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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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Afghanistan – Obama’s war

Apr 18, 2009
By Paul Murphy THE HERALDED “change” from Bush’s foreign policy which Obama supposedly represents, is increasingly looking like a simple shift in geographical focus. The tactics used in Iraq – bribing past opponents and using a surge of military force – are
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G20 leaders have no solution to world crisis

Apr 18, 2009
By Kevin McLoughlin THE G20 Summit in London was said to be the start of the “fight back against the global recession”; and the creation of a “New Economic Order”. Some of the leaders even said it was “historic”. Does the G20
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Joe Higgins for Europe

Apr 18, 2009
THE EUROPEAN Election on 5 June is a brilliant opportunity for working people in Dublin to deliver a massive blow against the Fianna Fail/ Green Party government which is saddling them with savage burdens to pay for the crimes of the swindling
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