Most of Europe is involved in a proxy war against Russia, costing billions of Euros and untold lives; untold because the personnel involved were not supposed to be in Ukraine in the first place. Who voted for the war?This question sums up bourgeois democracy.This has not prevented many on the left enthusiastically supporting it. (read more)
Enoch Burke is back in the
headlines. Once more he turned up to his
place of work where he is engaged in a dispute with his employers. He had been ordered on repeated occasions by
the courts not to approach his place of employment and has been jailed on a
number of occasions for refusing to obey the courts instructions. (read more)
The agrarian question has always occupied a central key place in the Colombian economy and has supposedly been a central axis of state policies. A change in direction with the new Petro government was hoped for, new ideas, new policies to break with the past where the government only sought to favour landlords, multinational cash crop exporters and the regional and national elites. (read more)
The armed forces of Israel continue with their genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, whilst the governments of the world wash their hand of the affair. They announce measures they never take, partially take, or take when it no longer matters. Meanwhile liberals talk as if this were something strange in the world. The Palestinian people know this is not the case, the genocide against them began with the Nakba in 1948 and never ended. (read more)
If one read and believed the international press, one would conclude that the only vessel to sink in recent times in the Mediterranean was the super yacht, Bayesian, belonging to the magnate Mike Lynch. The sinking of the yacht was not only international front-page news, but dominated the headlines in the major media outlines since going down on the 19th of August. (read more)
Ireland, north and south, and England have seen the
emergence of a substantial anti-migrant right that has moved onto the streets and
used substantial violence and intimidation. These movements have now fallen
back, but they have not gone away.
So
how do we assess the first skirmishes? (read more)
The 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in April 2023 was met with jubilation and celebration in Belfast. Past and present taoisigh (Irish government leaders), British prime ministers, US presidents and a raft of academics were brought together by the local universities and media in an extended celebration.Yet all is not well. If the decay of the agreement is of concern, the universal failure of academia, of the press, the trade unions and political parties to acknowledge such decay is astounding. John McAnulty provides that missing critique and suggests how Ireland will move beyond this historic inflection to fulfill the revolutionary implications of its initial struggle for freedom.
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10 April 2023
25 Years On: in the debris of the Good Friday Agreement
The 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is being
marked by assemblies of the great and the good. Joe Biden rushes through the
North, avoiding attention to the barren political landscape. On RTE television
the ghost of Bertie Ahern dominates, while the high point will be the upcoming visit
of Bill and Hilary Clinton and Tony Blair to a celebration at Queens
University.
No-one will remark on the unsavoury character of
these saints of peace. Even less will anyone notice that the fine mansion that
they built is now in ruins. (read more)
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the truth - 20/10/21
People before Profit student
society calls for ‘no-platforming’ of feminists and LGB rights activists -
25/03/21
Puberty Blockers: An
unregulated live experiment on children - 17/04/21
Vulnerable children being seen
at Gender Clinics - 06/03/21
On the Reactionary Roots of
Queer Theory - 28/02/21
A new front in human
liberation, or a medical scandal in the making? - 09/01/21
Amnesty International Ireland opposes the right to free speech -
06/11/20
Gender Identity Ideology, the Trans Rights
Movement, and
homophobia - 27/09/20
Socialism, Feminism and transgender politics -
07/09/20
All COVERAGE
Socialist Democracy Statement on Coronavirus pandemic - 28/03/20
The promise and reality of vaccination -28/03/21
Herd immunity - myth and reality - 30/11/20
Coronavirus pandemic - a deepening health and economic crisis - 28/07/20
Protest, class conflict and Covid 19 - 06/05/20
Unionism’s silent shift on the pandemic
- 16/05/20
Ideology and Science - 05/05/20
Big Pharma in Ireland - 24/04/20
Europe and the pandemic - 09/04/20
All COVERAGE
Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!
Tributes from
International
Viewpoint
Irish
Labour History Society
Socialist
Voice
Sráid
Marx
Emancipation,
Liberation & Self-determination
Workers
Liberty
Irish
Republican Marxist History Project
The
Pensive Quill
Irish
Left Archive
Obituray from the Irish Independent
A selection of writings by Rayner can be found online at:
Socialist Democracy
Arguments for a Workers' Republic
The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism
Red Mole Rising
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