Capitalism is destroying the common heritage of our natural environment. Eoin Flaherty explores what we can learn from the ‘rundale’, a historic Irish system of collective land management, to build societies that are both more stable and more just.

As the National Children's Hospital saga sputters on, Ciarán O'Rourke revisits Saint Ultan's Children's Hospital and its guiding spirit, Kathleen Lynn — the socialist republican whose medical innovations transformed life for Dublin's working class.

Socialists often claim that ending class conflict makes politics redundant. But Marx never held this view, Bruno Leipold argues. By tracing his political transition from republicanism to communism, Leipold shows how republican ideals shaped Marx's vision for a post-capitalist society.

Ireland is a unique case in Western Europe – once colonised, its history of anti-imperialism aligns it more with the global south, even while it has risen into the global economic elite. Ireland now faces a choice: uphold solidarity or become a typical first-world power shaped by capital and empire.

Reclaiming the Irish language is the key to meaningful decolonisation and real self-determination, writes Ursula Ní Shionnain. Without full Irish language revival, our liberation in other spheres is incomplete.

From Aristotle to the Irish Proclamation, republican thought has long held tensions, Rachel Hammersley writes. Understanding its history reveals conflicts between liberty and equality, elitism and popular rule, virtue and interest, and how these shape its evolution today.