RUPTURE

DECEMBER 10. 2024

GE24: Changing of the Mudguard?

People Before Profit’s (PBP) slogan during the election campaign was “End 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael”. But now we are facing into yet another Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael (FF-FG) government. Why has this happened? Are we stuck in a never-ending Groundhog Day or does hope for radical change rema

OCTOBER 4. 2024

Hugo Blanco - Lesser Spotted Comrades

By David Convery On 25 June 2023, Hugo Blanco, the renowned Peruvian activist, champion of indigenous struggles and pioneer of ecosocialism, died in Sweden. Blanco organised and fought throughout his life, with tactics ranging from strikes, land occupations, and armed struggle, based on the princip

SEPTEMBER 2. 2024

Nothing Left to Take: The Impact of War on Earth

Joselyn Peña (they/them) is the President of the YDSA chapter at Florida International University and Communications Co-chair for DSA's Reform & Revolution caucus.

JULY 3. 2024

Family-Friendly France?

Penelope Duggan is a member of the bureau of the Fourth International and editor of International Viewpoint. She is a Fellow of the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam with particular responsibility for women's programmes.

JUNE 27. 2024

Debate: Is Left Unity Achievable?

Rupture has always been committed to promoting debate, and encouraging constructive discussion, and we are glad to see debate emerging on the issue of left unity. Last week we published an opinion piece on ‘The Case for Left Unity in the coming General Election’, and encouraged others to respo

JUNE 24. 2024

Why stand in elections?

By Barry Conlon Arguments about whether or not to stand in elections have a history in the socialist movement almost as long as the history of the movement itself. There are three broad positions running through those debates recurring again and again.

JUNE 19. 2024

The case for Left Unity in the coming General Election

Rupture Chief Editor, former PBP steering committee member and MEP candidate in the recent elections in the South CIAN PRENDIVILLE outlines his view that those elections should be the cold-shower jolt to push the left to seriously consider greater unity, and take action to strengthen the left altern

JUNE 14. 2024

5 Takeaways from the Elections

For the second year in a row, dramatic political changes took place in the course of the local and European elections. With the final tallies counted and remaining seats filled, Diarmuid Flood and Paul Murphy review the results and outline five key takeaways.

MAY 2. 2024

Defending Lenin from 'Leninists'

Paul leBlanc’s new book ‘Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution’ is a must-read, writes Cian Prendiville

APRIL 22. 2024

Trees, For Example, Ash

Article originally published in Rupture 11 as part of the special feature on Land:

Save Our Sperrins - The fight against extractivism

Originally published in Rupture 11 as part of the special feature on Land.

APRIL 18. 2024

Irish Fascism: A Very Short Introduction

By Padraig Mac Oscair The cosy myth put forward by commentators that Ireland didn’t have a problem with far-right extremism was laid to rest by the riots in Dublin on 23 November 2023, after an anti-immigration protest accelerated into looting costing tens of millions. This represented the culmina

APRIL 9. 2024

Simon Harris - Nobody’s Taoiseach

A counter-history of his ascension By Seán Walsh, Rupture Web Editor Somehow, Simon Harris will be Ireland’s next Taoiseach. While Varadkar may have offered an open attachment to an extreme ideological position unlike anything before him, Harris offers some things that are equally novel but very

APRIL 8. 2024

Forget Eco-Modernism

Recent years have seen renewed debate on climate strategy on the left, including a debate on the concept of ecosocialist degrowth here at Rupture . Below we republish an article by Kai Heron for Verso Books that responds to the arguments of the proponents of left eco