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 easy to compare this spring’s Irish fuel protests to the French 2018 Gilets jaunes movement. But the differences between the Irish blockaders and their French counterparts are more instructive than any superficial similarities.

A prosecutor who laughs at mentions of genocide. A judge who declares herself to be a sergeant major. The trial of the Ulm5 in Stuttgart is grotesque.