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Friends of Socialist China held its second annual China Conference on Saturday, September 27. Delegates gathered in London’s Bolivar Hall to hear expert presentations from an international range of diplomatic representatives, progressive scholars and activists on such topics as: 80 years since the defeat of fascism—China as a force for […]
In recent years, the government of São Paulo, led by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, has spent over 37 million Brazilian Reais on contracts with Israeli military companies. These include Israel Weapons Industries, Meprolight, and Cellebrite, known for their weapons and surveillance technologies. These tools, often described as “combat-tested,” are now […]
In recent weeks, the United States has sharply escalated its attempts to throttle the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Under the pretext of fighting drugs, the US has deployed thousands of troops, warships, a nuclear submarine, and F-35 fighter jets off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. These forces have attacked fishing […]
The ‘Break the Chains of Academic Zionism’ encampment at University College Dublin is heading into its third week. What began on 7th September 2025, with one lone Social Rights Ireland activist refusing to stay silent about UCD’s collaboration with the Zionist entity, has grown into a determined camp of resistance. […]
The three-way presidential race between Catherine Connolly, Jim Gavin, and Heather Humphreys has helped bring the Triple Lock into the conversation. However, the media and the government candidates are at pains to ensure the issue is not conflated with abandoning Irish neutrality. Humphreys and Gavin have faced no challenge in […]
Leaving Ireland to be with the communist parties of the world in Beirut brought mixed feelings of huge pride and not a little trepidation. Would we be stopped, harassed, or deported on our journey? Would the Occupation decide to annihilate the comrades? I thought of Donnelly and the brigaders, the obstacles […]
Over the first seven articles in this series, we demonstrated how public ownership, democratic planning, and socialist economics offer a compelling alternative to the chaos, inequality, and destruction of capitalism. But economic theory—no matter how coherent—remains inert without the political power to implement it. Equally, political power without a class-based economic programme devolves […]
In 1962, Shostakovich composed his 13th Symphony, based on five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. These poems reflect on Soviet society during the 1950s and 60s, exploring themes ranging from the suffering caused by Nazi Germany and the resilience found in humour, to the trauma of Stalinism and the strength of […]
Last month, the Irish and British governments launched their joint Legacy Framework proposals. The stated aim is to provide families of Troubles-related dead with, “… a fair, proportionate, and transparent system to seek answers.” This initiative is being described by both states as a means of undoing a flawed and […]
Ireland’s working-class communities have lived with the shadow of the drug trade for decades. From the heroin epidemic of the 1980s to today’s cocaine economy, drugs have carved deep scars through families, schools, and neighbourhoods. Entire generations were written off, while governments looked away. Today, the problem remains as sharp as ever. […]
Fun fact: Guinness, the quintessential Irish drink exported worldwide, originated in the working-class pubs of early 18th-century London. Known as porter, this dark beer was invented as an affordable, nutritious, and consistent alternative to the custom-mixed blends patrons often bought. Its name came from its immense popularity with London’s dockworkers […]
I remember Fatima Mansions flats had a live-in caretaker when I was there as a kid. They removed the caretakers as part of a general attack on social housing. At the start of the 1980s, they were building 8,000 homes a year; by the end, it was just 800. They […]
Since February 2025, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has presented itself as a relief initiative to ease hunger and suffering in Gaza, promising food, water, medicine, and shelter while blocking aid from reaching Hamas. Yet, this condition revealed its deeper purpose: aid transformed into a political weapon to reshape Palestinian […]
As Communists, we should not be surprised by the rise of right-wing and neo-fascist groups in an orchestrated fashion all over the world, because fascism raises its head when capitalism is in decay. When the ruling class is no longer able to rule by persuasion, it uses coercion to maintain capitalist accumulation. […]
The Presidential election provides all those who are concerned about Irish neutrality and the Triple Lock with an opportunity to raise this critical issue. On Friday the 24th of October, we will be asked to vote for a new President of the State after the current holder of the office, […]
Many working families will face very difficult choices this coming winter regarding putting food on the table or heating their homes. The unit rates for electricity, as well as the standing charges, will each increase by 9.5%. While the price of food continues to increase, between June 2024 and June 2025 food and non-alcoholic […]
The government continues its strategy of absolute subservience to the needs and interest of global imperial interest in relation to foreign policy, its ongoing efforts to undermine and get rid of Irish neutrality and the Triple Lock and its absolute unquestioning commitment to market forces solving the housing crisis. Despite […]
