Critical Analysis
From Armalites to Armani Suits: How Sinn Féin Betrayed the Revolution
Sinn Féin's story illustrates how a revolutionary movement abandoned its socialist ideals and the working class that built it.
Critical Analysis
Sinn Féin's story illustrates how a revolutionary movement abandoned its socialist ideals and the working class that built it.
Critical Analysis
The Ukrainian people are fighting back against Zelensky. Every single day, more videos emerge of civilians intervening in abductions, pulling men free, surrounding conscription vehicles, refusing to let their neighbours be taken to die in the proxy war.
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Dolly belonged to a different America: an America of 2 room log cabins and no running water, of fathers paying the doctor with bags of cornmeal, of women clocking into whatever work they could get to support themselves and their families and being paid less for it.
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A British multinational grocery supermarket, Tesco, fired an employee at its branch in Naas for taking baked pastries 40 minutes before they went ‘free for staff’.
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Where is Ireland's solidarity? Where is the voice of the self-identified left? The revolutionary asylum seeker must be granted protection immediately. O'Callaghan must refuse to be a deportation agent for the Erdogan regime.
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The question that is worth asking is can digital technology be made to play an effective and progressive role for us and our communities. Participants of the Consensus UX project are trying to develop a way that we could.
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The government of the Narcos’ lawyer has been in power for only a short while and it has already shown its lack of administrative ability and at the same time its ironclad alliance with Narcos, right-wing paramilitaries and of course, Israel.
West German denazification was a failure and this is the result of it. By 1951, the Allies had handed denazification over to German authorities, who passed amnesty laws that reinstated thousands of Nazi judges, prosecutors, and civil servants into the very institutions now prosecuting the Ulm 5.
In July 2026, transphobic lawfare threatened Féile an Phobail. A British billionaire was writing blank cheques to stamp down on a working-class Irish community for the crime of refusing to platform a British organisation pushing a British culture-war.
A crowd of demonstrators carrying republican flags protested in Bishop Street as the 18-year old appeared at Derry Magistrate's Court today and was charged with wearing a T-shirt purporting to show support for a proscribed organisation, namely the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
Two Dublin republicans, Isobella Perrie Sullivan and Simon Ó Donnabháin, were arrested on July 22nd and subsequently appeared in court, charged with facilitating the movement of what Gardaí described as a "highly sophisticated" bomb.
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Tipperary Neutrality Network in Coordination with Cork Action Against War have reaffirmed its commitment to protecting Ireland’s neutrality following two important public events this summer: our Public Information Talk on 13 July and our March and Rally on 15 August.
Our government has repeatedly claimed to be doing ‘all it can’ for Palestine. But when you look beyond the speeches, beyond the flag waving in the Dáil, beyond the press releases, what you find is a government that is consistently, almost pathologically, unwilling to take meaningful action.
The European Commission has been secretly negotiating an agreement with Israel's police service that would allow the wholesale transfer of sensitive personal data from EU systems to Israeli authorities, covering biometric information, genetic data, location tracking, political opinions, and more.
The Communist Party of Ireland has expressed its solidarity with the workers and families affected after news that Aer Lingus is preparing for mass layoffs, while noting that it is urging Irish trade unions to demand nationalisation.
90-year-old Operation Harvest veteran Séamus Ó Líonacháin is campaigning for the Catholic Church to lift historic excommunications imposed on Irish Republicans and issue a formal apology. Republican Sinn Féin is now calling on supporters to back his campaign and write directly to Pope Leo XIV.
Socialist republicans have condemned the National Party for its ‘anti-community behaviour’ after one of their stickers allegedly stuck up with a razor blade injured a member of the public attempting to remove it, while others have slammed the incident as ‘absolute low life Nazi behaviour’.
CATU is asking members of the public to share the social media post and tag the landlord @johnfloodmenswearltd to let him know Wicklow is watching. For residents of Wicklow Town, CATU is asking that people drop into the landlord’s shop, John Flood Menswear.
Republicanism should not be a cult. It should be a living political tradition, capable of growth, capable of change, and capable of admitting when it went badly wrong.
I think the Left has a strange relationship with criticism. We are very good at demanding that powerful institutions listen to their critics. What we are less good at is listening when the criticism is directed at us.
The Labour Party supported the FF/FG agenda of licking Nama’s, the IMF’s and the EU’s balls without any resistance.
My response challenges Corkery on two fronts: historically, the portrayal of 1940s Republicanism as regressive overlooks its ideological nuance and decontextualizes evidence, and philosophically, I question whether anti-fascism is the right lens through which to judge Republicanism.
Seán Russell’s military strategy can be criticised without diminishing the courage, constancy and sacrifice that defined his life. His cooperation with Nazi Germany did not make him a Nazi, but reflected a longstanding Republican tradition of seeking foreign assistance against Britain.