Sinn Féin
Bandwagons and Bohs: Sinn Féin’s Naked Opportunism
The real issue—both for those of us of a progressive persuasion and otherwise—is that we all see through Sinn Féin’s naked opportunism.
Critical Analysis
Critical Analysis
A Political Autopsy: The Left’s Self-Sabotage
The left does not lose because its values are unpopular. It loses because it has grown better at talking to itself than anyone else.
Critical Analysis
Letter to the Irish Media on Iran
This letter addresses the lack of genuine and fair coverage of the present disastrous, imposed war on Iran by the USA and Israel. What is shocking and sad to observe is the total lack of understanding and respect regarding the background to the Iranian position in this war.
Critical Analysis
Notes on Communist Organisation as a Bulwark Against the Far-Right
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The future of Ireland is to be determined by the revolutionary class struggle to come. The objective conditions for this revolutionary class struggle are to be found in the permanent crisis of capitalism.
Critical Analysis
Seamus Costello: Democracy and the Mass Movement speech, February 1969
Seamus Costello is for good reason seen as one of the greatest republicans of his era.
Critical Analysis
Lismore and the Question of the Land
There is widespread and justified outrage at the situation now unfolding in Lismore, County Waterford.
Critical Analysis
Sinn Féin will not save us
I will attempt to critique the positions held in the article "Where have all the republicans gone?", from a revolutionary republican perspective.
Critical Analysis
Where have all the Republicans gone?
Republicanism, even when used as a mere rhetorical device to whip up furore, can bring about the necessary enthusiasm.
Critical Analysis
The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future.
So the story goes that we emerged proud brave modern Europeans out of nothing but comely maidens dancing at the crossroads, god fearing eat the dinner in the middle of the day conservatives, sheer grit, determination & hard work.
Critical Analysis
For a left populist, Socialist-Republican position on immigration
Recent years have seen the emergence of immigration as a major issue in Irish political discourse, coinciding with the rise of a serious right-wing populist movement in the country.
Critical Analysis
Suggestions on Organising from a Rural Activist Perspective
We must realise the class first perspective of Aontacht’s theory has been largely speculative and uninvolved with the actual practice within the Marxist movement in Ireland.
Critical Analysis
Dirty Old Town - The Myth of Dublin
Despite what many may assume, the song Dirty Old Town was not about Dublin but instead Manchester, though if it were to be written today, would there be a place more fitting?