The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with Kneecap, who are now under serious threat by the forces of the British State. The arrest and charging of one of the group’s members Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, is just the latest in the ongoing effort to silence the group and […]
The Communist Party of Ireland sends May Day greetings to the working class of Ireland, to all anti-imperialist and progressive organisations, to the international Communist movement, to all those struggling against imperialism, colonialism, fascism and native capitalism, and to those actively struggling to build socialism in their workplaces and communities. […]
Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 in Martinique, a French colony where formal citizenship masked systemic racial inequality. Though raised in a prosperous Black family and steeped in Enlightenment ideals, Fanon became disillusioned during World War II. Joining the Free French forces in 1943, he encountered severe racism within the […]
I am not embarrassed by the Irish tri-colour. I am not ashamed of the Irish tri-colour. I never was and I never will be. I am proud of what it stands for, I am proud of its meaning and I am proud of its history. At the same time I […]
Dear Comrade, The August issue of Socialist Voice published an excellent piece by Niall Cullinane entitled ‘Stalling into Oblivion’, which outlined the stagnating tendency of contemporary capitalism and the decline of GDP growth decade by decade since the 1960s. The article ended with a slight nod to those who may favour ‘degrowth’ […]
With the traditional Orange marching season now ended, it is timely to review certain events in the North. Unlike times past when assessing summer in the six counties, this year attention has turned towards differences within sections of the pro-union community rather than confrontations with their neighbours. To be precise, […]
Twenty years ago, on 16 September 2005, Terence Wheelock died after weeks in a coma. He’d been arrested on 2 June 2005 and taken to Store Street Garda station in Dublin’s north inner city. The Guards claimed he hung himself. But their story didn’t add up. The Wheelock family have […]
The Alaska Summit between the USA and the Russian Federation carried historic weight. It was not just another diplomatic meeting; it symbolised the irreversible declaration that the Zionist-dominated Western unipolar world is finished. The central issue was the Ukrainian conflict, under the motto of “pursuing peace”. On the table sat […]
In past centuries, Ireland endured one of the harshest colonial experiences in European history. During the British era, Irish farmers saw their lands confiscated and were forcibly displaced from their farms to make way for Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. This policy—known as the Plantation Policy—entailed the large-scale seizure […]
The struggle for Irish sovereignty, encompassing national reunification and the defence of Irish neutrality, is more than an Irish or a regional issue. It represents a potential front in the global confrontation against a US-led imperialist bloc, spearheaded by NATO and the EU, which is preparing for war against Russia […]
The brutal attack and humiliation of an Indian immigrant in Tallaght, based on false narratives, is contemptible and abominable. There have been racially motivated attacks in Ballymena earlier, and violence targeting immigrants in Dublin a year ago. What used to be isolated attacks are growing into an epidemic; a Pakistani […]
Last month’s spectacular collapse of Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has felled one of the last bastions of Latin America’s “Pink Tide”, dealing a devastating blow to the country’s indigenous, peasant, and working classes. Now, Bolivians must choose between two right-wing candidates in the country’s first-ever runoff elections, while progressive […]
Migration has become one of the sharpest dividing lines in Irish politics. Across estates, villages, and towns, people feel the crunch of housing shortages, collapsing health services, and precarious work. The far right has seized on these frustrations, directing anger at migrants instead of profiteers. Meanwhile, parts of the left […]
The business press is increasingly concerned about the AI stock market bubble. Concerns are being highlighted about over-concentration in AI-related giants, noting that the hype around AI may be inflating valuations while delivering lacklustre returns (Tech Stocks are sending a warning, Financial Times, 23 August). A recently published Massachusetts Institute of […]
The guerrilla fighters of the Palestinian Resistance have taken the various doctrines on guerrilla warfare to a whole new level in their two years of fighting the genocidal, Zionist, Israeli army. After two years, in areas that the Israelis claim to have “pacified” and turned into rubble, the guerrillas are still inflicting major […]
One of the latest in a series of high-profile attacks on Irish neutrality came from the Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, at a Béal na Bláth Michael Collins commemoration. In concert with the media campaign for the removal of the Triple Lock, MacNeill and the rest of the government speak […]
As an unequivocal expression of the deepening of ties with its nationals abroad—in this case, with Cubans and their descendants living in Ireland—the Consular Office of the Cuban Embassy in Dublin has convened the First National Meeting of Cubans Residing in Ireland and Their Descendants for 11 October. The date […]
Ten years on from the unlikely victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the British Labour Party leadership contest, and his subsequent exile from the Labour Party following a Zionist-led smear campaign over accusations of antisemitism, it has to be asked if there’s anything new to say about that brief moment when […]
