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Expanding wars, economic stagnation, runaway financial speculation, widening social inequalities, political polarisation, ecological disasters and the ongoing threat to the biosphere – today’s world is shot through with uncertainties. A recent book, Epochal Crisis, by William I. Robinson argues that we are in a new period of worldwide capitalist instability
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Last July, Motaz Sassour GAA club, based in Ramallah, were due to travel to Ireland in an exchange backed by GAA members and players who have consistently helped support the club since 2023. They were supposed to do a tour of the country, visiting Thurles, Páirc Uí Chaoimh as well
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On 30 January, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released over 3 million pages of the so-called Epstein files in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law in November 2025 by Donald Trump, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. In total, around 3.5
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As people inside Iran grapple with the despair and collective trauma of the January massacre of the protesters and the waves of arrests and executions, the scale of state violence has become increasingly clear. At the time of writing, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), the total number
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On Thursday the Republic of Ireland football team drew Israel in the upcoming UEFA Nations League. Despite the fact that FAI membership voted to submit a motion to UEFA to ban Israel from its European club and international competitions last November, FAI leadership released a statement indicating that they intend
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Last month, Minister Darragh O’Brien declared that Ireland would miss its 2030 climate targets by half. The news that Ireland would have to pay billions in fines for this complete failure was totally unsurprising - it was clear that Ireland had been on course to miss these targets by a
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A sick system needs sick bastards to run it. This sentiment is as true in 2026 as it was in 1848, when Marx scathingly critiqued the nature of class struggle in France: “Since the finance aristocracy made the laws, was at the head of the administration of the state, had
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When shots rang out in Minneapolis on Saturday, January 24, killing beloved Veterans Administration nurse Alex Pretti, within minutes the horrible news reverberated through Chicago. Such are the expansive networks of solidarity that have developed throughout the U.S. in response to the vicious assault on our immigrant communities. This
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The intensification of mass killings, repression, and social suffocation in Iran has been accompanied by a parallel violence in discourse. This violence takes two dominant and seemingly opposed forms, each racist in its own way, each denying Iranians political subjectivity and the right to self-determination. One emerges from both
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You know something is really bad when Elon Musk creates a Grok app that can generate sexualized images. For all the talk of ‘empowerment’, there is a deep vein of sexism in our society, which Musk, of course, celebrates. But think of the ‘cleaners’ of social media – the people who
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Donald Trump described the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan president, as “like a television programme”. But the bombs that were dropping on key points in and around Caracas were very real. Fuerte Tiuna, for example, a military complex, and the La Carlota airfield are in the city centre, La
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Micheál Martin’s trip to the White House to wine and dine with Donald Trump for St Patrick’s Day is ‘not in doubt’ according to the Irish Independent. And why would it be? It’s not like the Irish establishment to let US imperialist ambitions get in the way