Category: News & Analysis
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Time to evict capitalism
The Irish government’s pathetic attempts to solve the housing crisis in Ireland are continually proving to be abysmal failures for workers and young people. Far from delivering homes en masse, these ‘solutions’ are lining the pockets of landlords and developers at the brutal expense of workers and of the youth in particular. Homelessness continues to…
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North of Ireland strike: Workers rise up against Tory ransom
Last Thursday, on 18 January, 170,000 workers from across the public sector, represented by 16 trade unions, took to the streets of the North of Ireland en masse to voice their anger and frustration at the decaying standards of living that are being felt by workers, and even by the middle classes. This was one…
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After Dublin riot: crush seed of far right before it takes root
Shocking scenes have rocked Dublin. Far-right goons – showing their true, putrid colours – have used the stabbing of five people outside a school, including three children, to blame migrants and whip up mob violence.
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Palestine: what can a communist do in Ireland
At the time of writing, more than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli forces since October 7. At least 4,000 of them were children. 600,000 have been made homeless.
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Down with hypocrisy! Defend Gaza! – RCI statement
The following statement by the Revolutionary Communist International declares our solidarity with the Palestinian people. It answers the disgusting hypocrisy of western imperialism and its lackeys, who are rallying behind the reactionary Israeli state as it unleashes bloody vengeance on Gaza, following Hamas’ surprise attack on 7 October.
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Why I left People Before Profit and joined the Irish Marxists
A comrade from the Irish Marxists explains why he left People Before Profit (PBP), Ireland’s largest self-styled ‘Marxist’ organisation, to join the International Marxist Tendency. Unsatisfied with a lack of attention to theory and the electoral reformism of PBP, Nathan explains why the IMT in contrast fits the bill as the serious, revolutionary outfit he…
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Build a Marxist Student Society
Before the summer, our comrades in Trinity college set about organising a Marxist society on campus. We collected signatures of interested students, and requested a meeting with the Central Society Committee (CSC) – a student body who apparently gets to decide what societies are or are not allowed to operate in Trinity.
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Crisis of Unionism: Reckoning with the betrayal of Britain
The world bore witness to historic defeats for Unionism in the latest Assembly and Council elections which propelled Sinn Féin to the biggest party on both occasions. This situation is hurling the DUP and Unionism into an ever deepening quagmire. Many Unionist workers and youth feel abandoned by the DUP due to the ever increasing…
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The waning sham ‘neutrality’ of the Irish ruling class
The right-wing coalition government of Varadkar and Martin has decided that now is the time to test the water on ditching so-called Irish ‘neutrality’. No doubt they would love to bounce Ireland into NATO, finally ending decades of sham neutrality in favour of open recognition of the 26-county state’s actual position: that of a pawn…
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The Good Friday Agreement: a quarter century of dashed hopes
This week, 25 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) was signed in Belfast. Heralding it as nothing less than the beginning of a new epoch for the North of Ireland, the British and Irish government signatories – along with its American architects – were inebriated with their own ‘success’. ‘History’ had been made!