Critical Analysis
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.
News
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
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
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.
Critical Analysis
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
An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion.