HIGHLIGHTS
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Alan Woods on Kautsky’s ‘Foundations of Christianity’
To mark the holiday period, we republish the following introduction by Alan Woods to a German edition of Karl Kautsky’s excellent text, The Foundations of Christianity. Originally published 23 September 2011, Alan outlines the significance of this work, and gives…
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Zelensky’s ‘historic’ visit to Ireland
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must have been terribly jet lagged by the time he arrived in Ireland last Tuesday as part of his European tour. Before landing in Dublin he had already met with the great and the good of…
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Introduction to the Brazilian edition of ‘The History of Philosophy’
“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” (Lenin, What is to be Done?) A voyage of discovery The news of the publication of my book, The History of Philosophy, in Brazil was a moment of great satisfaction for…
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The meaning of the ceasefire in Gaza
Celebrations have erupted in Gaza and Israel at the announcement by Trump on Truth Social that a peace agreement has been reached between Israeli and Hamas negotiators in Egypt. That there is celebration is understandable, especially for Gazans who until…
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The world turned upside down – a system in crisis
Momentous events are transforming the world as we know it. With Trump causing political and economic upheaval globally, the pent-up contradictions of nearly two decades of capitalist crisis and stagnation are reaching a fever pitch. From the genocide in Gaza…
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2025 Perspectives for the Irish Revolution
The following document was passed unanimously at a recent meeting of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Ireland. Here, we offer our perspective and analysis of the main trends that are shaping Irish politics and the class struggle. The…
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Britain: Palestine hunger strike – free the Filton 24! Lock up the real terrorists!
Eight political prisoners locked up for the ‘crime’ of fighting the genocide in Gaza have been starved and left to languish by the British state. If they die, the blame will lie with Starmer’s government and the system it upholds.…
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University College Dublin is complicit in genocide
Since its invasion of Gaza in 2023, Israel has murdered more than 66,000 Palestinians. And these are only the official figures, the reality is many times worse. Meanwhile University College Dublin, which proclaims itself a champion of human rights, is…
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Israel rampages towards catastrophe on the West Bank
Trump’s peace plan in Gaza is unacceptable to the Jewish supremacists in Israel’s ruling coalition. Even though it submits Gaza to an American-led occupation, even though it gives Israel a free hand to kill as it pleases, it holds out…
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Leon Trotsky on organisational problems
The following are translations of excerpts from Trois points c’est tout by Fred Zeller (1912-2003). Zeller, who, at the time, was the secretary of the Seine (Paris) Young Socialists and a sympathiser of the Trotskyist movement in the mid-1930s, visited…
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A 2008-themed Christmas this year
With no elections around the corner, the government has gifted Ireland a miserly budget this year. For many working families this will be the toughest Christmases since the peak of the 2008 crisis. Energy bills are up €500–700 more on…
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COP30: capitalism’s steady march towards climate catastrophe
The latest round of COP talks, which concluded last week, have ended just as we might have predicted. The final agreement contains no direct mention of fossil fuels whatsoever, and is a vague and purely voluntary commitment to ‘begin discussion’…
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