Endorsing Catherine Connolly is in the Student Interest
A spectre is haunting the student movement - the spectre of apoliticism.
A spectre is haunting the student movement - the spectre of apoliticism.
The capitalist mode of production, defined by the private ownership of the means of production and the anarchy of the market, relies on the exploitation of the working-class.
Critical Analysis
Molnárfi’s call to overcome the state of siege that permeates the psychological landscape of Irish communism is a welcome one.
There should be a conference organized for socialist revolutionaries to unite with consensus decision-making against reformism which dominates the Left across the 32 counties.
All that glitters is not gold. To avoid being swindled, a jeweller places the ingot under a microscope, on a scale and feels it, so as to identify whether it is real gold, or merely cheap copper coated with gold.
Critical Analysis
While I agree that the counterdemo was highly flawed and performative, I believe that Molnárfi goes in the wrong direction with his criticism.
The Irish political culture is, in general, one of complacency; from school to university to the workplace we are taught to toe the line and refrain from trouble-making.
Anarchists and libertarian Marxists have significantly more in common than they have apart.
A group of more than 50 people have registered to take part in a five-day hunger strike demanding justice for Gaza, organizers say.
Tensions that have been lying dormant within the revolutionary socialist left in Ireland are being activated by the worsening domestic and international situation of right-wing dominance.
This year, the so-called Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Trotskyist group, decided to use its great wealth of political capital to push for three of its members to run for President of their local students’ unions.
Critical Analysis
The counter-demonstration held by United Against Racism (UAR) against the large anti-immigration march on the 26th of April 2025 is rooted in a liberal worldview that misleads activists and workers alike.