Rupture Media

12/08/2024

09/07/2024

🚨 New speaker announcement 🚨

Patrick Bresnihan was one of the first to expose the growth of data centres in Ireland and their terrible climate impacts. He's written an excellent new book 'All we want is the earth', and will now be speaking at this years summer camp!

TICKETS ARE ALMOST OUT - BOOK YOURS BY SUNDAY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

https://rupture.ie/camp24

08/07/2024

We are delighted to announce Charlotte Powell as a speaker at our session on fighting for Trans Rights.

Charlotte is an activist and author based in Britain, and was co-authoer of the excellent pamphlet 'Fighting Transphobia'.

ONLY A FEW TICKETS REMAINING FOR ECOSOCIALIST SUMMER CAMP 2024

We expect to run out of places this week - so if you have been holding off booking, make sure to do so now!

Book at: https://rupture.ie/camp24

03/07/2024

We are very excited to have Kai Heron speaking at this year's Ecosocialist Summer Camp, discussing how we can win farmers and workers to ecosocialist change.

Rupture has been following Kai's writings on capitalist climate destruction, ecosocialism and his contributions to the debate on degrowth over recent years, and are really looking forward to give people a chance to hear and discuss more with him.

Tickets for the camp are running out so make sure to book your place now: https://rupture.ie/camp24

02/07/2024

We are very excited to have Richard Seymour speaking at this year's Ecosocialist Summer Camp, as part of our panel discussing how we can fight the far-right.

Richard is a well known socialist author and activist, writing for publications from Jacobin to The Guardian, and publishing books on Austerity, the Corbyn movement and his upcoming book 'Disaster Nationalism - The downfall of liberal civilisation' looks at the rise of the far-right internationally.

Tickets for the camp are running out so make sure to book your place now: https://rupture.ie/camp24

27/06/2024

Last week we published an opinion piece on ‘The Case for Left Unity in the coming General Election’, and encouraged others to respond with their thoughts.

Today we publish a response from a former Sinn Féin councillor Séighin Ó Ceallaigh.

Check it out on rupture.ie - link I'm bio

24/06/2024

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.

Here Barry Conlon looks at why Marxists should stand in elections - and how they can do so in a way that actually builds people power and the socialist movement.

https://rupture.ie/articles/why-stand-in-elections

19/06/2024

The recent elections were a warning to the left. We need to come together to defeat the far-right and the neoliberal 'centre'.

Here Prendiville presents his ideas for how we can do that:

1) A broad Vote Left - Transfer Left pact,

2) A combined Socialist Left Block

Read the article here: https://rupture.ie/articles/the-case-for-left-unity-in-the-coming-general-election

Do you agree? Disagree? Want to write a response to this piece? Or collaborate to help turn these ideas into action? Reach out to us!

14/06/2024

For the second election 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, PBP Dublin South West and RISE members Diarmuid Flood and Paul Murphy review the deeply polarised Local and European Elections and outline five key takeaways.

Read the full article: https://rupture.ie/articles/5-takeaways-from-the-elections

13/06/2024

This years Eco-Socialist Summer Camp is set to be the biggest and best yet, with a wide variety of international guest speakers and participants.

A glorious escape to nature, with inspiring discussions, international guest speakers, fun activities and plenty of socialising & relaxing.

Don't delay - book your place now at https://www.letusrise.ie/camp24

08/05/2024

New episode !

On this episode we welcome Gus Woody, from RS21 as our special guest this week. Together, we delve into their article reprinted in issue 11 of Rupture, titled "Transphobia in the Climate Movement?" where we discuss the current state of the climate movement in the UK, how transphobia has taken root and what we can do to prevent it in our movements

Listen here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ruptureradio/episodes/Writers-room-Transphobia-in-the-Climate-Movement--By-Gus-Woody-from-RS21-e2jdj3h

03/05/2024

Lenin was a human being, just like you, with all the complexity, contradictions and changing ideas that come with that.

This simple fact seems obvious, but it is sadly missing from much of the common narratives about this Russian revolutionary, which too often rush to deify or vilify.

That’s what makes leBlanc’s new biography so unique - it manages to champion the key ideas and insights of Lenin, without elevating him to an idol.

Read Cian Prendiville's review of leBlanc's new book on Leni here: https://rupture.ie/articles/defending-lenin-from-leninists

02/05/2024

Lenin was a human being, just like you, with all the complexity, contradictions and changing ideas that come with that.

This simple fact seems obvious, but it is sadly missing from much of the common narratives about this Russian revolutionary, which too often rush to deify or vilify.

That’s what makes leBlanc’s new biography so unique - it manages to champion the key ideas and insights of Lenin, without elevating him to an idol.

Read Cian Prendiville's review of leBlanc's new book on Lenin here: https://rupture.ie/articles/defending-lenin-from-leninists

24/04/2024

NEW EPISODE!

