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The State – a tool to defend the rule of the 1%
The Occupy movement that began in the US in 2011 coined the terms, the 1% and the 99%. The movement was evocatively referring to the existence of a ruling class, encapsulated in the term the 1% a – the super-rich elite that owns and controls the key global wealth, resources and means of production.
Review “The Entrepreneurial State” by Mariana Mazzucato
By Tim Heffernan Somewhere along the line, we’ve all heard these arguments in favour of capitalism: progress is…
The inspirational life of Eleanor Marx
By Christine Thomas (originally published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party in England and Wales) Eleanor…
Review of a classic: James Connolly’s “Socialism Made Easy”
By Cian Prendiville Probably Connolly’s most famous pamphlet, this short collection of articles is one that should be…
The inspiring victory that buried Thatcher
By Sean Malone In 1987 Margret Thatcher had wielded the axe of austerity for almost a decade by…
Socialism: the great anti-theft movement
By Cillian Gillespie In 1910, James Connolly wrote his celebrated pamphlet Socialism Made Easy. As well as playing…
Why capitalism must go
Last month something truly spectacular happened, writes Cillian Gillespie. More than ten years after it was launched by the European Space Agency, the Philae lander accompanied by the Rosetta spacecraft landed on a comet 310 million miles from Earth and subsequently sent back numerous images of its surface.
“All hail to the mob!” – The 99% is the force for change
The establishment fear of the anti-water charges protests was summed up by the Dailly Mail in a front page containing a picture of Ruth Coppinger TD and myself with the headline: “‘Democrats’ who believe in mob rule.”
Answering the lies- Liverpool’s battle against Thatcher
In the past number of weeks the Socialist Party has come under ferocious attack from the media and capitalist establishment generally in the context of the growing revolt against water charges. This attack has involved distorting our ideas and lying about our history.
Northern Ireland: 20 years after the ceasefires
In 1994, the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries called ceasefires. Four years later the Good Friday agreement was declared to mark the end of the ‘Troubles'.
