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I remember Fatima Mansions flats had a live-in caretaker when I was there as a kid. They removed the caretakers as part of a general attack on social housing. At the start of the 1980s, they were building 8,000 homes a year; by the end, it was just 800. They […]
Since February 2025, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has presented itself as a relief initiative to ease hunger and suffering in Gaza, promising food, water, medicine, and shelter while blocking aid from reaching Hamas. Yet, this condition revealed its deeper purpose: aid transformed into a political weapon to reshape Palestinian […]
As Communists, we should not be surprised by the rise of right-wing and neo-fascist groups in an orchestrated fashion all over the world, because fascism raises its head when capitalism is in decay. When the ruling class is no longer able to rule by persuasion, it uses coercion to maintain capitalist accumulation. […]
The Presidential election provides all those who are concerned about Irish neutrality and the Triple Lock with an opportunity to raise this critical issue. On Friday the 24th of October, we will be asked to vote for a new President of the State after the current holder of the office, […]
Many working families will face very difficult choices this coming winter regarding putting food on the table or heating their homes. The unit rates for electricity, as well as the standing charges, will each increase by 9.5%. While the price of food continues to increase, between June 2024 and June 2025 food and non-alcoholic […]
Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 in Martinique, a French colony where formal citizenship masked systemic racial inequality. Though raised in a prosperous Black family and steeped in Enlightenment ideals, Fanon became disillusioned during World War II. Joining the Free French forces in 1943, he encountered severe racism within the […]
I am not embarrassed by the Irish tri-colour. I am not ashamed of the Irish tri-colour. I never was and I never will be. I am proud of what it stands for, I am proud of its meaning and I am proud of its history. At the same time I […]
Dear Comrade, The August issue of Socialist Voice published an excellent piece by Niall Cullinane entitled ‘Stalling into Oblivion’, which outlined the stagnating tendency of contemporary capitalism and the decline of GDP growth decade by decade since the 1960s. The article ended with a slight nod to those who may favour ‘degrowth’ […]
With the traditional Orange marching season now ended, it is timely to review certain events in the North. Unlike times past when assessing summer in the six counties, this year attention has turned towards differences within sections of the pro-union community rather than confrontations with their neighbours. To be precise, […]
Twenty years ago, on 16 September 2005, Terence Wheelock died after weeks in a coma. He’d been arrested on 2 June 2005 and taken to Store Street Garda station in Dublin’s north inner city. The Guards claimed he hung himself. But their story didn’t add up. The Wheelock family have […]
The Alaska Summit between the USA and the Russian Federation carried historic weight. It was not just another diplomatic meeting; it symbolised the irreversible declaration that the Zionist-dominated Western unipolar world is finished. The central issue was the Ukrainian conflict, under the motto of “pursuing peace”. On the table sat […]
In past centuries, Ireland endured one of the harshest colonial experiences in European history. During the British era, Irish farmers saw their lands confiscated and were forcibly displaced from their farms to make way for Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. This policy—known as the Plantation Policy—entailed the large-scale seizure […]
The struggle for Irish sovereignty, encompassing national reunification and the defence of Irish neutrality, is more than an Irish or a regional issue. It represents a potential front in the global confrontation against a US-led imperialist bloc, spearheaded by NATO and the EU, which is preparing for war against Russia […]
The brutal attack and humiliation of an Indian immigrant in Tallaght, based on false narratives, is contemptible and abominable. There have been racially motivated attacks in Ballymena earlier, and violence targeting immigrants in Dublin a year ago. What used to be isolated attacks are growing into an epidemic; a Pakistani […]
Last month’s spectacular collapse of Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has felled one of the last bastions of Latin America’s “Pink Tide”, dealing a devastating blow to the country’s indigenous, peasant, and working classes. Now, Bolivians must choose between two right-wing candidates in the country’s first-ever runoff elections, while progressive […]
Migration has become one of the sharpest dividing lines in Irish politics. Across estates, villages, and towns, people feel the crunch of housing shortages, collapsing health services, and precarious work. The far right has seized on these frustrations, directing anger at migrants instead of profiteers. Meanwhile, parts of the left […]