A new ‘holocaust’ is perhaps the only term that accurately characterises the horror we’re now seeing in Gaza. From the very beginning of this genocide, the denial of food, fuel and water has been used as a weapon of war against two million Palestinians living in the world’s largest concentration camp.
Polls show a new left formation could pose a real threat to Labour. 140,000 have signed up in the first 10 hours. Labour’s 2017 vote under Corbyn’s leadership was 3.2 million more than Starmer’s ‘landslide’ 2024 election. Interestingly, before it has even been formed, polls indicate somewhere between 10-18% of voters said they would support the new party.
While the world is burning, the rulers of this capitalist hellscape continue to carry out, support and enable the ongoing genocides in Palestine and Sudan.
Frantz Fanon wrote with conviction. His statements were bold, categorical and challenging. His voice still rings out clear today, whether raised in anger against racism or in support of peoples struggling for freedom.
For Marxists, any outlook is conditional. Many economic, political and social factors arise and interact with each other. At any given time, it is crucial to evaluate and adapt the perspectives that have been mapped out, because it is these that provide the guide for revolutionary action. A fundamentally different development from the one anticipated can occur, and clinging to dated perspectives is a mistake for which there is always a heavy price to pay. Unfortunately, this is what happened with the Fourth International.
The elephant in the room is the crisis at the heart of the trade union movement; many of its leaderships are affiliated with opposition parties that have a record of embracing pro-corporate policies themselves, and treat these strikes as symbolic pressure tactics —not stepping stones toward a sustained and escalating movement.
23 June 2025 A sense of outrage, horror and dread is how the majority of people will feel at the news of Trump’s bombing of
18 June 2025 Since last week, we have been following the exceptional event of the Caravan of Steadfastness, which set out from Algiers and
18 June 2025 The decision by Netanyahu to escalate the brutal genocide of Gaza by launching new and unprecedented attacks on Iran has dramatically increased
18 June 2025 After 620 days of aggression and genocide in Palestine, the genocidal state of Israel drove the region further into despair and instability
By Yash Sinojia, Socialist Party Ireland. 9 June 2025 The news hit like a gut punch: Indeed, the global job-search giant withdrew its sponsorship from
By Eddie McCabe & Donal Devlin, Socialist Party Ireland. 9 June 2025 Palestinian socialist and writer Ghassan Kanafani described the Palestinian struggle as “a cause
