The Eight of May was the Fête de la Victoire in France. It was also the day of François Hollande’s first public appearance as president-elect. The right-wing Le Figaro featured photographs of ‘deux presidents sous l’Arc de Triomphe’, in…
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The two party system in disarray
Yesterday’s parliamentary election results in Greece are the first sign that the entire political system in that country is in the process of recomposition. They signal the shattering and probably final destruction of the two…
Resistance is Fertile
A new wave of struggle has emerged since the 2008 crisis of capitalism began. New forms of organisation have also emerged as a new generation enters the struggle. In an article originally published in the…
George Orwell: Anything But a Saint
This year’s centenary of George Orwell’s birth* at Motihari in Bengal, India on 25 June 1903 has seen a marked upturn in interest in both his writing and in the man himself. Penguin have republished…
For the Times They Are a Changing
Bob Dylan could have been writing about these times when he composed the lyrics ‘the times they are a changing’. This was never so apparent than on a recent trip to the US to meet …
Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci
Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci “The concepts of revolutionary and internationalist, in the modern sense, are correlated to the precise concept of state and class: a poor understanding of the state means a…
Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy
Book Review: Hilary Wainwright, Reclaim the state: experiments in popular democracy. London / New York / Calcutta: Seagull (2nd edition – 2009). A new book by Hilary Wainwright is usually a significant event: Beyond the…
The Kindest Revolution?
A review of Ghost Estate by William Wall, Published by Salmon Poetry 2011 ‘…& are we supposed to sympathise when the gentry find themselves in the same boat or plane as everyone else?’ From ‘Job…
Leading With The Chin
The progressive political parties represented in the Dáil, Assembly and Council chambers around the country have been slow to understand the potential opened up by the Occupy movement. During the recent Presidential election, with all…
We have a dream: towards a Euro-Mediterranean social strike
The following was first published in Spanish by Madrilonia, a Madrid-based blog that writes about and participates in social movements. Madrilonia has been involved in the 15-M movement, which began with the mass protest organized by Real…
Social Movements Conference at NUI, Maynooth: Saturday Nov 26th
“New agendas in social movement studies” Social Movements Conference NUI MAYNOOTH, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26TH, 9.30 – 6.15 About the conference This conference brings together 21 researchers from Ireland, Britain, Italy,Belgium and the US working on movements ranging from alternative food movements to…
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class – Part One
This is the first of a three part analysis of Owen Jones’ book Chavs. The second part will be published tomorrow, with the concluding part appearing on Thursday. All three can be read here. Book…
What Extra Baggage Do Words Have? A Review of Embassytown and Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy
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