Critical Analysis
The Slievenamon Fires: Burning Through Our Own Ignorance
The Slievenamon fires are a serious education in what happens when you refuse to understand your own environment and refuse to decolonise.
April Sheehan Corkery
Critical Analysis
Left Appeasing NATO’s Warmongering, Fronta Poblachtach Working With Russians In Aughinish Scandal
The liberal left demands closure of Aughinish Alumina in the name of Ukraine and the environment, while Fronta Poblachtach has issued Russian apologia, and its members have actively cultivated relationships with representatives of the Russian state.
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‘Enough Is Enough’: CATU Puts Wicklow County Council On Notice Over Three Homeless Families
“These aren’t just statistics,” CATU said, “they’re Laura, Rachel, Zeineb, and their children. They need a home now.”
Critical Analysis
“Immigrants Are The Real Danger," Says The Most Violent Community In The European Capital of Femicide
The statistics are not just bad; they are a continental scandal. Northern Ireland’s femicide rate is the second highest in the whole continent of Europe.
Critical Analysis
How Bonfire Season Became Pogrom Season
Loyalist bonfire season used to be about harassing and attacking our northern brethren, burning tricoulours and papal effigies. Now, it is an annual carnival of orchestrated racist violence. Interestingly, it has in its own twisted way embraced an inverse multiculturalism.
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Kinisla: A Rebrand Will Not Fix What Is Wrong With Kerry
This could have been a beautiful story of farmers and workers taking back the power from a PLC, but instead due to the issuing of transferable shares, this is a disaster in the making.
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Brown Envelopes, Bags of Brown, Brownshirts, and Bertie: A Unified Timeline of How Dublin Became Patient Zero for Reaction
Bertie swapped brown envelopes while in power for political capital on hate against brown and black people. Irony: he and FF built the crises they blame on immigrants. The Irish right blaze a path for FF rule at the expense of everyone darker than milky tea.
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Socialist Republicans Take Over Vacant Property And Call For Liberties Community To Participate
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.
Critical Analysis
4 Protests and a Meeting
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.
Critical Analysis
The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future.
So the story goes that we emerged proud brave modern Europeans out of nothing but comely maidens dancing at the crossroads, god fearing eat the dinner in the middle of the day conservatives, sheer grit, determination & hard work.
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Why We Need to Finish Our Fight for Independence - No Shamrocks for Shysters protest 6th & 7th of March.
We celebrate the men & women of 1916, the heroes of the War of Independence, & we remember the Civil War with solemn respect. We tell ourselves that their sacrifice gave us this Republic. But did it?
Critical Analysis
They Are Killing the Dogs, They Are Killing the Cats: The Calculating Cruelty of Colonial Deflection
An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion.