Critical Analysis

The crux of this is the need for not ten, hundred or even a thousand, but thousands and thousands of students to commit themselves to the strike, having understood that unless this happens, the pro-Palestine movement will disintegrate. There is no alternative. Once again: there remains one way to move the dial, and the dial must be moved, so will we move the dial?

A specter is haunting orthodox Marxism – the post-Marxist specter of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.

A series of articles on the concrete social forms which bring about revolution, and the lessons these forms pose to the Irish Revolution.

The structure of mankind has existed according to materialism, as suggested by Marx two centuries prior to writing this blog, for as long as humanity has existed. After all, it was not metaphysics nor God who developed the labour processes upon which labour was created, the very foundation upon which society rests. The first process of labour emerged from the animalistic nature of man, characterised by the will to hunt and gather.

Reprint of speech delivered on November 4th 2025 at the Free Speech Forum held in Trinity College Dublin, for archival purposes.

The Left and the Government have entered into the holy alliance of liberal respectability politics over Citywest. Those with the least purchase in society are hunted from both sides, a paranoiac pressure-cooker surrounding them from every corner, with no one left to champion their interests bar the Right. Their concerns ignored for months and months, the eruption of a riot triggers media frenzy, focusing on the unsavoury elements: rage- and hate-fuelled racist agitators.

A few weeks ago, the Community Action Tenants’ Union (CATU) issued a call for an all-Ireland national housing demonstration on July 5th. A few days later, a bloc of soft-left, social-democratic Dáil parties consisting of Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats, and People Before Profit called for housing demonstrations under the Raise The Roof (RTR) campaign, a campaign connected to many Irish trade unions which has sat dormant for many years. The timing of this call is no coincidence.

Those keeping track of British politics as of late are likely familiar with the emergence of Your Party. For those not familiar with it, it is, in essence, a grassroots organisation spearheaded by MPs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn, along with a few others in Parliament or otherwise. Ideologically, the organisation committed itself to the growing trend of Democratic Socialism. Its origins are hardly surprising. Starmer’s Labour edges ever rightward, and the party’s left wing has functionally ceased to exist.

When I attended a pro-Palestinian protest at Shannon Airport last year, I had immediately noticed in the air a confrontational attitude among the protestors. The police had quartered us off from the airport proper with a line of officers and metal fencing. However, the crowd had grown to such a size, and the number of police was so passive, one could’ve hoped we would challenge their presence.