Critical Analysis
While Stormont Hid, The Community Stood
When the hit list went round, naming the homes of families in this city, nobody from Stormont came to stand outside those doors. I know, because I was there, and I’d have seen them.
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Critical Analysis
Lismore: How The British Empire Never Left Ireland
The British Empire never left Ireland. Sixteen sheep farmers are in conflict with the Lismore Estate, owned by the Duke of Devonshire, over proposed rent increases of up to 900 percent over the coming years.
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The 2026 Tressell Festival: Is the Left At War With The Working Class?
A reflection on the 2026 Tressel Festival reveals that through its focus on social issues and its resiling away from its traditional economic raison d'etre, the Left is alienating the working class.
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How Bonfire Season Became Pogrom Season
Loyalist bonfire season used to be about harassing and attacking our northern brethren, burning tricoulours and papal effigies. Now, it is an annual carnival of orchestrated racist violence. Interestingly, it has in its own twisted way embraced an inverse multiculturalism.
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We’ve Been Here Before: People Before Profit and Performative Antifascism
The question worth asking about People Before Profit is not whether they oppose fascism. They do, loudly and repeatedly. The question is whether their model does anything to contest the conditions that produce fascist violence - and on that measure, they are failing.
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My Life As A Covalen Worker
From First World countries like America and Ireland to Kenya, India and Philippines thousands of people are roped into roles where they have to review and label everything from executions, bestiality, child pornography, while being exploited, treated as expendable and un-supported.
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The West Is Everything They Told You China Was
Surveillance, censorship, journalists sanctioned into destitution, innocent people brutalised by police. This is everyday life in the liberal, democratic west.
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Gombeens Among Migrants
As Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael leave working class migrants for dead, Ireland's elite migrants face no backlash as they cling onto the coattails of Martin and Harris.
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Lough Neagh and the Treason of Bad Stewardship
Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in Ireland. Yet this vast area has been left between British imperialist rule, its incompetent Stormont regime and the absurd private title of an English aristocratic estate.
Critical Analysis
The Blue Wall of Silence Around Terence Wheelock
Twenty-one years ago, Terence Wheelock was dragged away into Store Street Garda Station and did not walk back out. This crime committed by those who are tasked with being the guardians of the peace, who murdered this young man, covered it up and built a blue wall of silence.
Critical Analysis
A Stern Critique of Tommy Hickey
A disgraceful article was published last month by Tommy Hickey arguing that the militant left is as bad as the militant right.
Critical Analysis
The Left Needs A Migration Policy Based on Class Solidarity
If the left has a position on immigration at all, it is that the state bureaucracy should maintain a relaxed policy and that working-class communities have no right to dictate who becomes their neighbour, their colleague, or their fellow citizen. Marx's basic insight has been stood on its head.