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Irish Marxist Review

CONTENTS BY ISSUE
(2012 – present)
(under construction)

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Vol. 1 No. 1, 2012
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Published in association with the Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)

Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Our democracy and theirs: reflections on the Egyptian revolution, by Ann Alexander [ PDF ]

Marxism and Trade Unionism, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Women and Austerity, by Deirdre Cronin [ PDF ]

Sinn Fein in Government, by Sean McVeigh [ PDF ]

Epilogue: the 15-M movement since the summer, by Andy Durgan & Joel Sans [ PDF ]

The age of extremes: new developments in climate change, by Owen McCormack [ PDF ]

Three Poems, by Connor Kelly [ PDF ]

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Vol. 1 No. 2, 2012
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Published in association with the Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)

Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Recession and the New Resistance, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Economic Crisis: Austerity and Privatisation in Healthcare in Ireland, by Peadar O’Grady [ PDF ]

Austerity, Capitalism and the Restructuring of Irish Higher Education, by Marnie Holborow [ PDF ]

James Connolly and the Irish Labour Party, by Donal Mac Fhearraigh [ PDF ]

Neoliberal Belfast: Disaster Ahead? by Brian Kelly [ PDF ]

Marx and Self Emancipation, by James O’Toole [ PDF ]

Faster, Higher, Stronger: A Critical Analysis of the Olympics, by Gareth Edwards [ PDF ]

Letter from France, by Lorcan Gray [ PDF ]

The Politics of the Socialist Party, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

SYRIZA and the Rise of Radical Left-Reformism in Europe, by Donal Mac Fhearraigh [ PDF ]

Book Reviews

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Vol. 1 No. 3, September 2012
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Published in association with the Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)

Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW,
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
WILL SHANNON
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Crisis in the Eurozone: Between Austerity and Default, by Sinéad Kennedy [ PDF ]

Keynesianism and the Crisis, by Brian O’Boyle [ PDF ]

In Defence of Leninism, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Sweden’s welfare state, myths and realities: a Marxist analysis of the ‘Nordic, by Madeleine Johansson [ PDF ]

Fiddling while Rome burns, a report from Rio, by Martin Empson [ PDF ]

Alain Badiou’s Theory of Revolutionary Change, by David Brancaleone [ PDF ]

Sean O’Casey: A Politician who couldn’t help being a Writer, by Paul O’Brien [ PDF ]

Book Reviews

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Vol. 1 No. 4, November 2012
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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW,
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
WILL SHANNON
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

How The Rich Wage a Class War, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Prostitution: The New ‘Abolitionism’, by Sinéad Kennedy [ PDF ]

Can a Meritocratic Education System Deliver Equality?, by Tina MacVeigh [ PDF ]

The Politics of Evolution, by Dave O’Farrell [ PDF ]

Racism in Ireland: From Boom to Bust, by Sara O’Rourke [ PDF ]

100 Years of the Ulster Covenant, by John Lyons [ PDF ]

William Thompson: The First Irish Socialist, by Pat O’Sullivan [ PDF ]

Book Reviews

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Vol. 2 No. 5, February 2013
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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW,
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
WILL SHANNON
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial: Where we are at, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

1913 The Great Lockout: A Survey, by Paul O’Brien [ PDF ]

James Connolly in the Bureau of Military History, by Conor Kostick [ PDF ]

Back to the Armed Struggle? The Dissidents Analysed, by Colm Bryce [ PDF ]

The State of Loyalism, by Goretti Horgan [ PDF ]

The Marikana Massacre and Lessons for the Left, by Mary Smith [ PDF ]

Crisis and Resistance in China, by Simon Gilbert [ PDF ]

Irish Poetry – The Changing of the Guard, by Connor Kelly [ PDF ]

Poetry

Book Review

Feedbacks-Responses

Contributors [ PDF ]

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Vol. 2 No. 6, July 2013

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW,
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
WILL SHANNON
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

The Class Impact of the Recession, by Michael Taft [ PDF ]

Whatever Happened to the ULA? by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Understanding Left Reformism, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Access and Elitism: On some pitfalls in the relationship between art and politics, by Raymond Deane [ PDF ]

Privatising the anomaly – public housing in Northern Ireland, by Stewart Smyth [ PDF ]

The Revolts of the Rural Working Class before the Famine, by Sean Moraghan [ PDF ]

The Large Hadron Collider: Who Gives a Higgs Boson Anyway? by Colm Stephens [ PDF ]

Hugo Chavez Frias (1954–2013): The king is dead, long live the revolution? by Peadar O’Grady [ PDF ]

