Category: News & Analysis
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Kneecap witch hunt: the establishment are the real terrorists
Irish rap group Kneecap have been victims of a vicious smear campaign for supporting Palestine. This reeks of imperialist hypocrisy. It is the capitalist system and its politicians that have blood on their hands. Kneecap have nothing to apologise for.
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Class struggle not broad fronts will beat the far right
On Saturday 26 April, a large demonstration led by the far right marched through Dublin’s North Inner City. The turnout was significant: estimates range from 5,000 to as many as 10,000. In fact, this was four or five times larger than the previous biggest far-right led mobilisation.
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Pope Francis: friend of the poor?
On Monday 21 April, Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88. During his time at the Holy See, he had been charged with laundering the image of the Church, with giving it a ‘human face’, and stemming the crisis of that institution. Whatever else one thinks of him, he certainly executed his role…
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Irish Ruling Class vs. the Triple Lock
The question of Irish neutrality has once again burst to the fore with the government proposing a new bill that would remove the Triple Lock.
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Netanyahu resumes genocide to cling to power
Throughout Tuesday 18 March, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) launched barrages of bombs upon the people of Gaza, shattering the fragile ceasefire with a rain of death and destruction. Over 400 Palestinians were killed and more than 600 injured in the strikes, making it the single bloodiest day of Israel’s genocide since late 2023.
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Apprenticeships Ireland: A rigged system
To say that the apprenticeship system in Ireland is broken is quite the understatement. For anyone unfortunate enough to have slogged through the bureaucratic swamp that is SOLAS (who works with the educational training board in Ireland), like myself, will see it for what it truly is, a rigged system that serves no purpose other…
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2025 Perspectives for the Irish Revolution
The following document was passed unanimously at a recent meeting of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Ireland. Here, we offer our perspective and analysis of the main trends that are shaping Irish politics and the class struggle. The rise of imperialist tensions, the election of Donald Trump and the death throes of the…
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Trump’s presidency creates enormous turbulence across the world
The following is a serialisation of a speech on world perspectives, given on Tuesday 28 January at a meeting of the International Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International.
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Ireland’s role in the imperialist war machine
The Irish state has once again proved itself to be a faithful little servant to its Western imperialist masters. This time, through the aiding and abetting of the genocide of the Palestinian people at the blood soaked hands of Israel and its Western allies.
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Trump: US to ‘take over’ Gaza, expel 2 million and create ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ – real estate tycoon proposes a new Nakba
Late on 4 February, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump proposed that the US should take over Gaza and force the whole of its population (2 million Palestinians) to relocate to other “plots of land” (in Jordan and Egypt) so that the area could be rebuilt as…