Category: News & Analysis
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Communists and elections: parliament, positions, and the party
In the British general election, the Revolutionary Communist Party, only 8 weeks after its founding, ran the most successful revolutionary communist election campaign in decades. Fiona, candidate of the RCP, received 1,791 votes for an openly revolutionary programme. This is an excellent result, but the reason communists participate in elections is to raise their programme…
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Cathal Crotty walks free: overthrow this sexist system!
The despicable spectacle of Cathal Crotty, a soldier in the Irish Defence Forces, walking free after having brutally beaten Natasha O’Brien unconscious has led to an outpour of anger and protests across Ireland.
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The Kenyan Revolution has begun
Today, the hated Finance Bill 2024, which sparked an unprecedented movement of Kenyan youth last week, was brought before parliament for its third and final reading. Before the session began, enormous throngs were descending on Nairobi Central Business District, heading for the parliament building. At 2.15pm, MPs passed the bill by 195 votes to 106.…
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The Revolutionary Communist International has arrived!
After a fantastic week of revolutionary ideas and inspirational reports from all over the world; following many months of preparation by thousands of comrades in dozens of countries; the founding conference of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) concluded with a unanimous vote to launch this new International. But this is just the beginning. We are…
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Launch of the Revolutionary Communist – The Communists are Here!
We are proud to announce the launch of the new quarterly publication of the Revolutionary Communists of Ireland: The Revolutionary Communist. Read the editorial of the first issue below, and get in touch to order your copy now! You can also pick up a yearly subscription for 10 euros, or pay a solidarity subscription of…
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Sinn Féin bruised at local elections
With a few votes still to count the writing is already on the wall for the local and European elections. A seething anti-establishment mood runs deep through Ireland today. On the surface, the local election results have turned out as a repetition of the 2019 ones with only independents making any substantial gains. But beneath…
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James Connolly and the struggle for Irish independence
The great revolutionary James Connolly was born 156 years ago today to Irish parents in Edinburgh. Connolly grew to be the greatest Marxist ever produced by these islands; an iconic figure in the history of the Irish working class. Executed by the British army in 1916 following his leading role in the Easter Rising, Connolly’s…
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The wrong argument for a united Ireland
A recent, much-publicised study by a Dublin-based think tank, the IIEA, has concluded that the cost of the South of Ireland absorbing the North after a future unity referendum would be enormous. If their figures are to be believed, it would cost €20 billion per year for 20 years, which would translate into a 25…
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Revolutionary Communists of Ireland hold founding congress!
On 6 and 7 April, communists from across Ireland gathered in Dublin for the founding Congress of the Irish group of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). We were joined by international visitors from the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain and the international centre of the IMT.
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Donaldson gone: DUP stares into the abyss
The political landscape in the North of Ireland has been blown wide open by the shocking arrest of DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who has been charged with historic sexual offences. Like a bolt from a clear blue sky, Unionism has been struck a mighty blow. The ranks of the DUP have been left in total…