Decolonisation demands more than symbolic appreciation, as it requires an interrogation of the ongoing colonial logics that continue to marginalise Gaeilge and its speaker communities.
If Ireland wants to take advantage of the wave of revolt in Europe, comrades of all fashions and occupations need to join together in a unitary struggle. After all, their grievances share the same root, which is the capitalists’ exploitation of the working class.
The annual Remembrance Sunday spectacle at Belfast City Hall has once again laid bare the deepening political chasm within Irish republicanism. This reality was sharply articulated this week by the RSYM in a blistering social media rebuke of Sinn Féin’s participation.
“Operation: Raise the Colours” was an initiative started by right-wing actors in the United Kingdom to fly the national flag. The knee-jerk reaction of the liberal left, and its media apparatus in both cases was to disavow the nationalistic imagery in full, essentially ceding it to the Right.
Caught between grief and a brutal reality, he faced a question he had never imagined having to answer: how does a person go on living after losing everything he holds dear? Even so, Abd Rabou did not abandon science.
Irish Marxism, and the Irish Left in general has long suffered from a handful of core issues that, when examined, can be at least partially rectified by application of Mao Zedong thought.
We do not exercise sovereignty and are hemmed in through the treaties and structures of the EU. We do not control our own currency, borders, foreign affairs, defence or capital regulation.
What we are not shown is Cherry Orchard as a product of capitalism. The estate was built in the 1980s without a school, abandoned to heroin and unemployment, and left to inherit trauma, addiction, and despair.
The chairperson of Ireland’s International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) ignored a formal complaint about far-right activist Brenda Power, it was revealed in the Dáil this week.
What the abolition of the Triple Lock reveals is that we have entered a new period in which even symbolic gestures towards neutrality can no longer be tolerated. As the world accelerates towards war the ambiguity granted by imperialism to small states such as Ireland has expired.
Terence MacSwiney/Mac Suibhne is known as the revolutionary parliamentarian and Lord Mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike at Brixton Prison in 1920, a martyr whose 74-day fast became a global emblem of resistance to the British Empire and imperialism.
The Irish state media, RTE, reported that the prominent academic Tom Felle had faked his academic credentials. He has no doctorate and yet was employed by University of Galway as a senior lecturer and was lauded as an expert on Fake News.
Critical Analysis
Ireland’s contemporary crises - housing precarity, the unfinished reckoning with institutional abuse, climate injustice, and the systematic neglect of the most vulnerable - demand precisely the analysis and commitment that liberation theology provides.
Critical Analysis
A Trinity society of any kind is not an important staging ground for the working class despite the delusional ideas of grandeur that individuals in Dublin attach to it.
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Yesterday, in the Dáil, busification was condemned for the first time by a sitting Irish TD during a debate intended to debrief the public about the latest European Council meeting.
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International outrage has erupted following the discovery of a blacksite operated by the Azov unit 3121.
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Dublin’s new city regeneration authority, Robert Watt, has drafted a tender to employ a private security force to patrol Dublin’s city center in lieu of adequate Garda coverage.
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On the night of 23 December 1939, a small group of Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers achieved what remains one of the most spectacular - and ultimately self-defeating - coup in the organisation’s history.
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In the minds of the political classes in Westminster and Brussels, however, Ireland remains something lesser: a post-colonial backwater whose people are expected to know their place.
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Four decades have elapsed since the Republican split over abstentionism, and much ink has been spilled over the decision’s rights and wrongs, both by historians and Republican activists.
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The European Union's representation office on Dublin's Molesworth Street was spray-painted with political slogans on Halloween night by the new republican group calling itself the Young Irelanders.
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The Workers’ Party branch of Trinity College Dublin was the site of a chaotic meeting yesterday as a factional battle raged between those aligned with the party-line and a left-deviation oppositional tendency.
Critical Analysis
In October 2005, detectives moved quietly through a hotel in Belfast where the Workers’ Party of Ireland was holding its annual conference. The man they were looking for was its president, Seán Garland.
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Anyone who thinks a fascist government would not go after them because they fit the criteria of an “ideal” citizen must consider India.