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Left parties after leaderless revolutions and populism

Originally published in Turkish in Ayrıntı Dergi: a Quarterly of Socialist Politics and Culture, and translated with the help of Tilbe Akan. Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its claim to represent the total liberation of humanity from capitalism and imperialism. At first, the left was drawn into the path of taming […]

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Sinn Féin and the land issue: notes on the 2020 Irish general election

A century ago a change began in Ireland but some radical change can take centuries. An Irish Countess (married to an undocumented polish immigrant) was elected Minister for Labour for Sinn Féin. This was a first as women had yet to gain the right to vote. The US-based Irish Republican Brotherhood had pushed through an […]