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“Let me tell you a story, I’ll be quick as I can Terrible news from the Holy Land Pictures of children etched in my mind Buried in the rubble, on the firing line.” — Christy Moore, “Palestine” Christy Moore played a sold-out concert at the Keadeen Hotel in Droichead Nua […]
Does the concept of polycrisis capture the current conjuncture? The world is on fire. Every day we wake up to news of brutal wars, reckless environmental destruction, oligarchy brazenly flaunting its wealth and power amidst escalating economic inequality, election of politicians who are blatantly corrupt and hostile to the class […]
Sinéad O’Shea’s documentary All About the Money was screened in Dublin on 26 September as part of the IFI Documentary Festival 2026, followed by a Q&A with O’Shea. Her documentary is a story of Fergie Chambers, in particular following his activities in the period from 2023 to 2025. It premiered […]
On 22 September, the Chinese Embassy in Ireland hosted a reception marking the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The Communist Party of Ireland was honoured to accept the invitation of His Excellency Mr. Zhao Xiyuan, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ireland, […]
It is 1890. While Britain is aggressively expanding its global empire, its domestic industries are increasingly dominated by mechanised production and growing concentration of capital, and the industrial proletariat is increasingly alienated from the products of its labour. In The Commonweal, a utopia describes London in 2102: the Thames is […]
This is the third in a five-part series on the politics of power. Earlier articles asked what makes rights real and why some carry greater weight. This article examines the State and institutions through which those power relations are reproduced. One of the clearest moments when political power appears to […]
A chara, Many seem to believe that China holds the silver bullet for helping the Cuban Revolution, struggling at the moment against the intense and vicious US blockade, and threats of military invasion. This is a simplistic criticism of Beijing that essentially amounts to wanting China to do a deus […]
For most workers, whether living standards are improving comes down to something fairly tangible: what comes into the household and what has to go out again. A pay rise matters because it increases the claim a worker can make on the goods and services produced by society, but that gain […]
January 3, 2026, marked a turning point in Venezuela’s contemporary political history. The U.S. military intervention, the bombings of national territory, and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores constituted an open violation of sovereignty and gave way to a new balance of power, in which the United States […]
Turmoil has characterised international bond markets across September. As a reminder, governments borrow money mainly by issuing bonds. Investors lend money to governments, receiving interest in return, with the original sum repaid later. Bonds are bought by typically large financial institutions: banks, pension funds, insurance companies and investment funds. They […]
The Communist Party of Ireland calls for a sovereign, socialist, reunited Ireland. The CPI, in the tradition of Connolly, has always maintained that political independence from Britain would not in itself lead to genuine sovereignty. The history of the 26-county state bears this out. It has all the formal legal […]
Have pay increases for teachers kept pace with inflation over the last number of years? No, the same as the rest of the public service and, more broadly, most workers. Pay increases under the “Building Momentum” pay deal and the first two years of the Public Service Agreement 2024–26 amounted […]
On 27 September, the Swiss people voted on a popular initiative (propositional referendum) aimed at enshrining the country’s permanent neutrality in the Federal Constitution. The initiative was rejected, receiving 29.85% of the vote nationally, against 70.15%. Although the initiative originated primarily from the nationalist right wing, around businessman and former […]
Dear readers, I watched the EU State of the Union address so you don’t have to. Similar to the wearing of sashes by MEPs in parliament sessions, the annual address by the EU president is one of those unusual rituals which no EU citizen seems to know or care is […]
Ireland is approaching a significant confrontation between organised labour and the State. The public service pay agreement expired at the end of June, without a successor agreement or formal negotiations. Since then, unions representing workers across healthcare, education, local government, the civil service and State agencies have balloted their members […]
During his recent visit to Ireland, Donald Trump behaved much as expected. Unwilling to share the limelight, he stole attention from Shane Lowry, winner of the Irish Open, by announcing a lifting of tariffs on Irish whiskey exports to the USA. This populist gesture in Doonbeg was, however, superseded by […]