Critical Analysis
Big business and shady politicians want to divide us. If they can split us into tiny groups based on our race, where we come from, the languages we speak, and who we love, it becomes easier for them to distract us from the big questions.
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Socialist Republicans from the Revolutionary Housing League have taken a locked up, vacant building in the Liberties from the hands of capitalist speculators and are now turning it, via the kind of direct action they have become known for, into a community center.
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Activists in Dublin from the Socialist Republican party Lasair Dhearg have removed the Drury street sign, named after 16th century British colonialist William Drury, and renamed the street after Bobby Sands.
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Aontacht Media can reveal that the private security firm contracted by Arnotts has ties to Israel and Big Tech companies, sparking deep alarm among community groups, following the death of Congolese man Yves Sakila, who died after being forcefully restrained by the firm's guards.
Critical Analysis
This work will be the republication of a number of articles and excerpts thereof; with additional commentary suited to the moment attached, of pieces from the Ulster-focused Red Hand magazine.
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The Congolese Community in Ireland (CCI) has called a vigil on Dublin’s Henry Street from 12-2pm, Tuesday 19 May, in response to the alleged killing of Yves Sakila on Friday 15 May.
Critical Analysis
Organising means more than temporary protest or support for individual politicians. It means building lasting structures rooted in the working class: unions, tenant groups, community organisations, education circles, and a disciplined vanguard party.
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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The point of this article is to point to a series of 'teachable moments' that seem to have not been learned. The focus of this article will be the tactic of countering 'Nativists' or, if you want to show off, the 'Nazis' or 'Fascists' on our streets.
An explainer of Lenin’s What is to be Done? (1902), its historical context and thoughts on the latent confluence between the anarchist and Leninist concept of the vanguard.
Socialist republicans have slammed Lurgan IPSC for distancing a Palestine solidarity march from political republicanism following Loyalist threats.
The fat cats in the trade union leadership are at it again, and members are outraged. The ASTI second level teachers' union are recommending to their members that they accept the senior cycle reform deal struck with the government. This deal, it is argued, would massively increase workload for
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.
One might expect, then, that the announcement of a bill to repeal the nuclear ban would be celebrated on the environmentalist left.
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.
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.
“How you are right does not matter if you are right in the wrong way,” argue Leandra Tolentino and Owen Buchanan in this piece.
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.
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.
Cheap food and the DCC's war on drinking and more. Is there truth to the statement "Dublin is Dying?"