I’m working on an article for The Citizen at the moment, on the general theme of ‘Is Fianna Fáil Dead?’
It’s more of a reflective piece on the development of the party since its inception 85 years ago this week, and on the contradictions between its position as a populist party with a strong working-class base, [...]

Visit of King George V - James Connolly (1910)
Fellow-Workers,
As you are aware from reading the daily and weekly newspapers, we are about to be blessed with a visit from King George V.
Knowing from previous experience of Royal Visits, as well as from the Coronation orgies of the past few weeks, that the occasion will [...]

Hugh Green of Punishment of Sloth provides some very helpful detail on the ¡Democracia Real YA! campaign in Spain, which saw a massive 50 city-wide demonstration last Sunday (May 15th).
He also compares the nature of the various Irish campaigns with the emphasis of ¡Democracia Real YA!
“The post-crisis ‘civil society’ initiatives -whilst differing in scope and [...]

The new issue of LookLeft is in shops now - including all Easons outlets in the North of Ireland and Easons in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. Full list here
Articles include interviews with the newly-elected ULA TD Joan Collins, band The Vagabonds and Comedian & activist Mark Thomas.
‘White Noise, bleak hope’, Irish media crisis: Gavan [...]

The May edition of the Socialist Voice is out now. In this issue:

Build the people’s resistance! [EMC]
The case for repudiation becomes urgent
Saving the euro! [CMK]
Trade union movement harmed by scandal
May Day in Dublin [EMC]
Shadow over the future of the ESB [JN]
Royals old and new: Their empires and their Irish lackeys [SE]
Victory for Shannon activist [MNM]
Making [...]

AN PHOBLACHT, MAY 2011 - INSIDE THIS ISSUE
SINN FÉIN RISING - ELECTIONS ROUND-UP
CHE GUEVARA’S LIEUTENANT: Interview with Victor Dreke, veteran of the Bay of Pigs and Congo
Donegal Councillor EDDIE FULLERTON: WHO WAS BEHIND HIS MURDER?
MARK THOMAS: Walking Israel’s Wall
Scotland: Republicans targeted by parcel bomb
Three new Sinn Féin senators elected
30 years on, Bobby Sands continues to [...]

FORMER members of the SAS, the Legion of Mary and the Shannon Five will be among the walkers on Monday in a ‘Radical Rosary Mystery Tour’ against the queen’s visit to Ireland.
The walking tour of Dublin, on the eve of the visit, will be led by an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the [...]

If one were to identify successful revolutionaries in crisis-ridden Europe, the European Commission would be a strong candidate. And it’s not social justice and democracy they have at heart, writes Kenneth Haar of Corporate Europe Observatory. This article was originally commissioned for May Day International.
“What is going on is a silent revolution - a silent [...]

In the first part of this piece, we looked at how political and economic neo-liberalism became embedded in the UN’s approach to peace-building. In this part we will examine some of the primary characteristics of this ‘neo-imperial’ form of Peace-building.

Formal Sovereignty
As the law professor Anthony Anghie argues,
Many imperial projects sought to create what might [...]

This is a statement published after the Athens Conference on Debt and Austerity: From the Global South to Europe, which was held on May 6-7-8, 2011.
We, representatives of movements and activists from across the world, met in Athens to discuss the lessons of previous international economic crises, to offer our solidarity to the European people [...]