News
Well For Some! FFG Votes to Spend €400k on Wine
Well for some! In a time when the poor are eternally told that their welfare is simply not in the budget, the Oireachtas has voted to spend €400,000 on its own brand of wine.
Alexander Rakhmetov
Critical Analysis
A Response to a Fellow Anarchist's Letter
I remain a firm believer in the publication’s dual purpose as a theory magazine not dominated by parties and as a news publication that provides a leftist perspective to the common man. Like you and many other anarchists, I want it to be committed to a politics of care and need.
Critical Analysis
The Kids Are Alright: Pupils Overwhelmingly Reject PSNI In School
Most students in a Catholic school in west Belfast have explicitly refused to attend a speech by the chief constable of the PSNI, Jon Boutcher. The students of the North of Ireland have understood that it is right to rebel and wrong to lick boots. May the rest of us learn from them.
Critical Analysis
A Stern Critique of Tommy Hickey
A disgraceful article was published last month by Tommy Hickey arguing that the militant left is as bad as the militant right.
Despite Promise to Wait For Appeal, Gardaí Evict Tenant
Just before 9 AM on the 27th of April, a man from the Dublin City Council arrived outside of a home in the Fairview-Marino area with several guards and a court order for an eviction.
Critical Analysis
War in Iran
We awoke last morning to the United States of America invading Iran and greeted the evening with the news that Khamenei is dead. It has legitimated this using the standard clichés of bringing democracy to the Middle East.
Critical Analysis
Reports from the Port
Here are two articles by eyewitnesses, one by Marxist László Molnárfi and the other by anarchist Alexander Rakhmetov, analysing the attempted blockade of Dublin Port by pro-Palestine activists on October 4th 2025, the ensuing violent suppression by Gardaí, and the next steps for the movement.
Critical Analysis
László Molnárfi is Wrong About Antifascism
While I agree that the counterdemo was highly flawed and performative, I believe that Molnárfi goes in the wrong direction with his criticism.
Critical Analysis
The Common Platform of Council Democracy
Anarchists and libertarian Marxists have significantly more in common than they have apart.