The Essence of the Laclau-Mouffe versus Geras Debate
A specter is haunting orthodox Marxism – the post-Marxist specter of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.
A specter is haunting orthodox Marxism – the post-Marxist specter of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.
In this speech, I will elucidate the necessity and justification for civil disobedience, protest which falls outside the realm of liberal respectability, in reference to the Palestine solidarity movement which has swept the Irish nation in recent years.
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UCD student Basim Butt is being brought to a disciplinary hearing at UCD, after he stated at the pro-Palestine walkout on the 28th of November that “UCD supports acts of genocide”.
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The Left has come to understand politics as activism, activism as politics, and it is clear that a great flattening occurs through their being equated.
Critical Analysis
The Left and the Government have entered into the holy alliance of liberal respectability politics over Citywest.
Critical Analysis
The pro-Palestine protest encampment at University College Dublin (UCD) has entered its 70th day.
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.
A spectre is haunting the student movement - the spectre of apoliticism.
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.
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.