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Echoes of ‘68: Student revolt rocks France & inspires millions

Oct 12, 2026
By Philipp Chmel A momentous youth revolt has swept France over the last three weeks. Despite unprecedented police violence, it is gaining in intensity and has sparked tremendous solidarity and active support from wide layers of the working class. This is creating an explosive mix of collective anger, hope and enthusiasm

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Review: The Story of Capital by David Harvey

25 Aug 2026
Reviewed by Chris Stewart Influential Marxist geographer and economic theorist, Professor David Harvey, has helped millions of people gain an understanding of how capitalism works through his many books and online lectures. In The Story of Capital, Harvey sets out to elucidate the central ideas of Marx’s Capital, explaining how they relate to what he calls the “capitalist totality” today.

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Minimum wage cut?

May 17, 2009
By Laura Fitzgerald EVERYONE KNOWS the minimum wage is paltry and it’s not enough to live on. Many young people up to the age of 20 have an even lower minimum wage, as miserable as €6.06 per hour for some. Yet each
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New mass party for working class needed

May 17, 2009
By Paul Murphy “IRELAND NEEDS a new political party; one that reflects the sweeping reassessments that have taken place in the past six months, ever since the old order started to disintegrate…. One popular, coherent movement is what is required.” Justine McCarthy,
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Warning – Water charges coming back!

May 17, 2009
By Councillor Mick Barry GREEN PARTY Minister for the Environment John Gormley spoke in April of the inevitability of the return of domestic water charges. With the Commission on Taxation due to report to the government in July on methods of increasing tax
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Divide & Rule: Labour & the Partition of Ireland