Articles - 2019

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Protests and political rhetoric punctures complacency over racism in Ireland  - 21/12/19

Sectarian intimidation in North Belfast - 17/12/19

Irish by-elections reveal crisis - 13/12/19

The health workers strike, ICTU and Stormont - 10/12/19

Sinn Fein conference ends in a fog of delusion - 28/11/19

Statement: Brexit election: The role of Irish workers - 28/11/19

Britain - Stop Torturing Journalists! Free Julian Assange! - 27/11/19

Colombia's National Strike - 23/11/19

The “Recovery” and the National Transport Authority - 22/11/19

Len McCluskey promotes British nationalism - 16/11/19

The full wrath of the trade union movement? - 14/11/19

Colombia: Historic Memory, Massacres and the Military - 12/11/19

Brexit election - 11/11/19

Brexit Mark II - 26/10/19

The Burning of El Mercurio in Chile and Freedom of the Press - 23/10/19

Colombia: La Gabarra, a massacre foretold, profits guaranteed - 17/10/19

The Great Brexit Disaster - 13/10/19

B udget 2020 - "Heads I win, tails you lose"  - 13/10/19

Reflections on Sam Thompson’s Over the Bridge - October 2019

RISE - Socialist Party split leads to new party - 06/10/19

ICTU's truce - 02/10/19

Wrightbus closure - 01/10/19

Left electoral alliance - 29/09/19

The disappearing strikes - 23/09/19

Stalinism solves Brexit by returning Ireland to colonial status - 21/09/19

Book Review: Peace or Pacification? Northern Ireland after the defeat of the IRA - 17/09/19

Brexit update 3 - Brexit and the left - 11/09/19

Brexit update 2 - Brexit in Ireland - 10/09/19

Brexit update 1 - The Brexit coup - 10/09/19

Colombia: The FARC Returns To War? - 06/09/19

A Nation once again? - 27/08/19

Review: Partition economics today - 25/08/19

The Colombian Army's Strategy in the Truth Commission - 23/08/19

#Me Too, Race, Class and Due Process - 20/08/19

Review: Feile an Phobail 2019 - 19/08/19

Ireland, Brexit & the Left booklet launch (video) - 13/08/19

A trip to the James Connolly Visitor Centre - 12/08/19

Belfast shipyard closure - 08/08/19

Brexit, Ireland and the left (pdf booklet) - August 2019

The demobilisation of the health workers strike - 31/07/19

Loyalist bonfire victory in Belfast - 24/07/19

Ernest Tate memoir - July 2019

Brian Higgins – a personal and political tribute - 16/07/19

OKDE on the results of the elections of the 7th of July - 14/07/19

Colombia: A conflict that was never urban? - 14/07/19

Extradition Bill and Hong Kong/China situation - 10/07/19

Colombia: the political decay of the FARC - 14/07/19

Review: Pragmatism and Palestine - 06/07/19

Colombia: state violence never went away - 24/06/19

Colombia: Coca, cocaine and negotiating with the state - 14/06/19

The crisis in France - Part Two - 01/06/19

Shorts-Bombarbier sale: Belfast's disappearing industrty - 01/06/19

Irish health service: nurses, poachers and gamekeepers! - 25/05/19

Correspondence: Orange, green (and red) - 09/05/19

Correspondence: A sectarian election analysis? - 09/05/19

The crisis in France - Part One - 26/04/19

Northern council elections - 07/05/19

Dublin socialists must fight for a return of democracy to the city! - 04/05/19

Free Assange. Free Manning. Defend WikiLeaks. - 05/05/19

From people power to smiley face: the socialists and the elections - 04/05/19

The Limerick Soviet - 100 Years After - 20/04/19

British and Irish governments push for talks after funeral of Lyra McKee - 02/05/19

Twenty one years on - can the corpse of the Good Friday Agreement be revived? - 26/04/19

INTO congress: selective memory and dubious announcements - 25/04/19

The killing of Lyra Mckee - 20/04/19

Voting and class action - 14/04/19

Opportunism plus electoralism equals reaction - 07/04/19

The nurses' dispute. Prisoners of the PSSA! - 02/04/19

Debate: Reform or revolution? - 31/03/19

Bloody Sunday prosecution - 25/03/19

Back to the streets: Housing movement regroups - 10/03/19

Irish Socialist Party internal debate - 10/03/19

Nurses contract negotiations - 10/03/19

British government expands powers in the north - 08/03/19

British Labour Party: A fight to the death - 04/03/19

Comment and response on “neoliberal” review - 01/03/19

Partnership and pay restraint - 25/02/19

A new Democratic Programme? - 23/02/19

Book review: The state of Northern Ireland and the democratic deficit - 20/02/19

Union leaders betrayal remains invisible for the left - 19/02/19

Government, union bureaucracy put nurses back in their box - 17/02/19

Colombia: police training centre bomb attack - 17/02/19

The bosses case against the nurses - 10/02/19

Fighting for a nurses victory - 09/02/19

Colombia: Machuca: the company is also guilty - 28/01/19

Is abortion legislation another Irish solution? - 28/01/19

The nurses and midwives strike - 22/01/19

Thomas Johnson, Sinn Fein & the Democratic ‘Programme’ - 18/01/19

The Ideology of the Workers’ Party - 06/01/19