March 2025

Turning back the clock: Trump launching war on progress

Trump during his inauguration

By Harper Cleves, Socialist Party Ireland. 31 March 2025 Trump’s resounding victory in the 2024 election was a huge blow to millions living in the United States and around the world. From promises of deporting ‘one million immigrants,’ to spending tens of millions of dollars in the final weeks of the election campaign on ads […]

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The Balkans shaken by anger as greed and corruption exposed

Army troops and tanks in Myanmar

By Walter Chambers, 27 March 2025 The massive protests that have already lasted six days in Istanbul, the city that sits on the edge of Europe are a vivid reminder of the volatility of this whole region. Yet the mainstream and even left media pay scant attention to what is happening.  Already this year barely

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Myanmar: embroiled in a complex and intensifying revolutionary and civil war

Protesters in Myanmar demand democracy

It’s now over four years since the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military overthrew the elected government. The coup met widespread resistance and escalated into a brutal civil war. PRMI reporters spoke to the Marxist journalist and historian Phyo Win Latt. 24 March 2025 PRMI: With the world news dominated by the Genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine,

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Serbian State fails to repress mass protest movement

Mass protest in Belgrade

By Charlie Jean McKeown, Socialist Party Ireland 27 March 2025 Serbia has been captured by anti-corruption protests for four months, which are student-led, and have now gained an untameable momentum. On 1 November last year, the newly “renovated” concrete canopy of Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 15 and severely injuring two more. The open

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Mexico: Need to unite against the ruthless bourgeoisie and imperialism

By Alternativa Socialista, PRMI in Mexico. 24 March 2025 Trump’s accession to the US presidency poses a threat to Latin America. And it breeds new dangers in a world plagued by war, climate change, the rise of the far right and the economic crisis.  The increase in tariffs on Mexican products, despite the rhetoric of

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Trump-fuelled Israeli genocidal war machine shatters ceasefire in Gaza

Building in Gaza ablaze after new Israeli attacks

By Serge Jordan, PRMI. 19 March 2025 In the dead of night, in the midst of Ramadan, the Israeli regime resumed its mass bombing of Gaza, obliterating any remaining semblance of holding onto what was already an increasingly precarious and threatened ceasefire. The claim that Israel merely targeted Hamas operatives in this new barrage of

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Spotlight on US Healthcare brutality in Luigi’s Shooting Trial

Luigi Mangione arrested in handcuffs

Daniel Green, PRMI in US. 17 March 2025 All across the United States of America, working class people of all political stripes have reached an unprecedented unity in support of the Robin Hood-like character of suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.  Luigi, who suffered from chronic pain and whose mother

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Free Mahmoud Khalil! Free Palestine! End the genocide now!

Mahmoud Khalil

Editorial from the latest issue of The Socialist, Ireland. 14 March 2025 As we go to print, Mahmoud Khalil, a key organiser of the Palestine solidarity encampment in Columbia University in New York City, has been arrested and is being threatened with deportation from the United States. This is despite possessing a Green Card, giving

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Karl Marx’s revolutionary ideas: The working class and struggle

Marx and Engels at work

14 March 1883 Karl Marx died. In truth, the validity of Marx’s theory of class struggle has been borne out by the history of the working-class movement. Eddie McCabe Socialist Party Ireland first published in 2018, 14 March 2025 Without the labour power of workers, capitalists can’t make profits. The system can’t function. Of all

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