Book Review

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 2 No. 7, September 2013

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Marxism and Feminism in an Age of Neoliberalism, by Sinéad Kennedy [ PDF ]

Cracking the crisis – Financial conspiracy or falling rate of profitability? by Brian O’Boyle [ PDF ]

Big Pharma: Private profit before public health, by Dave O’Farrell [ PDF ]

Germany: Not all in it together, by Maeve McGrath [ PDF ]

Interviews

On Being a Socialist in Parliament: Richard Boyd Barrett and Christine Buchholz, conducted by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Where now for Irish Trade Unions? Jimmy Kelly of Unite the Union, conducted by Bríd Smith [ PDF ]

Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 2 No. 8, November 2013

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Articles

The National Question – some basic principles, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Catalonia: Towards Independence? by Andy Durgan [ PDF ]

The long struggle of the Kurds, by Memet Uludag [ PDF ]

Scotland: Yes to Independence, No to Nationalism, by Keir McKechnie [ PDF ]

Northern Ireland: The Left, Sectarian Resurgence and the National Question Today, by Brian Kelly [ PDF ]

Their Democracy and Ours: the transformative potential of the workers’ council, by Tina MacVeigh [ PDF ]

Seamus Heaney: The Redress of Poetry, by Paul O’Brien [ PDF ]

Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 3 No. 9, February 2014

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Articles

Is the Irish State Racist? by Memet Uludag [ PDF ]

The Resistible Rise of Golden Dawn, by Nikos Loudos [ PDF ]

The Permanent Crisis of 21st Century Ulster Unionism, by Sean Mitchell [ PDF ]

The Precariat: New Class or Bogus Concept? by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Irish Tories and social bandits of Seventeenth Century Ireland, by Ruairí Gallagher [ <PDF ]

Oppression, Intersectionality and Privilege Theory, by Karl Gill [ PDF ]

Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 3 No. 10, June 2014

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
DONAL MAC FHEARRAIGH
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Articles

The First World War: Slaughter and Resistance, by Megan Trudell [ PDF ]

Ireland and the Great War, by Paul O’Brien [ PDF ]

Art and the First World War, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Capital in the Twenty First Century, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Rediscovering the Road Less Travelled: Lessons of Gerry Carroll’s Election Victory, by Sean Mitchell [ PDF ]

Privatisation: theory and practice, by Dave O’Farrell [ PDF ]

The Spanish state: the Indignados enter the European parliament, by Andy Durgan [ PDF ]

Racism and Islamophobia, by Memet Uludag & John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Film Review

Book Review

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Vol. 3 No. 11, November 2014

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Articles

The Politics of Sinn Fein: Rhetoric and Reality, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Where We Are Now, by Michael Taft [ PDF ]

The Struggle for LGBT rights in Ireland, interview with Ailbhe Smyth [ PDF ]

Stop Making Sense: Alienation and Mental Health, by Peadar O’Grady [ PDF ]

A Visit to the Museum – Notes on Culture and Barbarism, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

John Redmond: A Footnote in History, by Paul O’Brien [ PDF ]

Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 4 No. 12, Spring 2015

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX


Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]


Articles

Socialists and Left Government, by James O’Toole [ PDF ]

Understanding the Greek Communists, by Nikos Lountos [ PDF ]

Race and Class in Obama’s U.S., by Becca Bor [ PDF ]

Primitive Communism and the Blasket Islands, by Paul O’Brien [ PDF ]

The Revolutionary Ideas of Oscar Wilde, by James Granell [ PDF ]


Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 4 No. 13, Summer 2015

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN


Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]


Articles

The Housing Question revisited ... yet again, by Andrew McLaren [ PDF ]

Lessons from the Egyptian Revolution, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Lenin’s What is to be Done? – a defence, by James O’Toole [ PDF ]

Ireland – the best small country in the world to exploit workers? by Maeve McGrath [ PDF ]

Irish Partisans: Rapparees of the Williamite Wars, 1689–1691, by Ruairi Gallagher [ PDF ]

Happy Ramadan! by Memet Uludag [ PDF ]

Engels visits Ireland, by Lily Murphy [ PDF ]


Interview

European Monetary Union – A Rod for the Backs of Working People, with Brian O’Boyle [ PDF ]


Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 4 No. 14, November 2015

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN


Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]


Articles

The 1916 Rising: Myth and Reality, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

The Irish Working Class and the War of Independence, by Conor Kostick [ PDF ]

Women in the Irish Revolution, by Mary Smith [ PDF ]

Ireland and Scotland in the First World War: from the Dublin Rising to Red Clydeside, by Dave Sherry [ PDF ]

From the archives: Lenin on 1916, by V.I. Lenin [ PDF ]

