A new Irish political magazine. Socialist and republican perspectives on Politics, Economics and Culture. Subscribe to receive the first issue, The Republic.

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Eight hundred years after Raymond Le Gros plundered the Blackwater for cattle, Mark Zuckerberg has bought the Norman conqueror's demesne. Alan O’Gorman on how Ireland's new overlords continue a long tradition of colonial extraction and environmental destruction. New article 👇️
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When the Orange Order was granted permission to walk down Garvaghy for the first time in 28 years, Emma Quinn McArdle knew she had to be there with the people of the Road. What followed was a collision of fear, defiance, hope, craic, exhaustion and bravery. New article 👇️👇️
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In the Gaeltacht there are 100 times more properties available on Airbnb than long-term rentals. Tadgh Ó Cuill-Maonlaí argues that the Gaeltacht’s housing crisis is not just a result of the national shortage but an assault on the material base of Gaeilge itself. New article 👇️
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Union membership in Ireland peaked at 62% – now fewer than one in four are members. SIPTU official Adrian Kane argues that, after the hollowing out of civil society, unions need to build back again through auto-enrollement and other means. Read on anclogan.ie👇️
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Oi! punk, originally referred to as new punk or real punk, emerged in the late 70s to counter the commercialisation of punk rock. Oi! is a battle cry against the system, unreservedly working class and grounded in everyday struggles. New article on anclogan.ie. 👇️
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Some on the left have argued that AI will accelerate our liberation. Sneha Krishnan and Lisa Tilley write that such arguments mistake statistical patterning for intelligence, and miss the material cost of water, minerals and expropriated labour. 👇️ 👇️ 👇️
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Irish support for Palestine was neither automatic nor inevitable. Pádraig Mac Oscair traces six decades of patient organising up to our present moment, where historically high solidarity meets historically high barriers to change. Read now on anclogan.ie
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Today’s Leftists have strikingly negative attitudes towards AI – a departure from the technological optimism of our political forebears. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, William Foley argues that the key to AI’s emancipatory potential lies in who owns it. anclogan.ie/must-the-machine…
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The GDR is remembered in the West as a surveillance state and nothing else. Jenny Farrell, who grew up there, argues that the erasure is deliberate, and that what was destroyed after 1990 is precisely what made an alternative social order thinkable. 👇️ 👇️ 👇️
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"It's nice to see a work of art win", John Banville said on winning the Booker Prize. Michael G Cronin traces a line from that remark to the neoliberal creative economy, and from there to Banville's defence of Israel’s brutality against Palestine. New article for An Clogan 👇️
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