An Gorta Mór: The Legacy of the Irish Famine
Every place is unique in its own way, but Ireland is one of the only parts of the world that has fewer people today than it did 175 years ago. In 1845, it had a population of over 8.2 million. Seven years later, more than one million people had died of starvation or disease. By […]
War in Ukraine, The New Era and the Crisis of Capitalism
The war in Ukraine conclusively demonstrates that we have entered a new era in world relations, a shift developing since 2007–09 and further deepened by the COVID pandemic. What are the characteristics of this post-neoliberal era? A key feature is clearly rising imperialist militarism accompanied by the whipping up of nationalism and a rapid break-up […]