By Upul Siriwardene, PRMI in Sri Lanka. 15 April 2025. US President Donald Trump raised the tariff on Sri Lankan exports to the US to 44 percent on 2 April. After the news, the Sri Lankan stock market’s overall price index fell by 349.84 units on 3 April, by 254.25 units on the 4th, and […]
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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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To mark the anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, we republish the Speech delivered at his grave by Frederick Engels March 17 1883. From the archive, 14 March 2025 On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone
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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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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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Review of the Oscar-winning No Other Land, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. By Peter McGregor, Socialist Party Ireland 6 March 2025 The Oscar-winning No Other Land, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is 92 minutes of documented ethnic cleansing and all that comes along
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First published by Socialist Party (Ireland), 26 January 2025 Warning: Article contains distressing details of r*** and abuse In a stunning decision, Gisèle Pelicot faced down the rape culture that demands survivors of abuse carry the burden of shame and secrecy. She refused a closed trial, demanding that the public join her in confronting the
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By Thomas Carmichael 21 June 2024 On the morning of 18 June 1984, a scorching summer’s day, 5,000 striking miners gathered on the fields overlooking the Orgreave Coking Works in South Yorkshire. It would become one of the most infamous days in Britain’s industrial history. The 1984-85 Miners’ Strike was at its height with the
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By Steph Lacey 4 September 2024 Directed by Margo Harkin, Stolen is a chilling account of the Magdalene Laundries, where Irish women and girls were sent for engaging in a sexual relationship that a parent or priest didn’t approve of, or more often, for being victims of rape, having a disability etc. – “social regressions” that didn’t
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By James McCabe 24 August 2024 It would be difficult to imagine an event that rocked the world and changed the course of history to the extent that the Russian Revolution did. No film could hope to capture the magnitude of such an upending of social relations. Plus, the quality of film footage from this
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First published in April 2024 mm Content warning: abuse, betrayal of survivors This statement is issued by the Faction to Defend Safeguarding, Socialist Feminism and Internal Democracy (SSFID), an organised opposition within the International Socialist Alternative (ISA). It was initiated by members in the ISA’s leading bodies who, since they were made aware of
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Over the weekend of August 31 and September 1, 2024, more than 130 people from 29 countries gathered to get the ‘Project for a Marxist Revolutionary International’ off the ground. The meeting focused on laying the framework for this new project, aimed at eventually reconstituting a new Marxist International. This process has become a pressing
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