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The UK election of 12 December 2019: what can the left learn?

17/12/2019 By Conor Kostick 2 Comments

Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London

With the decisive victory of Boris Johnson over Jeremy Corbyn, the left needs to come to terms with what was a crushing defeat for a political agenda that on paper was much closer to a radical socialist one than anything that has been on offer to the UK electorate for decades. In the immediate aftermath […]

Filed Under: All Posts, Irish Political Parties

Derek Mahon, A Poet of The Left

14/12/2019 By Ciarán O'Rourke 1 Comment

Derek Mahon poet

By Ciarán O’Rourke ‘I know the simple life / Would be right for me’, wrote Derek Mahon in Ovid in Tomis, ‘If I were a simple man.’ A glad complexity, it seems, is the order of the day; a dynamic interweaving of expression and insight evident throughout Mahon’s work, lending the poems both a clarity […]

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Bolivia’s Coup of November 2019: where did it go wrong for Evo Morales?

14/11/2019 By admin Leave a Comment

Evo Morales waving the Whipla

On Tuesday 12 November 2019, Jeanine Anez, a fierce, right-wing opponent of socialist Evo Morales, took power in Bolivia with the backing of the police and the military. This represents a setback for the working class and indigenous people of Bolivia (and beyond). It was a setback that could have been avoided and the main […]

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Review: Ken Loach’s ‘Sorry We Missed You’

13/11/2019 By John Flynn Leave a Comment

Ken Loach

By John Flynn The redoubtable Ken Loach has followed up his Palm D’Or winning I, Daniel Blake with a devastating drama about a family struggling to make ends meet in a precarious working environment. Along with his longtime screenwriter Paul Laverty, Loach has crafted a very necessary film about working life for so many people […]

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Google and Facebook workers’ protests grow

25/10/2019 By Conor Kostick Leave a Comment

Facebook Strike Dublin

Back in the late 1980s, after the defeat of the air traffic controllers in the USA and the miners in the UK, a great many activists gave up on their hopes that working class people could lead a revolt against capitalism. Andre Gorz, for example, had written a book, Adieux au proletariat (Farewell to the […]

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