Why the Left Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power
One might expect, then, that the announcement of a bill to repeal the nuclear ban would be celebrated on the environmentalist left.
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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.
Fine Gael TD Candidate and Lord Mayor Ray McAdam Refuses to Sign SNA Pledge
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.
In Defense of Political Maturity
“How you are right does not matter if you are right in the wrong way,” argue Leandra Tolentino and Owen Buchanan in this piece.
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.
May Day Reflections, the 1990 Act Deflection and ICTU
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.
Dublin Musings: Drury and Pearse
Cheap food and the DCC's war on drinking and more. Is there truth to the statement "Dublin is Dying?"
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.
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.
Family Continues Fight for Accommodation against Belfast Housing Executive
At 7am on the 28th April a family of three was evicted from their home on Clovelly Street by the PSNI. They are continuing the fight against the Housing Executive, with the help of CATU. A protest was held today in Belfast.
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
Despite Promise to Wait For Appeal, Gardaí Evict Tenant
Just before 9 AM on the 27th of April, a man from the Dublin City Council arrived outside of a home in the Fairview-Marino area with several guards and a court order for an eviction.
Critical Analysis
A Bottle of Lightning
During my time in Brittany I participated in many Assemblées Générales (AG). In Rennes alone, arguably the capital for such organizing philosophy, during my time there were around 15 separate AGs ranging from...
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Je ne suis pas Marxiste
It has been said that my work is “politically schizophrenic”. What if, however, this was a guardrail against dogmatism?
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Green-light for Stephen’s Green demolition “not the end” say campaigners
Organisers behind the campaign to Save Stephen’s Green have said that “it is not the end” as plans for its demolition have been given the go-ahead by Dublin City Council (DCC).
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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...
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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.
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The Only Just War
Can we state that the war has been engaged in a moral manner? Is the bombing of schools moral? Is the economic warfare inflicted upon the civilian populace moral? The murder of children is simply anathema.
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On The Red-Brown Opportunists
Many on the left... have muddied the path forward and the movement as a whole. They make false assumptions about our proletariat, make right-wing caricatures of them, and in that delusion head endlessly rightward to satisfy this non-entity.
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Fintan O’Toole Reads the Wrong Room on Fuel Protests
Fintan O’Toole as usual waits for the dust to settle before giving his safe take for the Irish Times audience, acknowledging some factors but completely missing why these protests saw popularity across Ireland and why some people have shifted to a more “anti-state” ideology.
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Your Party’s Over
The test of a new political party is not how loudly it launches, but whether it can hold serious people together once the excitement fades. By that measure, Your Party has already failed.
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Letter: Where is my Students' Union?
I am standing outside the Dáil as I write this and not only are the Trinity Students' Union not present but have instead spent the day running ad-campaigns with local food chains on their Instagram story, their main form of communication to the student body.
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The Revolutionary Legacy of Karl Kautsky
Many on the left know of Karl Kautsky, but few understand him. He is denounced as a reformist and his politics as anathema, but the reality of the fact is that he is one architect of the European revolution of 1917.
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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.