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In memory of Leon Trotsky
On 21 August 1940 – 85 years ago today – Leon Trotsky died following an attack by a GPU assassin, on the orders of Stalin, the day before. This article by Alan Woods, commemorating Trotsky, was originally published in the…
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PSNI hypocrisy in Derry: UDA flags fly free, Palestine solidarity criminalised
Since British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and her crony pals in Westminster introduced legislation that categorised Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, there have been hundreds of arrests made across Britain and the North of Ireland.
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When British troops were sent onto Ireland’s streets
On 14 August 1969, British troops were deployed onto the streets of the North of Ireland. Operation Banner had begun. At the time, some mistakenly believed they were there to bring peace. The Marxists warned they would bring no such…
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James Connolly – A chapter of horrors: Daniel O’Connell and the working class
Daniel O’Connell was born in Kerry 250 years ago as of this week. Hailed in the history books as “The Liberator”, O’Connell’s record in fighting for the oppressed Irish masses is not as straightforward as we are initially made to…
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Lenin and the importance of the workers’ press
“Out of this spark will come a flame.” Such was the strapline of Lenin’s newspaper Iskra (‘Spark’), which he founded in 1900 with a small group of comrades. How true those words were! Only 17 years later, Lenin and the…
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Letter: storms, Ireland’s cities, and the mounting climate catastrophe
We are publishing the following letter, recently received from an activist with the Revolutionary Communists of Ireland and a reader of The Revolutionary Communist. The letter, written in the wake of the disaster provoked by Storm Éowyn, highlights the catastrophic…
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