Critical Analysis
How can a student in Gaza be asked to provide complex and unrealistic documents and papers, while we are living under the weight of a war and genocide that has stretched on for three years?
Critical Analysis
The divisions in People Before Profit have a material base and a political significance for the socialist movement.
Critical Analysis
The Western Left must stop backing Zelensky's conscription machine. Ukraine is not a sovereign country. The people of Donbass, terrorised by Kiev, should be left alone; the real task is decolonising a Brussels-controlled Ukraine from IMF/EU/US rule and its far-right collaborators.
Critical Analysis
Far from a reaction to Russian intervention in Ukraine, the rise of the far right has been the opposite: the West's use of ethnonationalists as its vanguard in the 2013-14 Maidan coup caused the civil war in the East, and only then drew in Russia.
Critical Analysis
“I collect bottles and cans to save up enough money to postpone being homeless into next spring instead of in the winter”: Damhnaic, a man in his 30s, is one of many people pushed into waste-picking by a Government that pretends struggle behind closed doors is no struggle at all.
Critical Analysis
It is exhausting to have worked so hard for something and then be stopped by a document you simply cannot obtain.
Critical Analysis
PBP has enjoyed modest success as a loose alliance. But if we really want revolution and socialism it must aspire to become a programmatically rooted mass party of the working class. There is a siege mentality within the SWN which must be opposed.
Critical Analysis
If you are reading this in Ireland, you have more power over the next two weeks of my life than I do. My bag has been packed since June. Ireland, you tell me when.
Critical Analysis
Wherefore art thou student organisers? Is this what the movement has to offer now? Petitions and official negotiation routes? Support from elected officials is helpful, but it does nothing in comparison to the wrath of a young mob disturbed.
Critical Analysis
The familiar script. A mysterious incident followed by an accusation levelled at Russia. Then, inevitably, the call to open wallets for more weapons, more sanctions, more militarisation, more solidarity with whatever the current emergency happens to be.
Critical Analysis
I was given a place at Trinity College Dublin. I did everything I was asked to do. But getting admitted was not enough.
Critical Analysis
Waving flags and making passionate speeches on international stages means nothing when an administration hides behind rigid red tape to keep an admitted Palestinian engineer out and countless other students.