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1 month ago | 
rugbypass.com | Josh Raisey |Ben Curry |Ben Earl
It may be scrawled somewhere on a long-forgotten scrap of paper, but being able to see Andy Farrell’s preliminary British and Irish Lions squad heading into the Guinness Six Nations would make fascinating reading given what has elapsed over the past two months. There is no doubt that his ‘before’ and ‘after’ squads look vastly different from each other. Indeed, even his penciled-in squad heading into round four will have now been redacted heavily.
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2 months ago | 
communist.red | Ravi Mistry |Ben Curry
Before Trump had even been confirmed as the 47th President of the United States of America, one European think tank had declared that “the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since Suez” is in progress. An EU bureaucrat echoed the same sentiment: “Are there any EU-US relations left?” Panic is ripping through the halls of power in Europe. It’s not hard to see why.
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2 months ago | 
marxist.com | Ben Curry
Antes incluso de que Trump hubiera sido confirmado como el 47º presidente de los Estados Unidos de América, un grupo de expertos europeo había declarado que se está produciendo “la mayor crisis en las relaciones transatlánticas desde Suez”. Un burócrata de la UE se hizo eco del mismo sentimiento: “¿Queda relación alguna entre la UE y EEUU?”. El pánico recorre los pasillos del poder en Europa. No es difícil ver por qué.
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2 months ago | 
slguardian.org | Ben Curry
Before Trump had even been confirmed as the 47th President of the United States of America, one European think tank had declared that “the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since Suez” is in progress. An EU bureaucrat echoed the same sentiment: “Are there any EU-US relations left?” Panic is ripping through the halls of power in Europe. It’s not hard to see why.
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2 months ago | 
marxist.com | Ben Curry
Before Trump had even been confirmed as the 47th President of the United States of America, one European think tank had declared that “the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since Suez” is in progress. An EU bureaucrat echoed the same sentiment: “Are there any EU-US relations left?” Panic is ripping through the halls of power in Europe. It’s not hard to see why.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
communist.red | Ben Curry
Throughout history, mankind’s ability to develop knowledge and advance our understanding of nature has been shaped by material conditions and social forces. It is not simply individual geniuses that have helped science to take leaps forward, but revolutionary changes within society. Today, far from fuelling scientific progress, the profit motive and capitalist competition have become an enormous barrier to human knowledge. Only socialist planning can free science from these chains.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
marxist.com | Ben Curry
The Irish general election has returned the two main capitalist parties to the Dáil with enough seats to form the core of a new coalition. The establishment is forcing a weak smile and trying to celebrate. “The choice of the Irish people is clear,” The Irish Times attempted to convince itself, “they want more of the same”. [Originally published at communism.ie]On the face of it, what is there not to be pleased about for their part?
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh |Hamid Alizadeh |Ben Curry
The weeks that follow a presidential election, when the outgoing President occupies himself with putting the finishing touches on his legacy while leaving it to the President-elect to put together the team that will take the reins of power, are usually a fallow period in US politics. Not this time. On the one hand, the outgoing president is engaged in a breathtakingly cynical and reckless game of brinkmanship against Russia.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
marxist.com | Hamid Alizadeh |Ben Curry
The weeks that follow a presidential election, when the outgoing President occupies himself with putting the finishing touches on his legacy while leaving it to the President-elect to put together the team that will take the reins of power, are usually a fallow period in US politics. Not this time. On the one hand, the outgoing president is engaged in a breathtakingly cynical and reckless game of brinkmanship against Russia.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
marxist.com | Ben Curry
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Ethiopian Revolution, which began as an uprising against the semi-feudal despotism of Emperor Haile Selassie but would go much further, culminating in the abolition of capitalism in the country. In this article, Ben Curry, gives an account of these dramatic events, and explains the complex processes that shaped the revolution’s course.
