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).
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
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 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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
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.
Critical Analysis
In Defence of Oil Price Caps
This evening I was browsing Instagram when I saw a new article comparing Paul Murphy to Lizz Truss. Yusuf Murray criticised Paul’s call for a price cap on petrol and diesel. He accused the policy of being a blank cheque to Shell, BP and ExxonMobil.