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Warning from Citywest: How the Left Let the Right Set the Agenda
The Left and the Government have entered into the holy alliance of liberal respectability politics over Citywest.
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The Case of CATU v Social Democracy
A few weeks ago, the Community Action Tenants’ Union (CATU) issued a call for an all-Ireland national housing demonstration.
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Lessons of Your Party
Those keeping track of British politics as of late are likely familiar with the emergence of Your Party.
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Liberal and Revolutionary Protesting
When I attended a pro-Palestinian protest at Shannon Airport last year, I immediately noticed in the air a confrontational attitude among the protestors.
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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.