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Review: Elysium 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Elysium is a dystopian sci-fi action film released in August 2013, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Set in the year 2154, it follows the story of Max da Costa, a factory worker living in the ruin...
The trial of Chelsea Manning 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
The final days of the trial revealed the disgusting new depths to which the US Military is sinking in an effort to persecute Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. In 2010 this brave young military intel...
South Africa: One year after the Marikana massacre 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
On 16 August, 2012, at Marikana, a bloody line was drawn in South Africa’s political sand when police in cold blood shot dead 34 workers and wounded 78. The few seconds of the massacre that were shown...
US: Socialist breakthrough shows path for independent politics 20 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
In the August primary election for Seattle City Council, Socialist Alternative candidate Kshama Sawant won a stunning 35% of the vote in a three-way race against two Democratic Party candidates. Over ...
Egypt: Hundreds dead as military tries to consolidate power in blood 19 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Millions across the world, and especially in the Middle East, have been shocked by the killing of hundreds of mainly unarmed people in the Egyptian military’s brutal clearance of the two pro-Morsi cam...
The truth about water metering and charges 17 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The cloak and dagger tactics employed by Irish Water to garner media publicity for the installation of its ‘first domestic water meter’ on Thursday of last week is an unconscious admission that the im...
Fuelling world hunger - biofuels not the route to sustainability 15 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Biofuels are fuels that are produced from living or geologically recent organisms such as plants. These have long been regarded by some as a possible alternative to fossil fuels and contributor in sol...
The article the Sunday Independent refused to print 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
In the Sunday Independent newspaper on 4 August, Labour Party councillor Richard Humphreys had this article attacking an interview in which I called for a new intifada, similar to the first intifada. ...
Review: Karl Marx - A Nineteenth Century Life 12 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
In this book Jonathan Sperber says he aims to place the great revolutionary thinker and activist firmly in his times. In a comprehensive, readable biography, the University of Missouri's Professor of ...
Statement by the Socialist Party on water metering & charging 8 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The proposal by the government and Irish Water to install millions of water meters on homes is reactionary and profit-driven and has nothing to do with water conservation. Meters will facilitate the c...