A ‘Carnival of Reaction’: Partition and the Defeat of Ireland’s Revolutionary Wave, by Fergal McCluskey & Brian Kelly [ PDF ]

Irish Partisans: Rapparees of the Williamite Wars, 1689–1691, by Ruairi Gallagher [ PDF ]

The Roots of the Refugee Crisis, by Memet Uludag [ PDF ]


Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

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Vol. 5 No. 15, June 2016

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN


Editorial

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]


Articles

Irish Politics after the Elections, by Kieran Allen & Seán Mitchell [ PDF ]

Plumbing the Depths – The Ongoing Crisis of Global Capitalism, by Brian O’Boyle [ PDF ]

Towards a Revolutionary Party in Ireland, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Venezuela: A Revolution That Lost Its Way, by Mike Gonzalez [ PDF ]

Direct Provision – An Indictment, by Memet Uludag [ PDF ]

James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army, by Paul O’Brien [ PDF ]

Shakespeare 400 years on, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

James Joyce – the Slender Irish Tenor, by Eoghan Conaughton [ PDF]


Book Reviews

Contributors, by John Molyneux

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Vol. 5 No. 16, November 2016

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN


Editorial

Editorial, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]


Articles

Equality, Democracy, Solidarity: The Politics of Abortion, by Melisa Halpin & Peadar O’Grady [ PDF ]

Into the limelight: tax haven Ireland, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Can the European Union be reformed? by Marnie Holborow [ PDF ]

Secularism, Islamophobia and the politics of religion, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

A Socialist in Stormont, an interview with Gerry Carroll MLA [ PDF ]

Fianna Fáil: Past and Present, by Alan Byrne [ PDF ]

The socialist tradition in the disability movement: Lessons for contemporary activists, by Ivanka Antova [ PDF ]

Science, Politics and Public Policy, by Dave O’Farrell [ PDF ]

The Starry Plough – a historical note, by Damian Lawlor [ PDF ]


Book Reviews

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Vol. 6, No. 17, March 2017

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
SINÉAD KENNEDY
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN


Editorial


Articles

Chronology of the Russian Revolution, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

The Relevance of the Russian Revolution, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

How the Revolution Was Won, by James O’Toole [ PDF ]

Alexandra Kollontai – The Russian Revolution and Women’s Liberation, by Madeleine Johansson [ PDF ]

The Bolsheviks and the Sexual Revolution, by Sean Egan [ PDF ]

Ireland and the Russian Revolution, by Colm Bryce [ PDF ]

How the Revolution Was Lost, an interview with Kevin Murphy, conducted by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Does Leninism lead to Stalinism?, by John Molyneux [ PDF ]

Socialist Strategy in Ireland, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]


Book Review

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Vol. 6, No. 18, July 2017

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
SÉAMUS O’KANE Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN


Editorial


Articles

Catholicism and the Irish State – Time to Separate, by Kieran Allen [ PDF ]

Letter from Britain: The Corbyn Earthquake, by Sheila McGregor [ PDF ]

Are identity politics the answer? by Sean Carroll [ PDF ]

Le Pen and the Rise of the Front National, by Seamus O’Kane [ PDF ]

Mélenchon and the French Left, by Catherine Curran Vigier [ PDF ]

The Syrian Revolution and Syria Today, interview with Ghayath Naisse, conducted by Memet Uludag [ PDF ]

Trump’s first 5 months – this isn’t normal ..., by Dave O’Farrell [ PDF ]

BDS in the Neo-Liberal University, by Ciaran O’Rourke [ PDF ]

A Note on Corporations, Capitalism and the Environment, by Fiona Boyd [ PDF ]


Book Reviews

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Vol. 6, No. 19, November 2017

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Editor:
JOHN MOLYNEUX
Deputy Editor:
DAVE O’FARRELL
Website Editor:
MEMET ULUDAG
Editorial Board:
MARNIE HOLBOROW
TINA McVEIGH
PAUL O’BRIEN
PEADAR O’GRADY
SÉAMUS O’KANE Cover Design:
DARYL SOUTHERN


Editorial


Articles

Is Capitalism saving the planet? by Owen McCormack [ PDF ]

Political Corruption in the Irish Republic – An Historical Reminder, by Brian O’Boyle [ PDF ]

Sinn Féin in 2017, by Seamus O’Kane [ PDF ]

Imperialism and the two Koreas, by Kim Young-ik [ PDF ]

The Rohingya Crisis: Suu Kyi’s False Flag and Ethnic Cleansing in Arakan, by Md. Mahmudul Hasan [ PDF ]

Tackling mental distress, by Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin [ PDF ]


Book Reviews


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