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UCD Palestine protest camp enters its tenth week
The pro-Palestine protest encampment at University College Dublin (UCD) has entered its 70th day.
Laszlo Molnarfi
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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.
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Endorsing Catherine Connolly is in the Student Interest
A spectre is haunting the student movement - the spectre of apoliticism.
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Reprint: What is a Revolutionary Party?
The capitalist mode of production, defined by the private ownership of the means of production and the anarchy of the market, relies on the exploitation of the working-class.
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Leaving the State of Siege
There should be a conference organized for socialist revolutionaries to unite with consensus decision-making against reformism which dominates the Left across the 32 counties.
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Reprint: All that Glitters is Not Gold
All that glitters is not gold. To avoid being swindled, a jeweller places the ingot under a microscope, on a scale and feels it, so as to identify whether it is real gold, or merely cheap copper coated with gold.
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Reprint: Ideological State Apparatuses in Ireland
The Irish political culture is, in general, one of complacency; from school to university to the workplace we are taught to toe the line and refrain from trouble-making.
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The Common Platform of Council Democracy
Anarchists and libertarian Marxists have significantly more in common than they have apart.
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Reprint: Catholic Priest, 81, amongst those hunger striking for Gaza in Brussels
A group of more than 50 people have registered to take part in a five-day hunger strike demanding justice for Gaza, organizers say.
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Reprint: The Machinic Enslavement of Programmatic Nihilism
Tensions that have been lying dormant within the revolutionary socialist left in Ireland are being activated by the worsening domestic and international situation of right-wing dominance.
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Reprint: General Principles of Communist Participation in the Student Movement
This year, the so-called Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Trotskyist group, decided to use its great wealth of political capital to push for three of its members to run for President of their local students’ unions.
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Reprint: We Need Class Struggle And Organic Anti-Racism Not Performative Politics
The counter-demonstration held by United Against Racism (UAR) against the large anti-immigration march on the 26th of April 2025 is rooted in a liberal worldview that misleads activists and workers alike.