Andrew Flood is an Irish anarchist-communist organiser and writer. A key figure in the Workers Solidarity Movement from the early 1990s to its 2021 dissolution, he has published widely on anarchism, social movements and collective struggle.

Ben Lewis is a Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield. He researches and translates German-language Marxism between 1891 1933. He founded Marxism Translated, and sits on the editorial board for Rosa Luxemburg's Collected Works in English.

Cian O’Callaghan has been a TD for Dublin Bay North since 2020 and Deputy Leader of the Social Democrats since 2023. A former Fingal councillor and mayor, he has also been acting party leader and serves as the party’s finance spokesperson.

Claire Mitchell, a Belfast writer and researcher, explores everyday politics in Northern Ireland through interviews, memoir, and archives. Author of three books, including The Ghost Limb (2022), she also writes essays, journalism, and prose.

Clare Daly has been active in socialist and leftwing politics for over 40 years. She has been Students' Union President in DCU, an airport shop steward, Anti-water tax leader, Fingal County councillor, TD and Member of the European Parliament.

Deaglan O Mochain is a filmmaker and Irish language activist based in Derry. He was an IRA prisoner between 1989-97, and completed a PhD on prison resistance strategies on his release.

Gerry Adams has been a republican activist for over 60 years. He served over four years in prison between 1972 and 1978. He subsequently led Sinn Féin from 1983 to 2018, serving as MP (1983–92, 1997–2011), MLA (1998–2010) and TD (2011–2018).

Jack Sheehan is an Irish writer, historian, and middle school teacher living in New York. He has written for the Baffler, the Washington Post, Tribune, and the New York Times, among others. You can find his work at jackdsheehan.com.

Joshua Muthi is a writer and recent graduate of History and Politics at University College Dublin.

Kieran Allen was central to the founding and development of People Before Profit and is a prolific author, with works including The Politics of James Connolly, The Celtic Tiger, and Tax Haven Ireland.

Margaret Ward is a feminist historian and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. Her most recent book is Rebel Women (2024). She is also the author of Unmanageable Revolutionaries (2021) and Fearless Woman (2019).

Martina Anderson, Sinn Féin’s National Training and Development Coordinator, was an MEP (2012–2020) and MLA (2007–2012, 2020–2021). A former IRA volunteer, she served 13 years in prison (1985–1998).

Mitchel McLaughlin (b.1945) is a veteran Sinn Féin activist and politician from Derry. A former MLA for Foyle and South Antrim, he was the first nationalist Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Odrán de Bhaldraithe is a Belfast-based author, who has written on colonialism, culture, and socialist republicanism. His book Neglect in the North of Ireland examines systemic under-investment in health, housing, and politics, under British rule.

Petra Matić, artist and activist from Zagreb, explores cultural transformation, social justice, diaspora narratives and anti-colonial practices. A former migrant worker in Dublin, she was an IMMA resident artist in 2025.

Philip Pettit, originally from Ballygar in Co. Galway, is a leading political philosopher. Professor at Princeton and at ANU, he is known for reviving modern republican political thought in his landmark book Republicanism (1997)

Rachel Hammersley, Professor of Intellectual History at Newcastle University, writes on 17th–18th century political thought. Her books include James Harrington: An Intellectual Biography (2019) and Republicanism: An Introduction (2020).

Rafael Mendes is a Brazilian-Irish poet published in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Wasafari, gorse, and Poetry Salzburg Review. His pamphlet The Migrant Dictionary co-won the Ireland Chair of Poetry Pamphlet Series 2025.

Roibeard Mac an Bheatha is a researcher and writer on race, equality, and self-determination, based in Edinburgh. With Bill Rolston he co-authored Anois ar Theacht an tSamhraidh: Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution.

Sarah Greavu is a curator, writer and organiser. Based in Derry, she is the director of Fire Station Artists’ Studios.

Sara Muthi is a writer, the Curatorial Fellow at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and a visiting lecturer in Fine Art at TU Dublin.

Shane OCurry is a political activist who has worked in human rights in the north and south of Ireland for 25 years.

Sinéad Mercier is an activist and academic in law and environmentalism, lecturing at UCD and researching energy law, just transition, and local resistance. She has worked with the Green Party, Irish Human Rights Commission, and trade unions.

Dr. Ursula Ní Shionnain is an Irish-language activist and former Republican prisoner. She has authored several Irish-language plans, and runs a family support service in Ráth Chairn Gaeltacht while raising her daughter in Irish.

Vincent Bevins is a U.S. journalist and author of The Jakarta Method (2020) and If We Burn (2023). He has worked as reporter and foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, and Washington Post.

William Clare Roberts teaches political theory at McGill. He authored Marx's Inferno (2017), which won the Deutscher Prize, and wrote the afterword to a new translation of Capital. He is working on The Radical Politics of Freedom.

William Foley is a postdoctoral researcher based at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is currently researching the spread of religions, the evolution of inequality, and the role of luck in life outcomes.