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May I beg to differ with the carefully created mainstream media consensus surrounding Micheál Martin’s meeting last month with US president Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance? Ireland’s establishment media took the view that the Taoiseach had very skilfully handled an incredibly challenging situation and had, thankfully, exited the […]
Since plants have to mate and produce offspring while rooted to the spot, they have to be pollinated: by wind, water, or animals – most commonly insects. They use a surprising array of tricks to attract pollinators: striking colours, iridescent light effects and enticing scents, to name but a few. […]
What distinguishes Marxist-Leninist parties from others on the “Left”? How do we differ from the various types of Social Democratic, Anarchist or Trotskyist parties? A central difference, perhaps the central difference, is our understanding of the process of historical change. We study society through the prism of dialectical and historical […]
First covered in The Irish Times in 2017, sex-for-rent is periodic news fodder and is a lasting, if not growing, feature of the rental market in Ireland. Predatory landlords advertise properties either specifying women tenants only or merely dismissing messages from men, and then as the prospective tenant arrives, they […]
Despite Wahhabi jihadist Jolani’s assurances that minorities would be safe in new Syria, Alawite communities have been subject to a number of massacres since December 2024. On 4th March, Jolani’s gangs of the so-called “new Syria” regime launched a campaign against Alawites in the Daatour neighbourhood of Latakia. Mainstream media […]
Comrades from the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) recently participated in a series of events in Tarancón, Jarama, Madrid and Co Tyrone organised by Friends of the International Brigades Ireland (FIBI) to commemorate the heroic sacrifices of the International Brigades in the Spanish Anti-Fascist War 1936-1939. The International Brigades were […]
In 19th-century England, a new realism in painting emerged, driven by the country’s advanced capitalist development compared to the European continent. Landscape painting became the hallmark of this realism, particularly with William Turner (1775–1851). Turner’s work sought to capture the immense forces of nature while reflecting social transformations. A lifelong […]
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, authors of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, successfully cover an impressive range of topics in a coherent, extremely readable volume. When we speak of the book’s readability, in this case it is a testament to superb skill in using technical language when […]
The women of the Communist Party of Ireland would like to offer our deepest solidarity with the Mothers Against Genocide group, we share the outrage felt across the solidarity movement at your horrific treatment. In your fight to expose the genocide currently being carried out by the Zionist occupation against […]
It was the 8th of March in 1917, in the midst of World War I, when women workers took to the streets with the cry of “Peace, Land and Bread” and began the process of the Russian Revolution. Women have since remained at the forefront of the anti-war struggle, here […]
Indisputably, the exploitation of women under capitalism is deeply rooted in the class structure of society and the economic system itself, and even a rudimentary class analysis quickly reveals how capitalism perpetuates and benefits from the oppression of women, particularly working-class women. Under capitalism women must battle with the dual […]
Investigating an Economic Alternative, Part 3 In the previous two articles a case for public ownership has been made based on the economic and social benefits of taking key industries into public ownership[1]. In this article we will explore the theme of democracy and the deepening of democratic principles through […]
The war between NATO/EU and Russia continues but an end seems in sight. However, whether the war ends soon, or whether the EU and Britain manage to prolong it, the future for Ukraine looks bleak. Its ruling class has been a willing pawn in US plans to reimpose its dominance […]
The supposed dynamism of capitalism, a system celebrated for its unrelenting drive towards production and accumulation, is now facing another unravelling of its contradictions. The mirage of a post-pandemic recovery has stalled, revealing a toxic brew of stagnating growth, persistent inflation, and an out-of-control tech and AI bubble: classic stagflation […]
Are we are now seeing a different side of Donald Trump? Is this to be the no-nonsense bringer of peace to Eastern Europe. The man who will end the NATO-led proxy war against Russia. There can be little doubt that the US president has dramatically altered the situation vis-a-vis Ukraine […]
In an attempt to “Make America Great Again”(MAGA), Trump deported 104 “illegal” migrants to India on 5th February 2025, handcuffed and with ankles chained in a military aircraft. Colombia condemned similar action towards their citizens but the right-wing government in India, in its subservience to US imperialism, has not uttered […]