Grupo Raices and Justice for Colombia will be hosting a film screening on Thursday July 28th in Liberty Hall at 6pm.
We will be showing the documentary “El Baile Rojo” (The Red Dance). The film is about the experience of the Patriotic Union, a left-wing political party which tried to challenge the dominant oligarchy in Colombia [...]

I have been thinking about the present scandals enveloping the Catholic Church in Ireland. People say, ‘How could they do it, men and women of God?’, or ‘How could they believe in the Gospel’, etc. The bafflement is understandable since the Church has always represented itself as a form of institutionalised [...]

The July edition of the Socialist Voice is out now.
See it online here, or download the PDF. In this editions the articles include:

Growing assault on workers’ terms and conditions
First World democracy-In whose interests?
The time is long overdue for the people to have their say
Austerity is working!
Hope and defiance: Picnic in [...]

Hundreds took part in a national demonstration to say no to the EU/IMF deal in Dublin last Saturday. People from many groups and none took part from Sligo to Waterford, Wexford, Cork, everywhere!
This demonstration felt different. As the protestors assembled at the GPO everyone sat down and in the spirit of Spain, Egypt and the [...]

Dick Nichols, Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal’s correspondent in Europe, has a report on the recent ULA conference on the Links IJSR site, which was originally published on the 16th of July.
Ireland’s seven-month-old United Left Alliance is the “new kid on the block” of European anti-capitalist parties. Launched on November 27 [...]

The July edition of An Phoblacht is out now, and includes Eoin Ó’Broin on the continuing failures of social housing and a review of Conor McCabe’s Sins of the Father.

The Roscommon Hospital Action Committee organised a protest a outside the Dail on Wednesday evening, July 06 as a motion that refers to Roscommon Hospital is being debated and voted on in the Chamber.
Hundreds travelled from all over Roscommon to take part, old and young alike workers, farmers, retired pensioners, kids different abilities except [...]

Remember the banking crisis?  You would have thought that was the end of the good times for those financial institutions.  Er, not really.  Its not that the banks themselves had to try hard to change what seemed inevitable.  They are laying low alright, but will play a long game. Here in Ireland, a change of [...]

Editorial: The march has begun
We are beginning to see a concerted workers response to the on-going attacks on our living standards. In the North the Con-Dem cutbacks have provoked strike action by public servants and delivered a clear mes- sage to Dave Cameron and his Tory boys that their agenda of increasing profits by striping [...]

This article is based on a contribution to a seminar held at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities last Friday called The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe. Audio from the event is available here.
Politics is back on the streets of Europe, that much is clear. The PIGS are striking back. Portugal, Ireland [...]