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“Derry – This was murder”: 50 years since Bloody Sunday
By Sean Burns Sunday, 30 January 1972 saw one of the bloodiest and most callous atrocities committed during…
‘Better to rust out than to wear out’: The radical legacy of Mary Ann McCracken (1770-1866)
By Emma Ward The inscription, ‘Wept by her brother’s scaffold’, was the sole memorial on the previously unmarked…
United States: The history of Critical Race Theory and the debate surrounding It
By Quinn Angelou-Lysaker, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Debates have broken out in workplaces and…
“Stepping stone” to nowhere: 100 years since Anglo-Irish treaty
By Manus Lenihan On the night of 5-6 December 1921, five men piled into a taxi at Downing…
Lessons from the First Intifada: When mass struggle shook the Israeli regime
In May 2021, as Gaza was under another murderous assault by the Israel state, a major wave of…
Review: Arise: Power, Strategy & Union Resurgence
Arise: Power, Strategy & Union ResurgenceBy Jane HolgatePluto Press, 2021 Reviewed by Michael O’Brien While being a historical…
How capitalism oppresses women
By Grace Fors, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) What does it mean to be…
Review: What Britain did to Nigeria by Max Siollun
Hurst Publishers, 2021 Reviewed by Manus Lenihan The Black Lives Matter movement in the United States last year…
40 years since the end of Hunger Strikes: How state repression could be fought
By Sean Burns The hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the events preceding them, was one of the many…
Class Struggle: How is change won?
By Grace Fors, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Today’s generation is growing up surrounded…
