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I am standing outside the Dáil as I write this and not only are the Trinity Students' Union not present but have instead spent the day running ad-campaigns with local food chains on their Instagram story, their main form of communication to the student body.
Critical Analysis
Many on the left know of Karl Kautsky, but few understand him. He is denounced as a reformist and his politics as anathema, but the reality of the fact is that he is one architect of the European revolution of 1917.
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An ever growing critical mass of young students is drawing the correct conclusion that Trotskyism is a fifth column and an ideological disease that operates in the interests of capitalism and imperialism.
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This evening I was browsing Instagram when I saw a new article comparing Paul Murphy to Lizz Truss. Yusuf Murray criticised Paul’s call for a price cap on petrol and diesel. He accused the policy of being a blank cheque to Shell, BP and ExxonMobil.
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Saoirse Éireann’s response László Molnárfi’s speech to the “has the left failed the working class” debate defining her agreements and disagreements in a comradely manner.
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A price cap on oil is a blank cheque, signed by me and you, to the likes of Shell, BP and ExxonMobil.
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Internationalism, the holy gospel of the left, has been failing us here in Ireland. People have become so obsessed with the international issues that we are forgetting our own struggles. This reeks of the activism of the comfortable classes.
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
The real issue—both for those of us of a progressive persuasion and otherwise—is that we all see through Sinn Féin’s naked opportunism.
Recent years have seen the emergence of immigration as a major issue in Irish political discourse, coinciding with the rise of a serious right-wing populist movement in the country.
When the Left stops talking to working-class people, the Right step in.
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The Indo's polling just doesn't add up: at this margin of error, public support for the protests could be as low as 47.55%.
A post-Water Charges retreat to the cosy consensus of left liberalism, data-driven electoralism, and the reign of the slick SPAD has left us unable to run a bath.
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
We hope to see TrackRebel lay the foundation for the building of a mighty coalition of revolutionary groups and mass organisations in Ireland.
How we feel about the fuel protests doesn’t matter as much as the opportunity they have given us! If everyone, at this historical moment, rises up in unison and puts them under pressure, we all stand a better chance of winning our demands.
Since 2025, ICE has started perpetrating raids on Catholic Churches with 33% of Catholics being Latino this is likely to become increasingly more common.
The real issue—both for those of us of a progressive persuasion and otherwise—is that we all see through Sinn Féin’s naked opportunism.
A comprehensive Marxist analysis of the Irish movement against fuel prices, uncovering its class basis, political ideology, organizational methodology and world-economic origins, travelling from the base to the superstructure, the determined and contingent elements which make up its totality.
Hundreds of protestors descended on the capital today as anger over soaring fuel prices sparked widespread disruption across the city. With diesel and petrol prices reaching record highs in recent weeks, demonstrators from across Ireland gathered to demand urgent government action.
The left does not lose because its values are unpopular. It loses because it has grown better at talking to itself than anyone else.
This letter addresses the lack of genuine and fair coverage of the present disastrous, imposed war on Iran by the USA and Israel. What is shocking and sad to observe is the total lack of understanding and respect regarding the background to the Iranian position in this war.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The future of Ireland is to be determined by the revolutionary class struggle to come. The objective conditions for this revolutionary class struggle are to be found in the permanent crisis of capitalism.