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From Anglo-Normans to American Billionaires: Continuities of Colonial Extraction in Ireland
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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