This week we have another reading of "Dot com-monism" by Cian McGrath! A good analysis of how the left has used the internet and a good piece to begin to ask the question; what would an eco-socialist internet look like?

Listen here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ruptureradio/episodes/Rupture-Reading-Dot-Com-munism-Rejecting-the-corporate-web--building-an-internet-for-the-people-e2iqotm

22/04/2024

Rupture is pleased to publish this article on Save Our Sperrins , a community campaign set up to defend the Sperrin mountains in Co. Tyrone from mega-mining. We sat down virtually with Fidelma to discuss the campaign.

https://rupture.ie/articles/save-our-sperrins-the-fight-against-extractivism

We are publishing this article from Rupture 11 as part of our Earth Day celebrations - and we are also doing a special 50% off deal on the digital download of Rupture 11 and all our Digital Downloads.

22/04/2024

Ash dieback is killing our ash trees. Since first being discovered here in 2012, the disease is now in every county, and poses a major threat to our biodiversity.

To commemorate Earth Day Rupture are please to publish this article, investigating how this disease got here and spread so rapidly, and why we should care.

https://rupture.ie/articles/trees-for-example-ash

We are also doing a special 50% off deal on the digital download of Rupture 11 it was originally published in and on all our Digital Downloads purchased today.

18/04/2024

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.

Ireland has never been immune to racist and fascist politics.

In this article, the careers and ideas of three key figures in the history of Irish fascism prior to 2016 will be discussed.

https://rupture.ie/articles/irish-fascism-a-very-short-introduction-part-one-1

17/04/2024

Recent years have seen renewed debate on climate strategy on the left, including a debate on the concept of ecosocialist degrowth here at Rupture.

Here we republish an article by Kai Heron for Verso Books that responds to the arguments of the proponents of left eco-modernism and argues that it risks reactionary political consequences - Link to the article in bio.

We are also excited to announce that Kai will speak at this year’s Ecosocialist Summer Camp.

09/04/2024

Somehow, Simon Harris will be Ireland’s next Taoiseach.

He represents the product of Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael: a generation of entitled posh boys, to whom the world is owed, elected to a position they hold no qualification for, and who’s greatest achievement is the avoidance of facing up to a real days work once in their lives.

Here Rupture web editor Seán Walsh looks at the rise of Simon Harris, Ireland’s answer to ‘What would happen if you took Rishi Sunak’s likeability, mixed it in with Liz Truss’s nous and Leo Varadkar’s politics?’.

https://rupture.ie/articles/simon-harris-nobodys-taoiseach

05/04/2024

The left has utilised the internet to develop consciousnesses, organise protests and effect change. This piece argues however that we need a deeper analysis and asks what an ecosocialist internet would look like?

https://rupture.ie/articles/dot-com-munism-rejecting-the-corporate-web-amp-building-an-internet-for-the-people

03/04/2024

NEW EPISODE! Today we have a reading of an old article on the housing crisis in Ireland and what needs to be done to address this crisis properly (hint: its not more capitalism)

Listen here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ruptureradio/episodes/Rupture-Reading-The-deepening-housing-crisis---financialisation-and-accumulation-e2hu0br

25/03/2024

The Irish media has been falling over itself in praise of Leo Varadkar, presenting him as some sort of trailblazing progressive who managed to be ‘above politics’. The truth is very different.

Here Conall McCallig and Corbin Browne outline 5 issues which showed Varadkar for who he really was: an enemy of the oppressed:

https://rupture.ie/articles/5-issues-where-varadkar-showed-himself-as-irelands-greatest-enemy-of-the-oppressed

20/03/2024

People Before Profit’s pamphlet ‘The Case for a Left Government’ sparked outrage from establishment media and politicians in 2023, with the Irish Independent calling it “an incendiary document”. It has also led to debate on the socialist left, with a critique from Eddie McCabe of the Socialist Party accusing PBP of “sowing illusions in Sinn Féin” and reflecting a “mistaken view of what Sinn Féin is”.

Here, Aprille Scully and Diarmuid Flood respond to this criticism, arguing that the socialist left should engage with the desires for a left government in a positive and principled way, not just criticise from the sidelines.

https://rupture.ie/articles/debating-left-government

19/03/2024

Hey everyone!
This week we're joined by 2 of our comrades across the Atlantic from the Reform and Revolution caucus in the DSA. We discuss the current state of the DSA, the recent R&R conference in Portland Oregon and the upcoming 2024 US Presidential elections!

Listen here:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ruptureradio/episodes/The-State-of-the-Union-The-USA-and-DSA-with-Reform-and-Revolution-e2h9vn6

16/03/2024

On March 8 voters delivered the largest defeat in history for a referendum put forward by the government.

The far right claimed credit but so have progressive disability rights & carers' activists.

So who is right? And what are the lessons for the left?

https://rupture.ie/articles/reflecting-on-the-rejected-referendums