From Paris To Dublin: What Ireland Can Learn From France's Protest Movement

If Ireland wants to take advantage of the wave of revolt in Europe, comrades of all fashions and occupations need to join together in a unitary struggle. After all, their grievances share the same root, which is the capitalists’ exploitation of the working class. 

RSYM Condemn Sinn Féin Capitulation To The Poppy in Belfast City Hall

The annual Remembrance Sunday spectacle at Belfast City Hall has once again laid bare the deepening political chasm within Irish republicanism. This reality was sharply articulated this week by the RSYM in a blistering social media rebuke of Sinn Féin’s participation.

The Left Must Stop Ceding Nationalistic Imagery To The Right

“Operation: Raise the Colours” was an initiative started by right-wing actors in the United Kingdom to fly the national flag. The knee-jerk reaction of the liberal left, and its media apparatus in both cases was to disavow the nationalistic imagery in full, essentially ceding it to the Right.

My Father, A Professor Who Lost Five Of His Children And Kept Researching

Caught between grief and a brutal reality, he faced a question he had never imagined having to answer: how does a person go on living after losing everything he holds dear? Even so, Abd Rabou did not abandon science.

Three Living Souls: What Irish Marxists Can Learn From Mao Zedong Thought

Irish Marxism, and the Irish Left in general has long suffered from a handful of core issues that, when examined, can be at least partially rectified by application of Mao Zedong thought.

The Principal Contradiction Is Irish Self-Determination

We do not exercise sovereignty and are hemmed in through the treaties and structures of the EU. We do not control our own currency, borders, foreign affairs, defence or capital regulation.

Cherry Orchard And The Anti-Social Behaviour of the Free State

What we are not shown is Cherry Orchard as a product of capitalism. The estate was built in the 1980s without a school, abandoned to heroin and unemployment, and left to inherit trauma, addiction, and despair.

Chair Of Asylum Appeals Body Ignored Complaint Over Far-Right Activist

The chairperson of Ireland’s International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) ignored a formal complaint about far-right activist Brenda Power, it was revealed in the Dáil this week.

Scrapping The Triple Lock Marks Ireland's Final Surrender To Imperialism

What the abolition of the Triple Lock reveals is that we have entered a new period in which even symbolic gestures towards neutrality can no longer be tolerated.  As the world accelerates towards war the ambiguity granted by imperialism to small states such as Ireland has expired.

Mac Suibhne: The Prose of Revolt

Terence MacSwiney/Mac Suibhne is known as the revolutionary parliamentarian and Lord Mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike at Brixton Prison in 1920, a martyr whose 74-day fast became a global emblem of resistance to the British Empire and imperialism.

'Fake News' Expert's Fake PhD Prompts Serious Questions For Universities

The Irish state media, RTE, reported that the prominent academic Tom Felle had faked his academic credentials. He has no doctorate and yet was employed by University of  Galway as a senior lecturer and was lauded as an expert on Fake News.

Liberation Theology: A Real Alternative to ‘Evangelical’ Influence in Ireland?

Ireland’s contemporary crises - housing precarity, the unfinished reckoning with institutional abuse, climate injustice, and the systematic neglect of the most vulnerable - demand precisely the analysis and commitment that liberation theology provides.