Saoirse Éireann is a socialist republican community activist in county Cavan in this article she critiques the dominant attitudes on the left towards mass organisations from a rural organising perspective and advocates for line struggle against liberal ideas.
As the country prepares to green fountains and dust off leprechaun hats for the national day, a coalition of grassroots activists is planning a very different kind of St. Patrick’s Week demonstration. The Munster section of Keep Left, alongside The Roots Party, has announced a two-day protest dubbed “No Shamrocks” to be held on Friday, March 6th 4-6pm, and Saturday, March 7th 2-4pm, on Kildare Street, Dublin outside the Daíl.
Environmental activists gathered outside the Four Courts in Dublin this week to protest the proposed expansion of the Aughinish Alumina refinery in County Limerick. Demonstrators were there to support a judicial review brought by Environmental Trust Ireland, which challenges the expansion on environmental grounds.
Dublin is rotting to its core right in front of our eyes, but the myths and narratives being spun would have you think otherwise. On the one hand, you have the uniparty line of a modern and prosperous European city, full of commerce, technological advancement and hope for the future (a brief look at the cracks in the pavement show otherwise). On the other hand, you have an increasingly loud minority screaming about how the quaint village of Dublin is being invaded by those of a darker complexion, losing its entire identity at the hands of those more able to get a tan than us pasty folk. This again is a myth, indeed from the same source, though one that is gaining traction in a land that has lost its identity.
The purpose of this text is to assess the shortcomings, failures and issues that surrounded the split of the communist movement in Ireland. The analysis is based on discussions with former and current members of the three different communist organizations in Ireland, but presented in a non-exhaustive and personalised way i.e through the prism of my personal experience, therefore parts of it are without a doubt specific to my own experience.
An analysis of our loss of sovereignty & dignity as well as a call to join the author at a protest against it.
In this article, activist Stephen Delaney explains why he organised a protest in Kilkenny against the privatization of social housing on Saturday, its connection to the migration crisis and the Approved Housing Bodies complex. The protest was attended by Nationalists, Republicans and Socialists as well as a handful of concerned locals. He calls for a working class movement which unites people and is opposed to both the NGO activist class on the Left and the MAGA-centric internationalism on the Right.
It is true that Iranians are not free people, neither by prevailing liberal standards of human rights nor by libertarian socialist standards of autonomy and equality. But invasions have seldom changed this.
In this piece, Omar Afzal briefly examines the South Asian middle class in Ireland, criticising their attachment to the FDI regime and maintenance of the pervasive ‘culture of silence’ that acts as a barrier to true integration. The author suggests public disruption of this ‘culture of silence’, critical support to the South Asian Left, and migrant unionisation as first steps.
An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion.
