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The 1917 October Revolution promised a world based on self-management, and real democracy for the masses, a liberated humankind. However, a tragic series of disagreements, betrayals and lost possibilities have engendered collective trauma.
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One might expect, then, that the announcement of a bill to repeal the nuclear ban would be celebrated on the environmentalist left.
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A meeting organised in Connolly Books on Saturday heard calls to reclaim Ireland’s sovereignty from the trifecta of the European Union, American foreign direct investment and British occupation in the North.
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At a meeting on Wednesday organised by the Save our SNAs campaign, Dublin Lord Mayor Ray McAdam refused to sign a pledge presented by campaigners.
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“How you are right does not matter if you are right in the wrong way,” argue Leandra Tolentino and Owen Buchanan in this piece.
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Aontacht will be a newspaper which reports on events from a socialist perspective, as well as hosting theoretical debate. If Gript are the right-wing Gramscians, we will be the left-wing Gramscians.
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Some repeat the old line that the 1990 industrial relations act is the primary barrier to trade union radicalism. This piece will countenance that and provide a concrete and workable framework that can be acted upon now and does not require the repealing of any legislation.
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
The real issue—both for those of us of a progressive persuasion and otherwise—is that we all see through Sinn Féin’s naked opportunism.
Recent years have seen the emergence of immigration as a major issue in Irish political discourse, coinciding with the rise of a serious right-wing populist movement in the country.
When the Left stops talking to working-class people, the Right step in.
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Cheap food and the DCC's war on drinking and more. Is there truth to the statement "Dublin is Dying?"
Following accusations of sexual harassment and racist discrimination at the Tesco Express, St Finnbarr’s, Douglas Road, Cork, the Independent Workers’ Union has been forced to intervene on behalf of its members employed in the store.
Workers from the Jones Engineering company protested against the company's union busting practices and for better working conditions in Dublin. They held a barbecue, handed out fliers and played music.
At 7am on the 28th April a family of three was evicted from their home on Clovelly Street by the PSNI. They are continuing the fight against the Housing Executive, with the help of CATU. A protest was held today in Belfast.
As is usual with trade union bureaucrats, when confronted with criticism, they reach for the weapon of intimidation, censure and expulsion. The Mandate trade union conference on the 26th of April 2026 saw this play out in full view of all the delegates present. Radical trade union organiser Alex Homits
Just before 9 AM on the 27th of April, a man from the Dublin City Council arrived outside of a home in the Fairview-Marino area with several guards and a court order for an eviction.
During my time in Brittany I participated in many Assemblées Générales (AG). In Rennes alone, arguably the capital for such organizing philosophy, during my time there were around 15 separate AGs ranging from...
It has been said that my work is “politically schizophrenic”. What if, however, this was a guardrail against dogmatism?
Organisers behind the campaign to Save Stephen’s Green have said that “it is not the end” as plans for its demolition have been given the go-ahead by Dublin City Council (DCC).
The Fuel Protests have ended for the most part. There are very few strains of the movement that are still continuing at this stage, some in local areas where a dozen or two small farmers continue to organise in the countryside...
I remember when Irish antifascists were organised, disciplined, and when, if you were in trouble and being threatened by far-right thugs, you could call on them. That generation of antifascists emigrated, got burned out, or settled down since, and were never replaced.
Can we state that the war has been engaged in a moral manner? Is the bombing of schools moral? Is the economic warfare inflicted upon the civilian populace moral? The murder of children is simply anathema.