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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.
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László Molnárfi is late to the party: a postmortem on dirtbag leftism
At 4:03am on September 27, László Molnárfi sent me a link to the Wikipedia page for ‘Dirtbag leftism’.
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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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How We Really Leave the State of Siege
Molnárfi’s call to overcome the state of siege that permeates the psychological landscape of Irish communism is a welcome one.
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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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László Molnárfi is Wrong About Antifascism
While I agree that the counterdemo was highly flawed and performative, I believe that Molnárfi goes in the wrong direction with his criticism.
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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.