Inaugural Publication 11/03/23

The Irish Radical’s Inaugural publication

PALESTINE

The Tent of Nations

Alice Lei5 min read
The Tent of Nations

Tent of Nations is the Nassar family’s farm situated southwest of Bethlehem. I had the privilege of becoming well acquainted with Daoud, Amal, Jihan, and Daher Nassar during my two month stay, working…

WRITINGS

The Irish Radical’s Manifesto

Irish Radical6 min read
The Irish Radical’s Manifesto

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes,…

Theses on Crisis

Tianle Zhang6 min read
Theses on Crisis

Hic Rhodus, hic salta! –Aesop, Aesop’s Fables I. Marxists, of course, are no strangers to crisis. Capital is commonly taken as a work of social science, demonstrating the lawful inevitability of capitalist crisis, and with it, the historical inevitability of…

Post-Fenian Workers

Jenkin Benson15 min read
Post-Fenian Workers

Or, Radical Reminders from a 19th Century Broadside Ballad  Figure 1: Notre Dame’s Copy of “The Fenian Men” – Title Harp Illustration Within Hesburgh Libraries’s Special Collections, a page of 19th century Irish song rests in 21st century American quiescence.…

POETRY

Discourse on Gushers

Alice Lei2 min read
Discourse on Gushers

I think it’s really cool you like capitalism  Because, same You get a ton of things And fast  You kill a lot of people But so what (sad face) Dog eats Dog man eats man Let’s eat until we explode Gorge on the earth and flesh and shit Until our…

Took a loan from the IMF and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

Coby McKeown3 min read
Took a loan from the IMF and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

Uh. The sky is heavy and crunches everything into me. I am the image of the ideal American-boy. I wear a “Bush did 9/11” trucker hat everywhere I go. My tongue is made of a strip of the gadsden flag. My lashes are thin shavings of the bullets that shot…