Critical Analysis
A Brief History of the Irish Student Anti-Austerity Movement Since The 2010s
Theory is necessary to guide us. Without theory pertaining to the material context, we are sailors of a ship neither its origin nor destination known.
Student Politics
Opinion
The Nature of Irish Student Politics.
After hiring strippers to preform for them in their SU bar, Maynooth Student’s Union have said that they cannot comment on the matter because they are in the middle of an SU election. Nonsense hackery really. We’re happy to re-blog a post from Karl Gill’s blog Red
Opinion
Women’s Officer Kicked Out for Voting Pro-Choice: USI Congress, QUB, & False Mandates
– Aisling Gallagher writes about her recent experience of having her delegate status revoked at USI Congress because she voted for two pro-choice motions. Aisling is Women’s Officer for NUS-USI and a student at Queen’s University Belfast. This post originally appeared on Aisling’s personal blog here. Last week
Opinion
The long march through USI: UCD Disaffiliation and beyond
– Aidan Rowe discusses UCD’s Disaffiliation from the Union of Students of Ireland, its implications for the student movement, and whether there actually is a student movement in Ireland . It is something of a paradox that leftists – those progressives who fight for a radical restructuring of society – often end up
Opinion
Ignoring the Sins of the Past
Here we go. The difficult second blog post. Mightn’t be as groundbreaking or as good as the earlier stuff but sure we’ll get through it. While the Daily Edge often gets a bit of ridicule from the Journal.ie comment warriors for not having serious stories, I always