In the Gaeltacht there are 100 times more properties available on Airbnb than long-term rentals, and only a trickle of new houses. Tadgh Ó Cuill-Maonlaí argues that the Gaeltacht’s housing crisis is n...

Jason Hickel on the persistent inequalities of the post-colonial order

Palestine is not an isolated struggle. It is a node in a global system of imperial power, ecological violence, and colonial dispossession — and understanding it means tracing those connections across ...

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

A map of powerful states shows where power appears to sit, not how it is produced: class relations, capital, imperial hierarchy, and popular struggle shape both state power and relations between state...

On 30 October, dockworkers across the Mediterranean are going on strike to stop the imperialist war machine. We are launching a strike fund to support them.

Today, as millions go hungry under capitalist agribusiness model, we look back at the history of land reform and socialist cooperatives in East Germany, which transformed the social and economic reali...

At a moment of war, debt, corporate power, and technological dependency, five Chinese proposals reopen a long-suppressed question: what institutions are needed to make peace, sovereignty, and developm...

If some particular mineral of commercial use is found in a country of the global South, then multinational corporations from the North descend upon that country to extract this mineral wealth.

Today’s resurgence in U.S. imperialist interventions abroad and the concomitant so-called crisis of the “rules-based order” can be explained, Luís Eduardo Fernandes argues, through the category of “le...

Union membership in Ireland peaked at 62% – now fewer than one in four are members. SIPTU official Adrian Kane argues that, after the hollowing out of civil society, unions need to build back again th...

The North of Ireland has changed significantly since the 1990s. Commentary that treats Jamie Bryson and the Portadown Orange Lodge as the voice of Protestant society is erroneous and completely misses

On 30 October, dockworkers across the Mediterranean are going on strike to stop the imperialist war machine. We are launching a strike fund to support them.

Christian Noakes explores the deep connections between the Jamaican Black Power movement and the political roots of its renowned indigenous musical genre, reggae. From the history of capitalist oppres...

The African revolutionary Amílcar Cabral once asked his counterparts throughout the world at late-night strategy sessions: How did they wage successful armed struggle?

A list of the most useful books on energy, degrowth, ecofeminism, political ecology...

Learning to Study Capitalism from the Periphery

Professor Anwar Shaikh is professor of Economics in the Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science at The New School for Social Research in New York City, where he has taught since 1972. He is a...

Brazil votes on Sunday as its intelligence service alleges foreign interference, cyberattacks rise and economic warfare to defeat the popular forces behind President Lula da Silva.

https://youtu.be/3Kktb4wVBUw?si=cEJNmpcBd6zZwkwW In an interview with Bem Viver, a Brasil de Fato programme, during the sixth edition of the International Bioinputs School in Suzhou, China, Professor ...

Dockworkers' unions from over 35 ports across Europe and the Mediterranean declare their refusal to handle weapons and military cargo.

The late Palestinian painter Sliman Mansour left the world a precious legacy: an art whose symbolism mourns the longest exile of our age.

The wounds of slavery and colonial theft did not close with abolition or independence; they endure in global inequality, and their repair demands truth, law, memory and organised African power.

Five years ago, the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), in partnership with the Socialist Party of Zambia, launched one of the boldest literacy projects: bringing Brazilian popular education to rural an...

Ghana rejected the $109 million deal, citing concerns over the sharing of sensitive health data, financing obligations, and restrictions on Ghana’s regulatory authority over medical products. Presiden...

What is the rise of AI capital, and what does it mean for contemporary work, culture, and the ecological state of our planet? John Bellamy Foster dispels the myth of... READ MORE

The imperial drive to monopolise critical minerals unmasks a renewed strategic architecture: securing military and industrial supply chains enforces peripheral subordination, turning sovereign nations...

Dockworkers' unions from over 35 ports across Europe and the Mediterranean declare their refusal to handle weapons and military cargo.

As Trump attacked the ICC and Netanyahu faced a walkout at the UN, forty states gathered to put an arms embargo, protections for the Court and a new UN mechanism modelled on the Special Committee…

The Dollar as an Instrument of Imperialism

Capitalism produces death and waste on a genocidal scale.

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Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations.

A Global Call to Action. 29 September to 1 October. Join Us.

Imperialism, the denial of sovereignty that underwrites global capitalism, is the primary contradiction.

Irish support for Palestine was neither automatic nor inevitable. Pádraig Mac Oscair traces six decades of patient organising up to our present moment, where historically high solidarity meets histori...

Supporting on-the-ground organizing for peace and justice in the Global South

Through political essays and speeches from the final decade of his life, we revisit Lu Xun’s reflections on language, despair, internationalism, and the cultural soil needed for social transformation.

Sinn Féin spokesperson on Sport, Joanna Byrne TD, has said that the FAI board must reflect on their positions after their ultimate betrayal of Irish football and, most importantly, the people of Pales...

When Washington can freeze a nation’s money at will, the answer emerging from the recent summit in India was not a rival currency but a quiet rewiring of how countries pay one another.

Capitalism produces death and waste on a genocidal scale.

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Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community, and the confidence that tomorrow can b...

More than a hot summer, it’s a postcard from the future, before we have time to adapt…