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Oil and gas lobby ramps up pressure on Labour
The oil and gas monopolies are ramping up pressure on Labour to expand fossil fuel drilling in the North Sea, using the Iran war as an excuse. This isn’t to lower bills or boost national security, but to reap enormous profits at the expense of the planet.
The Easter Rising of 1916
The Easter Rising of 1916 is one of the most inspiring events in Irish revolutionary history. The rising saw Europe’s first Red Army, the Irish Citizen’s Army, fight the forces of British Imperialism on the streets of Dublin and sacrifice their lives for the cause of a free Ireland for the Irish workers and poor. When Lenin got news of the Rising, he criticised those who wrote it off as a ‘putsch’ saying ‘Whoever expects a ‘pure’ social revolution will never live to see it. Such a person pays lip-service to revolution without understanding what revolution is.’ These comments still […]
Trump, Starmer, and the madness of capitalism
Reason is becoming unreason, as the corridors of Number 10 look increasingly like the inside of an asylum. Keir Starmer finds himself in the straitjacket of capitalism – and this madness is preparing the way for social explosions and revolutionary upheavals.
