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.

Boston Oi! band Battery March toured Ireland in September 2026. They spoke to Freda Hughes about politics, punk and resistance in modern day America.

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.

Today’s Leftists are strikingly negative in their attitude towards Artificial Intelligence – a departure from the technological optimism of their political forebears. Drawing on the works of Walter Benjamin, William Foley argues that the key to AI’s emancipatory potential lies in who owns it.

"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.

Deir Fiachra Mac Róibín go bhfuil córas oideachais na hÉireann ann chun daltaí a ullmhú mar oibrithe don chaipitleachas. Ó tháillí "deonacha" go strus na scrúduithe stáit, deir sé go bhfuil an córas éagórach ar an lucht oibre.