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The Party and the Ballot Box

Posted on 14/07/2019 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

The role of elections in socialist strategy The Legacy of the Republican Congress In 1934, in the shadow of a rising fascist threat in Europe, the Republican Congress was convened. This congress brought together the main elements of socialists, communists … Continue reading →

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On The Decline and Fall of The American Empire and Socialism

Posted on 26/01/2019 by S. Duncan

The Balance of forces domestically: contradictions among the people and intra-elite competition. “…the ultimate aim of this most bourgeois of all nations would appear to be the possession, alongside the bourgeoisie, of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat. In … Continue reading →

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What is Dogmatism and Why Does It Matter?

Posted on 21/03/2018 by Sylvia Smith

Introduction There has been a revival of the working class movement across the world. But if we want to seize this moment, we need to re-embrace scientific analysis. We have to avoid the errors that led us to the weakened … Continue reading →

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Why is my rent so high?

Posted on 31/10/2016 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

After a quick perusal of Daft.ie, it’s clear that the rental situation in Dublin is an absolute catastrophe. Rental prices have gone through the roof. Literally, garden sheds and one-car garages are now going for 900 Euro per month and … Continue reading →

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Review of Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh

Posted on 30/10/2016 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

For a long time, neo-classical economics has been the economic orthodoxy. Neo-classical economics is a patchwork of theories all with a general aim of demonstrating how production and distribution takes place under mediation of supply and demand. The theory came … Continue reading →

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Electoralism vs Abstentionism (Or: Why You Should Run For Office)

Posted on 26/08/2016 by Sylvia Smith

This article is a response to an article posted on The North Star by Sophia Burns, a comrade and fellow member of the Communist Labor Party titled Don’t Run for Office. It can be found here: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12742 The tradition of movements commonly grouped … Continue reading →

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The Bern Manifesto: Why I am Voting for Bernie Sanders

Posted on 27/01/2016 by Jerome Nikolai Warren

“A spectre is haunting America – the spectre of Bernie Sanders. All the powers of the political establishment have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: David Brock and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Forbes magazine and the Wall Street Journal, … Continue reading →

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Kautsky – The crisis of capitalism and the shortening of working time

Posted on 09/11/2015 by James O'Brien

By Karl Kautsky, translated by Noa Rodman In former times we had a saying in Germany: “When the peasant has money, everyone has.” That was perfectly true wherever the great majority of the people were peasants or farmers. It is no … Continue reading →

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What does a Corbyn victory mean?

Posted on 17/08/2015 by Sami El-Sayed

With Jeremy Corbyn’s grassroots campaign in full swing, we must decide how to best orientate towards the front runner for the Labour leadership position. There’s no doubting that his campaign has opened up the space for the left to break … Continue reading →

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SYRIZA: Was capitulation inevitable?

Posted on 17/07/2015 by Sami El-Sayed

With the events of January 25th, a shot rang out across Europe, which would reverberate across the world. The election of the first radical left government in decades, which threatened to challenge the rule of austerity in the European Union. … Continue reading →

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Between Ideology and Public Discourse

Posted on 14/07/2015 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

Our political and economic system is in crisis. There is a crisis of affordable housing, of decent jobs, of cuts to public services and cuts to social welfare provisions. There is a crisis of democracy which shows itself at every … Continue reading →

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Trotsky and TTIP: how secret diplomacy serves elite interests

Posted on 09/06/2015 by yeksmesh

“Secret diplomacy shall not be tolerated for a single moment during the negotiations. Our flyers and our radio service will keep all the nations informed of every proposition we make, and of the answers they elicit from Germany. We shall … Continue reading →

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America’s Palestinians: Lessons from The American Indian Experience for Israel-Palestine

Posted on 29/03/2015 by Jerome Nikolai Warren

Israel is often and repeatedly compared with South Africa, and a quick search on the Internet and in newspapers of the debate on the Occupied Territories, on UN Security Council resolutions condemning and calling and end to the occupation, and … Continue reading →

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SYRIZA and Memnosyne

Posted on 24/01/2015 by CornetJoyce

Lyndon Johnson observed that Greece was “the Vietnam of the 1940s.” He was referring, of course, to the “civil war” – i.e: the suppression of the Left- that followed the German occupation- the time when the Aegean became an archipelago … Continue reading →

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