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Deich mbliana a bhí sé ar a mhéid, murar bheag dá aois agus an t-umar mór á iompar aige soitheach caoga líotar nó nios mó an canna buí plaisteach agus a dhá láimh i ngreim air, á choinneáil idir a dhá chois chreatacha cúpla orlach ar éigin os cionn dusta […]
Socialists, Republicans and Communists have been meeting together under the auspices of the Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum, on the distressing issue of the torture of Palestinian political prisoners, held as hostages by the Zionists in Israeli jails. The fifth conference was held in Dublin’s Teachers Club on Sunday 25th […]
The United States is working to limit tensions between its allies in the Middle East as it prepares, alongside Israel, a regime change for Iran. The Pentagon has deployed additional forces to US bases in the Gulf states and to the US-UK military base in Diego Garcia. Meanwhile, another front, […]
In our previous article, we dismantled the persistent myth that “planning can’t work,” highlighting how modern computing, artificial intelligence, and realtime data have made largescale coordination more feasible than ever. But theory alone can only persuade so far; the working class demands evidence. This article examines real-world experiences from Soviet […]
Michael Crummey’s The Adversary, winner of the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, is a dark, atmospheric novel that probes the brutal complexities of early colonial Newfoundland through themes of power, class, and survival. Set in a remote coastal community marked by hardship and hierarchy, the narrative interrogates the moral and human costs […]
On Tuesday 20th May, the European Union announced that the bloc’s Rapid Deployment Capacity is now operational. This consists of a 5,000-soldier military force capable of being sent to any country in the world, whether such countries want it or not. The Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) wishes to place on record […]
Largely absent from the Western historical narrative, Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) was a radical German theologian, preacher, and revolutionary whose vision went far beyond religious reform. While Martin Luther sought to challenge Church corruption within existing feudal structures, Müntzer aimed for a complete social upheaval. His leadership during the German […]
“Ireland is one of 5 EU member states without domestic gas storage, something which has been identified as a considerable risk in the event of damage to one or both of our subsea gas interconnectors.” This line from a recent Department of Environment pre;ss release sounds rather familiar. While the […]
The debate over Irish neutrality forces us to confront a deeper question: Is Ireland truly sovereign? Sovereignty is defined as “the complete independence of a state in deciding all questions relating to its internal life and foreign relations. Sovereignty serves…as a rampart under the protection of which individual peoples are […]
Since 2008, governments across mature capitalist economies have come to rely heavily on debt issuance. For example, governments in the US, Japan, the UK, France, and Italy are now structurally dependent on deficit spending, low interest rates and debt rollover to maintain political-economic stability. Persistent deficits, even during tepid growth, […]
The presence of the far right in Ireland has not gone unnoticed to date, yet some further analysis is required. Several recent developments need our attention. There is, for example, the spreading of meetings and rallies to areas not previously centres of such public displays. Disturbing too is the presence […]
This rag-tag coalition government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and a motley crew of Independent TDs continues to show absolute loyalty to the needs of imperialism and the interests of capital over those of the Irish people. This is best understood in relation to the foreign policy of this state and the […]
Last year The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) issued an alarming report that should be known and talked about yet received comparatively little coverage. The report, entitled Europe’s hidden security crisis- How data about European defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and non-state actors, outlines how […]
Lenin identified imperialism and its corollary of anti-imperialism as the principal contradiction of the global capitalist system in his day. This remains the case today, as evidenced in further monopolisation and concentration trends, labour and tax arbitrage, war and market creation and control, and the distinctive role of finance capital […]
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 German Peasants’ War (1524–1525) was a large-scale social and political uprising in early modern Europe, where peasants, who constituted the majority of the population, revolted against the oppressive feudal system. Trapped in servitude, the peasants were burdened with labour and levies to the nobility while a growing bourgeois class […]
At the end of April, the first draft of China’s Environment Code was presented. The second large legislative undertaking in this decade for the Chinese legislators after the introduction of the Civil Code, the Environment Code harmonises the corpus of over 30 environment laws, amounting for 10% of the overall […]
In last month’s article1, we argued that public ownership is not enough, but that it must be combined with democratic planning to truly serve the working class. Planning is the linchpin of socialism: the conscious, collective organisation of economic life for the common good. This article takes that argument further […]
