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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 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 […]
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 […]