The Performative Left and Right Are as Bad as Each Other

Each country adapts the culture war to their own conditions. While the same political and financial elites are as firmly entrenched as ever, serving multinational corporations and US-led western imperialism, a circus of performativity is dominating public life. 

Against The Politics of Permanent Reaction

As a grassroots (unfunded) working-class anti-imperialist organisation, we do not deny the importance of anti-racist mass mobilisation. But we must ask why outrage continues to emerge in fragmented, selective bursts that leave both the underlying social order untouched, and activists exhausted.

HSE and Pharma Lobby Delay Another Lifesaving Drug

The HSE, stuck price haggling with a multinational pharmaceutical lobby consuming taxpayer money, declines to reimburse the only medication for a rare chronic disease.

Matt Carthy should learn from Starmer’s mistakes

When it comes to trusting people with our votes, at least, anti-immigration sentiment remains a minority camp in Ireland. 

“It’s Hard To See How She Survives This”: Shinners Turn on Mary Lou

Sinn Féin members are expressing increasing discontent with the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald after poor results in the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections.

Gardaí and Private Security’s Bogland Eviction Attempt Met With Resistance

A tense standoff looks to be continuing over the weekend between locals and the forces of the State at the Garrymore Bog in County Laois. 

Covalen Workers On Strike Against Job Cuts

At a protest outside the Dáil today, campaigners called on Enterprise Minister Peter Burke to intervene over hundreds of planned redundancies at Covalent.

EU Bureaucrats Force Closure Of Popular Dublin Café

The Silk Road Café is being forced to close by state and EU bureaucrats as part of the draconian security measures being erected around Dublin Castle.

Video Captures Gardaí Harassing Inner City Youth, Sparking Outrage

A video circulating online has reignited debate over Garda stop-and-search tactics after footage appeared to show two Gardaí physically confronting and threatening a young Irish teenager during an incident in Dublin.

Our Anti-Racist Movement Needs To Fight The Disease Of Neoliberalism

Today I attended the unity protest following the murder of Yves Sakila by the Arnotts security staff. Death at the hands of private security staff is not unprecedented here, in the past few years at least two other men have been killed by overly-aggressive night club bouncers.

Brown Envelopes, Bags of Brown, Brownshirts, and Bertie: A Unified Timeline of How Dublin Became Patient Zero for Reaction

Bertie swapped brown envelopes while in power for political capital on hate against brown and black people. Irony: he and FF built the crises they blame on immigrants. The Irish right blaze a path for FF rule at the expense of everyone darker than milky tea.

"Cynical" Pamphlet By Lord Mayor Sparks Backlash

“It is cynical because he is not advocating for himself or his party, he is threatening neglect. That he is the feckin mayor as well makes it hilariously cynical, ” wrote one person.