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. […]
The women of the Communist Party of Ireland would like to offer our deepest solidarity with the Mothers Against Genocide group, we share the outrage felt across the solidarity movement at your horrific treatment. In your fight to expose the genocide currently being carried out by the Zionist occupation against […]
As South Korea faces political turmoil – an impeached president, public outrage, and a pivotal election – recent events reveal deeper systemic fractures rooted in imperialism, authoritarianism, and comprador capitalism. Historical Foundations: Colonialism and Cold War Repression South Korea’s modern political economy was forged under Japanese colonialism (1910–1945), which exploited […]
When you mention “the politics of food”, most people look at you askance. Through no fault of their own, they have never been told about the crucial links of consumerism, politics or economics to food and its production. They certainly know about the Thatcherite “hand-bag” economics. The ever-rising cost of […]
Marxists know well the state is not a neutral arbiter but a mechanism for managing the affairs of the capitalist class. While the state may exhibit relative autonomy, that is, it can act independently from capital, it functions, in the last instance, to reproduce the conditions for accumulation, whether state […]
China’s economy is now 23% larger than the US according to the IMF. China is the largest trading partner with Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Japan and third largest to the EU. The Belt and Road Initiative has gone from strength to strength since 2013 and is the centrepiece […]
In Gaza today, we are witnessing an atrocity: an attempt not merely to kill a people but to erase them. Whole families exterminated, hospitals turned to rubble, libraries turned to ash. This is not simply military conquest, it is the logic of settler colonialism: the logic of elimination. The goal […]
This year’s James Connolly Festival runs from Tuesday 6th to Sunday 11th May 2025 with almost all events taking place at Connolly House and The New Theatre. It will include a week-long James Connolly Art Exhibition. Seven artists have been invited to prepare prints and paintings that will be available […]
1800s British colonialism’s “hierarchy of races” saw white Europeans as superior peoples, followed by east Asians, with the Irish tied with Africans, coming just ahead of the Australian aborigines, who placed bottom of the ladder. This grotesque “race science” would be taken up and furthered by the Nazis later on, […]
Western Marxism (WM) by Dominico Losurdo, translated into English and published recently by Monthly Review, is an important work exposing the idealism, pro-imperialism and eurocentrism (i.e. the paternalistic approach towards struggles in the periphery) of western Marxists. In the introduction, the book explains that WM is not a geographical orientation […]
Ilan Pappé, as readers may know, is one of the most controversial of Israel’s “new historians” after having sacrificed his academic career there by publishing extensively on the buried history of the Nakba and challenging official Zionist accounts of the colonisation of Palestine. His most recent work, Lobbying for Zionism […]
By the end of China’s civil war in 1949, the country was severely damaged: its agriculture decimated, most transport routes destroyed, the industrial infrastructure looted by the Japanese. Despite chaos, poverty, and hunger, Mao Zedong successfully built a centrally planned economy and a self-reliant military. The first Five-Year Plan in […]
What lies behind the British Government’s announcement last month that it intends to commission the production of what is being described in Westminster as an “official history of UK government policy towards Northern Ireland during The Troubles”? Due to the nature of the commissioning process and the fact that this […]
Diarmaid Ferriter, who has come to be something resembling the public face of “History” in the respectable Irish media, has cannily inverted the title of his popular 2004 work The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 in his latest book The Revelation of Ireland 1995-2020, which represents a sequel of sorts outlining […]
The current coalition government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and motley crew of right-wing independent TDs has found itself embroiled in a bitter row with the opposition over speaking rights in the Dáil for those independents who support the government. At the same time as the Dáil was in “turmoil” […]
Investigating an Economic Alternative, Part 4 Over the past three articles, we have dismantled the myths of capitalist efficiency, exposed the failures of privatisation, and demonstrated the necessity of public ownership as a democratic imperative. We have argued that nationalisation of key sectors of the economy and the use of […]
In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of noise about instability in the NATO military alliance. The EU is up in arms about Trump’s diplomacy with Putin and US pronouncements that they may not defend NATO allies slacking on defence spending. Tánaiste Simon Harris said “a gulf […]
As recent announcements indicate, both the European Union and the British government have markedly oriented public spending policies towards militarisation. The North of our island has been a direct recipient of such expenditures, notably Thales in Belfast. Military expenditure historically plays three important roles in capitalist societies: it protects the […]
