The Irish Left Review has been on the go now for more than a month, so it’s worthwhile to take stock of how things have gone so far and where we want to go to next.
First of all the response to the new magazine has been very positive. People in general like the look of […]

There’s a famous story about the technical problems encountered by Soviet director Aleksandr Dovzhenko while shooting his 1930 film Earth, an admiring account of the effect of collectivization on the Russian peasantry. Working with non-professional actors, he was shooting a scene one day that showed the arrival of a tractor on a farm on […]

In launching his successful bid for the leadership of the Labour Party, Deputy Eamon Gilmore laid out his primary objective in unmistakable terms:‘Labour should break free of, and reject, the “half party” limit which others impose on us - and which, sometimes, we inflict on ourselves.’
Just to make sure that everyone knows he was serious […]