Reports from the Port
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 …
Critical Analysis
Endorsing Catherine Connolly is in the Student Interest
Endorsing Catherine Connolly is in the Student Interest László Molnárfi A spectre is haunting the student movement – the spectre of apoliticism. After years of …
How We Really Leave the State of Siege
How We Really Leave the State of Siege Critique of “Leaving the State of Siege” by László Molnárfi By Cillian Ó Riain Molnárfi’s call to …
Leaving the State of Siege
Leaving the State of Siege (The Left Has Become Too Stale) László Molnárfi I. Unity Conference There should be a conference organized for socialist revolutionaries …
László Molnárfi is Wrong About Antifascism
László Molnárfi is Wrong About Antifascism By Alexander Rakhmetov In his short article We Need Class Struggle And Organic Anti-Racism Not Performative Politics, my comrade, …
The Common Platform of Council Democracy
By Alexander Rakhmetov and László Molnárfi “Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!” – Otto von …
A Brief History of the Irish Student Anti-Austerity Movement Since The 2010s
László Molnárfi: “My piece ‘A Brief History of the Irish Student Anti-Austerity Movement Since The 2010s’ in which I trace the history of the student movement day-by-day in Ireland’s 32 counties from November 3rd 2010 until March 8th 2021.
I’ve catalogued 237 events (student actions, government decisions and political changes) relying on 280 sources, interviewed student radicals and then traced the ideological development of the student movement. There are graphs, pictures and a comparative analysis with the UK’s movement too!”
The Roots Party: A Grassroots Revolution for Rural and Working-Class Ireland
László Molnárfi
Thursday 27 February 2025
Founded three years ago, the Roots Party is an emerging political movement that aims to address the systemic neglect of rural and working-class communities in Ireland. Born out of grassroots frustration, it has steadily grown into a dynamic force advocating agrarian syndicalism, workers’ rights, and economic equality. In a recent interview, party representative April Maria Sheehan Corkery shared insights into its origins, core ideologies, and aspirations, painting a picture of a party committed to fostering change from the ground up.
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 …
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.