Reprint: College’s Overnight Guests Policy is About Sexual Suppression
László Molnárfi College’s dorm guests policy amounts to a de facto total ban on overnight visitors. This is the institution’s declaration of war on sexual …
Reprint: The Limits of Student Politics
László Molnárfi The strategy behind the student encampments was to light the embers of the pro-Palestine movement into a wildfire of tremendous force across society. …
Ultraleftism Ascendant: Understanding the Infantile Disorder
By Lex Von Klark In 2020, Massachusetts high school sophomore Calla Walsh made headlines for co-founding the Students for Markey campaign, a viral grassroots …
Reprint: The student movement must develop a liberatory political programme
László Molnárfi This year proves that united as students, we can pressure the authorities and win on important issues. We stopped fee increases, rent hikes, …
Reprint: Internationalisation of the academic sector cannot be separated from colonial legacy
László Molnárfi and Zaid Al-Barghouthi One certainty about the third-level education sector is that it would be substantially harder to maintain without international students who …
Totalising Politicisation: Voluntary Associationism in Student Unions for Progressive Ends
Totalising Politicisation: Voluntary Associationism in Student Unions for Progressive Ends
By László Molnárfi
Sunday 27 October 2024
The closed-shop student union model has paradoxically led to an all-encompassing, yet strikingly unrepresentative model of democracy. It is a mirage of liberal philosophy, presupposing a magical, homogenous and apolitical unity between students. It does the bidding of university managers and the state to ensure that student unions are devoid of radical politics and to turn them into organisations invisibly occupied by the liberal mainstream. In this article, I will make the case from a left-wing perspective to abolish mandatory membership and replace it with voluntary association.
Iran and Israel, A relationship of contradictions.
This piece will address an increasingly problematic narrative I have been seeing in news media and discussions in apparent “left-wing” outlets in the West, there is also a huge conglomerate of leftist content creators who promote these same narratives some examples to keep an eye out for are Richard Medhurst, ”SaveSheikhjarrahnow”, Max Blumenthal. They all share the following views that I write about in the following sentences. I am referring to the common misrepresentation of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a bulwark against imperialism and Western hegemony.
TCDSU is the most democratic it has ever been, via grassroots participation
It is with bewilderment that students read the Trinity News editorial dated 21st of March 2024 accusing the Students’ Union of authoritarian tendencies. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, this year has seen student participation in the union skyrocket and power decentralized, due to the grassroots structures that we created.
Maynooth’s New Strategic Plan Faces Protests By Postgraduate Workers
On Tuesday this week members of the Postgraduate Worker’s Organisation (The largest Postgraduate union in Ireland boasting well over 1000 members) protested the launch of Maynooth’s New Strategic Plan by the university’s president. This is part of recent escalations nationwide by the union, which has balloted across universities in support of Collective Action across various universities. It has proven itself a militant union in its actions, rapidly growing since the merger between PhDs’ Collective Action Union (PCAU) and the Postgraduate Workers Alliance Ireland (PGWAI).
Stand With Palestine
The following statement has been written by the editorial committee of Aontacht Media with the consultation of individuals involved with organising for Palestine.