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A recent article in the Belfast Telegraph informed its readers that 400,000 people in the 6-counties – that is, 26.5% of the area’s population – were using antidepressants.[1] In other words, does this mean that three out of every four residents of that dysfunctional political entity are able to get through the […]
The Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 was published just over a year ago, and still the likes of Martin, McEntee and Byrne are getting away with telling lies about what the bill actually means for Irish neutrality. There is virtually zero public discussion by either politicians or the media about the […]
Set against pagan associations of midsummer festivity and disorder, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is usually presented as one of Shakespeare’s most carefree comedies. Yet beneath lies a sharp critique of Athenian society – a world dominated by violence, while the forest outside the city becomes an imaginative alternative. Through this contrast, the […]
Sixty-five years ago, the Belgrade summit marked the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement, the largest political grouping of countries in the world after the United Nations. At the height of national liberation struggles in the post-World War II world, a vision of “struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all […]
Sixty-five years ago, the Belgrade summit marked the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement, the largest political grouping of countries in the world after the United Nations. At the height of national liberation struggles in the post-World War II world, a vision of “struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all […]
Bob Quinn was an Irish television producer who, after falling out with the RTÉ hierarchy in the late 1960s, found himself living the life of an artist in Connemara at a time when it was one of the most economically deprived regions in Europe, with a wife and young child […]
Ireland is experiencing an inflationary slowdown. Forecasts point to growth falling from expectations of near 3% to now 1.6% for 2026. Higher energy prices, alongside the decline in last year’s exports surge, feed that dynamic. Inflation is likely to register at least 3.3% in 2026. There are already signs of […]
I Mí Lúnasa, Béal Feirste will host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, the world’s largest traditional music festival. It is not the first time the Fleadh has been held in the north – Derry welcomed it in 2013 as part of the ‘UK City of Culture’ circus – but its arrival […]
Friends, comrades, we gather here today at the final resting place of 14 leaders of the 1916 Rising for the Communist Party of Ireland’s annual commemoration marking the Easter Rising and the execution of its leaders, among them perhaps the greatest Irish anti-imperialist, James Connolly. We are witnessing a raising […]
I’ve been trying to get this question straight in my own head for a while now. It surfaced in the last piece on housing, and in many ways draws on arguments I’ve been working through more fully in Breaking Dependency: Ireland’s Struggle for Class Power and Sovereignty, but here I want […]
Three events during the final week of February shifted Irish foreign policy further away from neutrality and peace-keeping towards militarism and war-making. Here’s what happened: Maritime Security Strategy On 25th February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee launched the state’s first Maritime Security Strategy. It makes for grim reading. The […]
The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the despicable accusation by the United States Department of Justice, announced on May 20 and proclaimed for several weeks, against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution. The United States government lacks the legitimacy and jurisdiction to carry out […]
We have all met this character: an otherwise kind, thoughtful, energetic advocate of the working class who seems to believe they are the reincarnation of V.I. Lenin. In this article I will examine the underlying pathology and symptomatology affecting these poor individuals and discuss possible courses of treatment to help […]
The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the escalating US attacks on the sovereign Republic of Cuba and, in particular, the illegal “indictment” of the revolutionary leader and former President of the Republic, Raúl Castro Ruz. The US has long been a rogue state which ignores international law and the UN […]
The Prosperous Heritage Group will, for the first time in public, unfurl their International Brigades banner of red, yellow and purple at The Kilcullen Heritage Centre during the Frank Conroy 90th anniversary commemoration on Saturday 20th June at 3:00 PM. The main speaker, Kildare historian James Durney, will be joined […]
The Communist Party of Ireland sends Mayday Greetings to the Irish working class, self-employed working people and family farmers. The reality for working class and working people on Mayday 2026 is the increasing cost of living, with the price of food, clothing, energy, heating and rent increasing, while wages – for […]
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter and a key strategist for imperialism during and after the Cold War, said in his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard that the biggest threat to US unipolarity would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran—an “antihegemonic” coalition united not by […]
Music, poetry, comedy and theatre performances at Connolly Books during December. Leading musicians, comedians and actors will perform live shows in Connolly Books, and its associated New Theatre, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday in December. Launching on the 4th, it is a celebration of the largely youth-driven renaissance in Irish […]
