Critical Analysis
Is this a nightmare or have PBP-S finally gone full Liz Truss?
A price cap on oil is a blank cheque, signed by me and you, to the likes of Shell, BP and ExxonMobil.
Critical Analysis
Critical Analysis
Internationalism’s Failings - Solidarity Must Start At Home
Internationalism, the holy gospel of the left, has been failing us here in Ireland. People have become so obsessed with the international issues that we are forgetting our own struggles. This reeks of the activism of the comfortable classes.
Critical Analysis
The Indo's Takes Have Always Been Shite. Now Their Maths Is Too.
The Indo's polling just doesn't add up: at this margin of error, public support for the protests could be as low as 47.55%.
Critical Analysis
The Fascist Tiger and the Fragile Left
A post-Water Charges retreat to the cosy consensus of left liberalism, data-driven electoralism, and the reign of the slick SPAD has left us unable to run a bath.
Critical Analysis
Gavin Reilly Is Wrong About Carbon Taxes
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
Critical Analysis
Strike While The Iron Is Hot
How we feel about the fuel protests doesn’t matter as much as the opportunity they have given us! If everyone, at this historical moment, rises up in unison and puts them under pressure, we all stand a better chance of winning our demands.
Critical Analysis
United States Regime Turns Its Back on Catholics
Since 2025, ICE has started perpetrating raids on Catholic Churches with 33% of Catholics being Latino this is likely to become increasingly more common.
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
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.
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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.