They Are Killing the Dogs, They Are Killing the Cats: The Calculating Cruelty of Colonial Deflection
An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion.
Why the Bourgeois Press Still Smears Us
The bourgeois press does not defend democracy or the national interests, it defends property. Its moral outrage is selective. When power drops bombs, it calls it “defence”. When the powerless resist, it calls it “terrorism”. When elites break laws, it calls them “reforms”. When ordinary people rise up, it calls them “riots”.
Corporate Power in Ireland Under Scrutiny at Maynooth University Report Launch
A new report examining the extent of corporate influence over Irish public policy and everyday life was launched at an event in Dublin this week, drawing activists, researchers and independent media to discuss what authors describe as a growing democratic deficit in Ireland.
Healthcare Assistants at Northside Home Care Services to Begin Indefinite Strike Over Pay Dispute
Interview with IWU media spokesperson from Northside Homecare Services healthcare assistants on strike.
Social Conservatives Should Embrace Anti-Imperialism
The first-order consequences of imperial wars, most evidently the mass displacement of peoples, have direct effects on Europe’s material conditions, including migration pressures that people debate about yet too rarely trace back to their structural causes.
Murder is a Sin, to Migrate is Not
This universal mission still has meaning in the 21st century, a century of unparalleled greed. This is a century of capitalist turmoil and naked imperialism, a century of ever increasing inequality. The goal of Vatican II remains.
We Don’t Need The Plebs: How the Left Left the Working Class Behind
From the moment Two Jags Prescott declared, “We’re all middle-class now”, people like Gerry simply ceased to exist in the eyes of progressive and left-of-centre hacks. For a while, this cost progressive politics nothing: people like Gerry didn’t engage anyway. Until they did: with votes for Brexit, with a cruel witch hunt of Trans people, with wildfire riots on the streets of Stockport.
The Fall of the Woke Left
Woke left ideology begins when the movement stops centering the worker in their socialist activism. Protecting the rights of minority workers is always going to be of the highest importance but that struggle can only be fought by acknowledging people not just as whatever minority group they are part of but acknowledging them as a fellow worker and as comrade in the struggle for a 32 county democratic socialist Irish republic!
The Demise of the Old Guard
I leave this article with concrete suggestions as to what the Irish Left should laser-focus on in its messaging if it wishes to recapture the imagination of the people. The text here is exact. Wording is the most important in the production of propaganda.