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Brian O’Boyle, writing in Rebel, states that “Trump’s MAGA project is designed to reassert the power of a declining hegemon. It is an attempt to make the world ‘great again’ for the US ruling class.” Vis-à-vis the US attack on Venezuela, the US ruling class, O’
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The Lucas Plan: As a Worker’s Alternative Strategy “There cannot be industrial democracy until there is a real shift in power to the workers themselves.” (Lucas Plan, 1976) In January 1976, a collective known as ‘The Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Steward Committee’ published their alternative workers’ contingency strategy in
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On the Claire Byrne show last month, Jim O’Callaghan was asked if it would be an “acceptable practice to lift people off the streets who shouldn’t be here”, in a manner similar to the deportations being carried out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. “We’re nowhere
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The last 25 years in Denmark have seen growing racism and a deterioration in welfare and social security for the vast majority of the population. Racism and neoliberal policies have gone hand in hand and complimented each other. In the beginning the far right was isolated In the late 1990s,
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On February 28, Donald Trump launched his bombing campaign in Iran. Within 24 hours the US had managed to kill most of the country’s political leadership, including the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. However, it is rapidly becoming clear that Trump’s ‘forever war’ will likely backfire. Bombing Iran
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Three days into a catastrophic bloodletting that looks set engulf the whole of the Middle East, the Trump White House finally offered a rationale for its ‘pre-emptive’ turn to war: the US “knew there was going to be Israeli action,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained after a briefing
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February 2026 marks the centenary of the death of Larisa Reisner. A hundred years on, Reisner remains one of the most extraordinary revolutionaries to emerge from Soviet history. Her life was one of a kind and yet unmistakably of its time. Her politics were shaped by the last feverish years
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Minnesota. Mni Sóta Makoce. The North Star State. L'Étoile du Nord. The Conscience of the United States. Minnesota has a long and progressive history of resistance. From the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters truckers strike, to the American Indian Movement (AIM) being birthed out of Little Earth in south Minneapolis,
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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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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