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.
News
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.
News
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
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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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.
Aontacht Media spoke to Finn O’Neil, a student who is struggling with affording university. He was also critical of the reformist direction of ÁMLE.
As Saoradh party activists were preparing to undertake their commemoration of the 1981 Hunger Strikers in Armagh, they were met with a PSNI response described as being “aggressive” and “disproportionate”.
Stop The Game activists, individual protestors, and fans like Seán, will persist to highlight and protest the hypocrisy of football and sporting federations in their continued whitewashing of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestine.
The official historiography will do its best to omit the reactions of the crowd, the voices of the subaltern, the mood of the people. Who will listen to them, and who will insist on presenting what the reformist politicians are saying as the irrevocable truth of society?