Friends, comrades, we gather here today at the final resting place of 14 leaders of the 1916 Rising for the Communist Party of Ireland’s annual commemoration marking the Easter Rising and the execution of its leaders, among them perhaps the greatest Irish anti-imperialist, James Connolly. We are witnessing a raising […]
The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the despicable accusation by the United States Department of Justice, announced on May 20 and proclaimed for several weeks, against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution. The United States government lacks the legitimacy and jurisdiction to carry out […]
The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the escalating US attacks on the sovereign Republic of Cuba and, in particular, the illegal “indictment” of the revolutionary leader and former President of the Republic, Raúl Castro Ruz. The US has long been a rogue state which ignores international law and the UN […]
The upcoming by-election candidates are up to all sorts of wacky adventures, and they’re hoping you’ll join them. Helen Ogbu is handing out packets of Hunky Dorys on a commuter train, while Ruth O’Dea has taken up urbex (the activity of urban exploring abandoned buildings). Daniel Ennis is getting on […]
It would be entirely understandable if our readers were to take a measure of enjoyment from the latest spat embroiling Fianna Fáil and its leader, Micheál Martin. Castigated from within and outside the party for his handling of the fuel protests, questions were bound to be raised about his leadership. […]
The important contribution that Marx made towards socialism was that he transformed socialism from utopian to scientific socialism. The utopian socialists like Robert Owen, Saint-Simon and Fourier had the greatest of intentions. They thought socialism could be achieved by appealing to the moral side of humans, by propagating ideas that […]
For decades the housing question in Ireland has been framed in narrow and increasingly sterile terms. On one side stands the market, presented as the mechanism through which supply and demand will balance if given sufficient freedom. On the other stands the traditional social democratic response, calling for increased public […]
The EU presents itself as a champion of press freedom and human rights, but that image is rapidly fraying. It is increasingly deploying its sanctions machinery against journalists and analysts who challenge establishment narratives – often with devastating consequences for their livelihoods, families and basic civil rights. Several recent cases […]
The annual festival to commemorate the execution of James Connolly on 12th May 1916 will this year feature readings of a short story and a play which have been attributed to the revolutionary socialist and writer and were only discovered in recent years. The short story entitled ‘The Agitator’s Wife’ […]
The rapid expansion of private credit over the past decade, previously discussed in October’s Socialist Voice (“IMF Fears Looming Capitalist Crisis”), has created a fragile pillar of global finance. Now estimated at roughly $2 trillion, the sector has grown by extending loans to riskier, often highly leveraged companies. As detailed in October, […]
The Global Progressive Mobilization Conference was held in Barcelona on April 17–18, 2026, under the patronage of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and with the participation of Stefan Löfven, signalling a European effort to reposition the progressive current internationally. More than four thousand participants from around forty countries attended, including leaders […]
Baineadh siar asainn ar an séú lá den mhí seo caite nuair a tháinig an scéal go raibh Gabriel Rosenstock ar shlí na fírinne. Over a long period Rosenstock contributed poetry to Socialist Voice, always a new work and always well on time. The poems were usually accompanied by his own […]
Fresh off the printing press, Sinéad Morrissey’s memoir Among Communists, a story of growing up in a household of Communist Party members in Belfast, has drawn significant attention in the Irish media. Morrissey’s acclaim as a poet is one major factor, but the topic and the way the topic is covered […]
Under the slogan “Peace, Independence & Socialism”, delegates from various branches of the Communist Party of Ireland gathered in Dublin over the weekend of 25th–26th April to discuss and debate the national and global situation. The delegates also agreed the Party’s Political Resolution, voted on changes to the Constitution, and […]
The Iranian war exposes capitalism’s core logic: upward wealth transfer and economic instability driven by profit, speculation and debt. Rising energy prices, triggered by the war, are accelerating inflation and rippling through the economy, with knock on effects, either now, sooner or later, for transport, food and business costs. That […]
Since the turn of the century, China has been undergoing its own green industrial revolution. In 2023, China was responsible for the production of over 80% of the world’s solar panels and 60% of the world’s electric vehicles.1 China’s domestic New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) — referring to battery/pure electric vehicles, plug-in […]
The escalating conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran is often presented as another regional crisis in the long history of Middle Eastern wars. In reality it reflects something far larger: the growing instability of the global order that has been dominated by the United States since the end […]
Available data indicate that attacks in the West Bank are no longer merely a temporary escalation in the level of violence; rather, they have evolved into a systematic pattern reflecting the intersection of settler attacks with deeper structural transformations in the conflict. This escalation became particularly evident during the period […]
The Irish ruling class, its subservient media and academia, along with a well-funded global network of “think tanks” connected to the military-industrial complex, continue to subvert neutrality and push ahead for the removal of the Triple Lock. The grovelling antics of the Irish political class were best reflected in the […]
