Ed McNally
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Ed McNally
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My piece from the latest Tribune on 'sleepwalking' elites and Chris Clark vis. Perry Anderson is now unpaywalled tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/into...
Into the Abyss
In the landscape of contemporary European politics, our rulers seem increasingly intent on walking us towards catastrophe — an ‘eyes wide shut’ approach that badly misremembers the cautionary tales of...
tribunemag.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I have an essay in the spring issue of Tribune (out soon) on ‘sleepwalking’ elites and Christopher Clark vis. Perry Anderson
May 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I wrote about histories of the CIA for the latest issue of New Left Review (unpaywalled): newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
Ed McNally, Instruments of Empire, NLR 152, March–April 2025
Ed McNally on Hugh Wilford, The CIA: An Imperial History. Antidote to apologias for the US intelligence agency, a periodization from the Truman Doctrine to the ‘war on terror’.
newleftreview.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Ed McNally
Glad to see some serious reflection on James Connolly as a political thinker.
January 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My journal article on James Connolly as a pioneering anti-colonial thinker is online, open access in Modern Intellectual History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Irish Idea: James Connolly’s Political Thought | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
The Irish Idea: James Connolly’s Political Thought
www.cambridge.org
December 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
My Tribune piece on Palestine as a popular cause which opens the way for mass politics not just in the Middle East but here in Britain too: tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/the-...
The Road to Freedom Runs Through Palestine
From Cairo to London, Israel's brutal assaults have spurred a return of mass politics confronting all forms of injustice. The simple truth is that none of us are free until Palestine is.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 8, 2023 at 12:59 PM
Sicily reading
August 1, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by Ed McNally
""So in all, oceans are being hit by a quadruple whammy," he said. "It's a sign of things to come."
Thousands of dead fish have been washing up on Texan beaches and heat-induced algal blooms have also been blamed for killing sea lions and dolphins in California."
Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records, experts say
The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals.
www.reuters.com
July 1, 2023 at 10:30 PM