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.

Aoife Kilbane McGowan is a Dublin-based writer and podcaster. She publishes a regular blog on Irish politics and youth issues at aoifekilbanemcgowan.substack.com. She hosts Left Out, a weekly news and political commentary podcast with Jenny Maguire.

Aryan Goyal is a researcher who studies the diffusion of hatered in contemporary India.

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.

Cian Prendiville is an organiser with RISE, a member of the People Before Profit Steering Committee, and one of the founders of KeepLeft.ie.

Ciarán O'Rourke is a poet and activist from Dublin. His most recent poetry collection, Prophetstown, is published by The Irish Pages Press.

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.

Drini Imami is a Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural University of Tirana.

Eoin Flaherty is a lecturer in Maynooth University's sociology department. He is interested in the connections between social equality and ecological sustainability, Marxist social theory, and long-term analysis of social change processes.

Is gníomhaí teanga sóisialach agus mac léinn é Fiachra Mac Róibín. Faoi láthair, tá sé ag déanamh taighde ar an tionchar atá ag bacainní teanga ar rannpháirtíocht shaoránach i mBoisnia agus i Heirseagaivéin.

Freda Hughes is a writer, music promoter & activist, active on the Irish punk & DIY scene since the 90s, running nights & managing venues. As Poster Fish Promotions 2011 she has hosted punk, ska and reggae nights, and promoted Traveller musicians.

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).

Harun Šiljak is an academic, author, and activist based in Dublin.

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.

Dr Jenny Farrell, a GDR-born lecturer living in Galway since 1985.

Since July 2016, Joe Dwyer has worked as the London office manager and senior researcher for a series of Sinn Féin abstentionist MPs. He contributes regularly to Sinn Féin’s An Phoblacht and Éire Nua publications. He is a member of Unite the Union.

Joe Kavanagh, OP, is a Dominican priest.

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.

Lisa Tilley teaches Political Ecology at SOAS and researches capitalist metabolism and anticapitalist organising in the world system. Her book Liberation Ecology is forthcoming with Pluto.

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).

Michael G Cronin lectures in the Department of English at Maynooth University. He writes on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Irish literature and culture, most recently in Revolutionary Bodies (2024) and Sexual/Liberation (2022).

Mícheál Mac Donncha is a Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor. He is former Lord Mayor of Dublin and former Editor of An Phoblacht.

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.

Nathan O’Byrne is a socialist activist and organiser with People Before Profit.

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.

Oisín Gilmore is an editor of An Clogán. In his day job he is Senior Economist at TASC (Think-tank for Action on Social Change). He is co-editor of Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left (Pluto Press: 2025).

Pádraig Mac Oscair is a writer from Donegal based in Dublin. His writing can be read in Flotsam, Socialist Voice and Mionlach or on substack.com/@pmacoscair. His first play, Muinín, was premiered at Oireachtas na Samhna in November 2025.

Paul Bowman is an anarchist and anti-fascist living and working in Dublin. A writer and independent researcher in the fields of ideology studies and social theory, he also aggregates the francophone anarchist press for the AInfos news service.

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.

Born in Shillong, north-eastern India, Siddhartha Deb lives in New York. He is an award-winning writer of ficiton and non-fiction.

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

Sneha Krishnan is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College. She researches how geographies of caste and colonialism shape experiences of girlhood.

Stiofán Ó Nualláin is a co-director at Trademark Belfast, the anti-sectarian and anti-racist unit of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

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.

Zoë Lawlor is chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign.