Critical Analysis
Bend That Stick! Historicizing Lenin's What Is To Be Done?
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.
Laszlo Molnarfi
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Outrage As ASTI Bureaucrats Shamefully Encourage Members to Accept Bad Senior Cycle Deal
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
Critical Analysis
The Traumatic Aftershock of Communist Defeat in the 20th Century
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.
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Public Meeting Calls for Break with EU, America and the British for a Sovereign Ireland
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.
Critical Analysis
What Should Aontacht Be?
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.
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Tesco Suspends Worried Workers
Following accusations of sexual harassment and racist discrimination at the Tesco Express, St Finnbarr’s, Douglas Road, Cork, the Independent Workers’ Union has been forced to intervene on behalf of its members employed in the store.
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Workers Rally Against the Union-Busting Tactics of Jones Engineering
Workers from the Jones Engineering company protested against the company's union busting practices and for better working conditions in Dublin. They held a barbecue, handed out fliers and played music.
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Alex Homits, Radical Trade Union Organiser, Expelled from Mandate Over Criticism of Union Bureaucrats
As is usual with trade union bureaucrats, when confronted with criticism, they reach for the weapon of intimidation, censure and expulsion. The Mandate trade union conference on the 26th of April 2026 saw this play out in full view of all the delegates present. Radical trade union organiser Alex Homits
Critical Analysis
Je ne suis pas Marxiste
It has been said that my work is “politically schizophrenic”. What if, however, this was a guardrail against dogmatism?
Critical Analysis
The Time Between Lightning and Thunder
The Fuel Protests have ended for the most part. There are very few strains of the movement that are still continuing at this stage, some in local areas where a dozen or two small farmers continue to organise in the countryside...
Critical Analysis
A Taxonomy of Contemporary Irish Trotskyist Organizations
An ever growing critical mass of young students is drawing the correct conclusion that Trotskyism is a fifth column and an ideological disease that operates in the interests of capitalism and imperialism.
A Marxist Analysis of Ireland's Fuel Prices Protest
A comprehensive Marxist analysis of the Irish movement against fuel prices, uncovering its class basis, political ideology, organizational methodology and world-economic origins, travelling from the base to the superstructure, the determined and contingent elements which make up its totality.