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Bend That Stick! Historicizing Lenin's What Is To Be Done?
An explainer of Lenin’s What is to be Done? (1902), its historical context and thoughts on the latent confluence between the anarchist and Leninist concept of the vanguard.
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The Traumatic Aftershock of Communist Defeat in the 20th Century
The 1917 October Revolution promised a world based on self-management, and real democracy for the masses, a liberated humankind. However, a tragic series of disagreements, betrayals and lost possibilities have engendered collective trauma.
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Why the Left Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power
One might expect, then, that the announcement of a bill to repeal the nuclear ban would be celebrated on the environmentalist left.
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In Defense of Political Maturity
“How you are right does not matter if you are right in the wrong way,” argue Leandra Tolentino and Owen Buchanan in this piece.
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What Should Aontacht Be?
Aontacht will be a newspaper which reports on events from a socialist perspective, as well as hosting theoretical debate. If Gript are the right-wing Gramscians, we will be the left-wing Gramscians.
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May Day Reflections, the 1990 Act Deflection and ICTU
Some repeat the old line that the 1990 industrial relations act is the primary barrier to trade union radicalism. This piece will countenance that and provide a concrete and workable framework that can be acted upon now and does not require the repealing of any legislation.
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A Bottle of Lightning
During my time in Brittany I participated in many Assemblées Générales (AG). In Rennes alone, arguably the capital for such organizing philosophy, during my time there were around 15 separate AGs ranging from...
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Je ne suis pas Marxiste
It has been said that my work is “politically schizophrenic”. What if, however, this was a guardrail against dogmatism?
The Time Between Lightning and Thunder
The Fuel Protests have ended for the most part. There are very few strains of the movement that are still continuing at this stage, some in local areas where a dozen or two small farmers continue to organise in the countryside...
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4 Protests and a Meeting
I remember when Irish antifascists were organised, disciplined, and when, if you were in trouble and being threatened by far-right thugs, you could call on them. That generation of antifascists emigrated, got burned out, or settled down since, and were never replaced.
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The Only Just War
Can we state that the war has been engaged in a moral manner? Is the bombing of schools moral? Is the economic warfare inflicted upon the civilian populace moral? The murder of children is simply anathema.
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On The Red-Brown Opportunists
Many on the left... have muddied the path forward and the movement as a whole. They make false assumptions about our proletariat, make right-wing caricatures of them, and in that delusion head endlessly rightward to satisfy this non-entity.