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The political situation in Haiti has led to a surge in gang violence. This has led to attacks on aircraft and the closing of Haiti’s largest international airport. The increase in gang violence has also disrupted humanitarian organisations that are currently in Haiti, such as Partners in Health, known as […]
The Labour Party contains many good members. There are plenty of genuine left-wingers in the Labour Party in Ireland today; however, those people are not leading the party. The Labour Party has not been committed to a genuine socialist republic since Connolly was shot and Larkin went off to America, […]
Can there be a world based on equality? People living in countries benefiting from imperialism to justify that inequality might say no, it’s impossible. But the people in poor countries may ask, at least can there be a just world? After World War 2, when global hegemony shifted from Britain […]
Declan Kearney, Sinn Féin MLA writing in the An Phoblacht paper, is wondering out loud about a “left Republican alliance being the way forward”. Interesting though that he didn’t say that a Socialist Republican alliance is the way forward! There’s a big difference between the ‘Liberal Left’ approach and a […]
The German military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz famously declared “war is a continuation of politics by other means”. Lenin, like all good Marxists, took this insightful analysis and added class to its understanding stating war as a part of class politics: “we understand the inevitable connection between wars and the […]
Recently China made a bond sale in Saudi Arabia. While perhaps not particularly notable on the surface, if we dig a little deeper, we can see some signs of China’s broader geopolitical goals being played out. China has long called for a global system of cooperation, based on the UN […]
The Communist Party of Ireland sends revolutionary greetings to Ireland’s working class, family farmers, students and apprentices, and to all those forces fighting to create a better future for our people. The coming year will see continued attacks upon the living standards of our class and further degradation of health […]
The outcome of the general election in the 26 counties will do nothing to solve the multiple crises of homelessness, health provision, rising prices and precarious employment facing many urban and rural working-class communities. Nor will it deal with the continuing erosion of democracy which sees the Irish government unable […]
While the Western bourgeois elite is slowly being overwhelmed by panic over the impending defeat of NATO in Ukraine, on other continents, the peoples of the world are raising their heads and taking advantage of the weakness of imperialism, demanding their rightful place in the arena of history. From 25th […]
“To the political parties, social and popular movements, progressive and leftist forces and the world movement of solidarity with Cuba, To friends of Cuba in the world in general, Since the previous administration of President Donald Trump, the economic, commercial and financial blockade measures imposed by the United States government […]
Comrade Gearóid Ó Machail, SIPTU NIDC Workplace Representative and National Executive Committee member of the Communist Party of Ireland, succeeded in having the below resolution passed at the recent NIC-ICTU Biennial Delegates Conference in the Guildhall, Derry. MOTION: This motion calls on ICTU to lead an active campaign to highlight […]
In the past few months, two important contributions to Irish sports history hit the shelves of bookshops around the country. Labelling these books as Irish sports history is potentially reductive, as both authors make it very clear that the history they write is a shadow of what we would call […]
On 10th December 2024, Han Kang will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the second South Korean and the first Asian woman to receive this honour. Known for her focus on South Korea’s complex history of violence, oppression, and resistance, Kang’s win resonates powerfully with progressives, as […]
Europe in the mid-19th century experienced widespread political upheaval. The Revolutions of 1848, which swept across France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy, demanded political reform and national self-determination. While most of these revolts failed in the short term, they exposed tensions between conservative monarchies and the bourgeoisie, who pushed for […]
The 26 counties has a rapidly ageing population. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the amount of the population aged 65 or over grew 40% between 2013-2023, from 569,000 to 806,000. By 2051, the number will double to 1.6 million. As with everything in this country, the lack of […]
The terms left and right originated following the French Revolution. In the French national assembly, the right comprised aristocrats and the rich. The left comprised the poor and working class who demanded democracy and wanted more tax on the rich. Throughout history, the concept of left and right has changed, […]