Macklemore has been releasing music independently for over 25 years and achieved commercial success in the 2010s. Though hardly a household name, he was known among his fans for using his music to ...

Of course, sectors like Big Tech, are still notoriously gender discriminatory. Female employees make up between 29% (Microsoft) and 45% (Amazon) and women take up fewer than 1 in 4 technical roles in ...

In Nepal, a September 2025 ban on major social-media platforms triggered youth-led protests fuelled by anger over corruption and scarce opportunities. Security forces killed at least nineteen people ...

Here, contrary to the myth propagated in the right-wing press, it is necessary to tell the truth: Venezuela was never socialist. The narrative that ‘socialism led to inefficiency’ and had to be ...

Liam O’Flaherty missed the Easter Rising by a number of weeks. Claiming to have grown tired of waiting for revolution, he signed up in the Spring of 1916 to fight in the First World War. He was ...

Vanguard called for a two-day strike starting on March 27th and loyalist mobs took control of the town. From Sunday 26th to Wednesday the 29th the whole of the Catholic quarter of Portadown was kept ...

The clashes in Portadown between Orange marchers and nationalist residents have widely been reported as reflecting sharp and essentially irreconcilable differences between “the two communities”. This ...

The DUP was set up as a rightwing party, with a fundamentalist approach to evangelical Protestantism. For the first decade after its founder Rev Ian Paisley decided to power-share with Sinn Fein in ...

Washington’s plan to consolidate control of the Persian Gulf has gone disastrously wrong and they now find themselves stuck in a war they cannot win. Worse than that, the closure of the Strait of ...

The term Luddite is used today as an insult or a way of claiming someone doesn’t understand a new technology or is resisting inevitable progress. The true history of the Luddites was of a mass working ...

Amidst deepening economic insecurity, the mental distress of alienation in Ireland is increasingly manifested in the form of an addiction crisis. Alienation describes the estrangement people ...

On Tuesday 7th April, major roads and towns in Ireland were brought to a standstill by hundreds of tractors, trucks, and buses. The fuel prices protests were sparked by the US-Israeli imperialist war ...