Critical Analysis
Though a great deal is often placed in economic analysis on the influence that US FDI exerts over the economy, the continued exertion of British financial control is often overlooked.
Critical Analysis
Over a hundred years later, large estates and the remaining landlord interests of families of British aristocratic origin still figure prominently in the Irish landscape and, in some cases, the rental economy.
Critical Analysis
The City of Cork remains scarred by vacant and derelict properties that sit idle, while thousands struggle to find housing. Notably, anti-dereliction campaigners documented approximately 450 derelict units within two kilometres of the city centre.
News
Over 300,000 workers from every corner and end of the public sector are on strike today in the most widespread industrial action since 2009, demanding pay talks in the face of shrinking pay packets due to the cost of living and housing crises.
Critical Analysis
We will not allow labourites to smear us for refusing to let them justify the imprisonment of communists in Ukraine or over us attempting to save rural Limerick on the issue of Aughinish Alumina.
Letters
We first have to acknowledge the dubious stink around Aontacht. There is smelly reactionary shite in its past and comment sections. To allow these non-materialist explanations and framings on the site would be a sincere disservice to our readership.
News
Workers in the Tullow Credit Union have been forced to escalate their industrial action in the face of an intransigent management. They are on the picket line this Friday and upcoming Monday.
We encourage Aontacht readers to join the ‘Revolutionary Bloc’ at the protest which opposes not merely Trump, but NATO, the EU and the US Empire altogether, as well as the British occupation of the 6 counties.
How can a student in Gaza be asked to provide complex and unrealistic documents and papers, while we are living under the weight of a war and genocide that has stretched on for three years?
The divisions in People Before Profit have a material base and a political significance for the socialist movement.
The Western Left must stop backing Zelensky's conscription machine. Ukraine is not a sovereign country. The people of Donbass, terrorised by Kiev, should be left alone; the real task is decolonising a Brussels-controlled Ukraine from IMF/EU/US rule and its far-right collaborators.
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Anti-imperialist activists and socialist republicans blockaded the embassy for a brief period of time, before being violently removed, dragged into vans and arrested by the Gardaí. They were pepper-sprayed directly in their faces, and one had their leg broken.
The Office of Public Works has issued a tender worth €295,000 for prospective contractors to oversee a “national conversation” about the GPO. The tender follows several scandals involving the Office of Public Works’ use of state funds.
Families continue to live with the daily reality of black mould creeping across walls, damp that never quite leaves the air, and the quiet exhaustion of trying to keep a home safe for children.
In Gaelic Ireland, the land and productive assets were neither the absolute property of a state or private owner. Under the Brehon laws, a tribe or clan held the territory in common.
Sanctioning Aughinish Alumina will not save a single Ukrainian life. Russia's war machine has demonstrated it can function through numerous rounds of sanctions. Other ways to bring the war to an end must be tried.
Activists from the Republican Socialist Youth Movement (RSYM) scaled a crane in the Bogside area of Derry yesterday evening in protest of the imprisonment of comrade Christopher “Crippy” Dillon by the Crown Forces.
In an embarrassing moment for the Stormont regime, the Crown Forces have now been forced to drop disorderly behaviour charges against prominent Saoradh activist Séamus Fitzsimons.
“The law that says wearing a t-shirt is terrorism, or wearing red is terrorism. Have we not got past 1798 when it was a hanging offence in Ireland for wearing the colour green? It's the 21st century?, “ she said in a comment to Aontacht Media.
That is the paradox being considered this Winter. A society may be able to produce enough food, warmth and the ordinary goods of daily life, but individuals may be denied access to them because they don’t have enough purchasing power.
Peadar O’Donnell spent a lifetime insisting that formal independence without social content left existing injustices intact under new management. The empty apartments, the stretched rents and the generation locked out of home ownership proves him right.
A programme for Aontacht would have to be anti-imperialist and would have to challenge the collaborationist activity of much of the opposition. It has made something of a start in opposing the liberalism, reformism and parliamentary approach of much of the left.
An Ennis-based vinyl shop owner is looking for people to buy a digital song download for €3.50 to prevent the closure of the business.