Aontacht Media

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.

The bourgeois press does not defend democracy or the national interests, it defends property. Its moral outrage is selective. When power drops bombs, it calls it “defence”. When the powerless resist, it calls it “terrorism”. When elites break laws, it calls them “reforms”. When ordinary people rise up, it calls them “riots”.

The first-order consequences of imperial wars, most evidently the mass displacement of peoples, have direct effects on Europe’s material conditions, including migration pressures that people debate about yet too rarely trace back to their structural causes.

This universal mission still has meaning in the 21st century, a century of unparalleled greed. This is a century of capitalist turmoil and naked imperialism, a century of ever increasing inequality. The goal of Vatican II remains.