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Two grassroots protest campaigns are currently challenging the deep complicity of Irish sporting institutions in normalising the Israeli state’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. The Allianz Amach or Drop Allianz campaign, rooted in Cumann Luthchleas Gael (GAA), and the Stop The Game campaign, targeting the Football Association of Ireland, represent vital and courageous […]
The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the resolution passed by the “European Parliament” calling on the EU to impose sanctions on Cuba. In particular, we condemn the support given to this resolution by a number of Irish MEPs. The proposed sanctions have no basis in international law and are in […]
The recent rioting and pogrom in Belfast was met with the trite, facile interpretations and responses we have grown all too used to hearing. Proffered explanations ranged from attributing the violence to trouble-stirring social media postings, to loyalist paramilitary intervention, to lax border controls accommodating freeloading, dangerous foreigners (invariably dark-skinned). […]
Power BalladBy Tomás Ó BraonáinDir: John Carney (2026) What if you made something, and it was taken from you? What if you had to watch the thing you brought into existence generates enormous profits; none of which made their way back to you? Would it affect your conception of yourself? […]
As we move into the summer, developments demonstrate continuing instability and geopolitical reorganisation of global capitalism. Throughout May and June, inflation remained stubbornly above target. As the business press reports, capitalists are no longer assuming an automatic return to the ultra-low-inflation world that characterised the 2010s; access to cheap capital […]
The dystopian fiction of imperialism, which began with Jack London’s Iron Heel, has returned with a vengeance in the 2020s, increasingly recognised in international literary awards. From Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song (2023 Booker Prize) to Ali Smith’s Gliff (2026 Dublin Literary Award), novelists imagine futures that feel uncomfortably close to the present. Yet where Lynch’s […]
There are now over two thousand entire homes available for short-term rental sa Ghaeltacht, in the very same areas where the Irish language is so threatened and supposed to be protected. And as the likes of Airbnb grow year on year — with an increase of 88% in the number of […]
The latest event in the series of Connolly Conversations, public meetings on current topics held in Connolly Books in Dublin, focused on the developments in the Western Balkans. This term, rather popular in geostrategic parlance of the European Union, denotes the still-not-EU territories in the Balkans. While the protests in […]
The Dublin Cuban Film Festival returns for its third year this July, screening at The New Theatre in Temple Bar and supported by the Communist Party of Ireland and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). The festival opens with the Irish premiere of Cuba After Castro (Thursday 23 July, […]
At the end of June, the Communist Party of Ireland had the privilege of hosting an intimate morning event with Elizabeth Ribalta from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), during her travels around Ireland and the UK. The event happened just days after Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel […]
Rioting, violence, racist attacks, attacks on homes, forcing people out of communities, thuggery, attacks on workers took place over a few nights from 9 June, largely concentrated in Belfast and in loyalist-dominated areas. Thanks to decent people, across all communities, and organised opposition, it did not spread much or last […]
We are witnessing a full-court press of business lobbying against workers’ rights – specifically, for the focus of this article, but against so-called ‘gold-plated’ regulations more generally. Pay Transparency is meant to be legislated for and in place from June by the Government in Dublin. However, they have now said […]
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 […]
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 […]