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 […]
Free Mahmoud Khalil! Free Palestine! End the genocide now! Read More »
By James McCabe, Socialist Party Ireland 14 March 2025 “We’re done catering to Wall Street; we’ll commit to the working man”. JD Vance uttered these words in his first speech as Trump’s vice-presidential candidate in July 2024. Fast forward six months, as Vance’s motorcade pulled up to the 10,000 square foot home of his billionaire
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By Serge Jordan, 11 March 2025 The last few days in Syria have brought another grim chapter in the country’s long and bloody crisis. More than 1,000 people, the majority civilians, were slaughtered in the western coastal areas in three days of clashes and sectarian revenge killings. The gruesome images of executions have flooded social
Syria: Horrific sectarian violence flares—but workers show another way Read More »
To mark International Women’s Day 2025 By PRMI supporters 7 March 2025 As International Women’s Day approaches, we face a world where the forces of misogynistic reaction are sharpening their knives. With Trump back in power, the most openly sexist, racist, and authoritarian administration in modern U.S. history has started an all-round assault on women,
IWD25: Urgent storm of feminist, anti-racist and socialist resistance is needed Read More »
By Militant Côte d’Ivoire 7 March 2025 “School is not a priority for the Ouattara government”. We have been repeating this since October. It became undeniable this Wednesday morning with the arrest of 33 teachers and the repression of their General Assembly in Abidjan. In October 2024, primary and secondary school teachers in Côte d’Ivoire observed
Government makes schools a reduced priority in Côte d’Ivoire Read More »
Patrice Lumumba occupies a very important place in popular consciousness in Congo. His legacy still resounds throughout the country, Africa and the world. By Michel Munanga PSL/LSP – Belgium. This article was first published 17 January 2021 Patrice Lumumba was initially drawn from that stratum of the Congolese population on which the Belgian colonizer relied
Lumumba: why popular hero of Congolese independence was assassinated Read More »
The political contours of the “Zeitenwende” – the “turning point – the geopolitical shift that is bringing down the once-successful model of German capitalism have been sharpened with the elections of 23 February. By Christian, Leuven 24 February 2025 With 16.4%, the social-democratic SPD achieved its worst result since 1890, when Friedrich Engels was still
German election: Instability and polarization strengthened Read More »
By Walter Chambers, 24 February 2025 So shocking was the speech delivered by US Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference that the Chair burst into tears during his closing speech. Barely a day has gone by since Trump’s inauguration in which a horrific new twist has not been added to the US’s
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By Drew Frayne, Socialist Party Ireland, 21 February 2025 Sixty years ago el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, known to the world as Malcolm X, was murdered. His life is a map of 20th Century racism, and resistance to white supremacy, in the US and across the world. The personal and political life of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, known
Malcolm X: Hard Lessons from his Life and Death Read More »
By Paul Smith, 14 February 2025 Trump’s threats accelerate Greenland’s push for independence, amid growing dangers of imperialist exploitation and conflict, as the Arctic becomes a new battleground in the global struggle for power, natural resources and strategic dominance. In 2019, Donald Trump’s proposal to purchase Greenland, reducing the future of the country to a
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PRMI reporters spoke to Cerys Keane, Organiser of the “Save nursing” campaign. 14 February 2025 When Britain’s National Health Service is facing a severe crisis, in part due to the lack of qualified staff, the decision by the management of Cardiff University to consider closing the Nurse training course, along with several other important programmes
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By Kate Quinlan, BIMM graduate, class of 2024, 14 February 2025 The proposed mass redundancies at BIMM Dublin, one of Ireland’s most prestigious music colleges, represent not just an attack on workers’ rights but the potential for a grave cultural loss. Lecturers at the institution, many of whom are accomplished musicians who have contributed to
BIMM Dublin: A cultural and educational crisis driven by capitalist greed Read More »
