Lately there has been some obscurity around what ODS actually stands for and what it’s internal principles or tenets are as a movement. This obscurity is to blame, in part, by aggressive attempts at ‘pushing the party line’ or usage of entryist tactics at General Assemblies by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). These attempts have [...]

David Lynch spent Sunday on the streets around a Tahrir Square in revolt. He will be writing about the events in Cairo in the Sunday Business Post on Sunday and we’ll be putting his posts from Arab Spring in My Step up here as he posts them during the week.
Tahrir this morning: Protestors under tear [...]

#occupyuniversity working group statement on events at the 16/11/11 USI demonstration:
The #occupyuniversity working group at #occupydamestreet salutes those who took to the streets of Dublin today to protest government attacks on third level education, carried out behalf of financial institutions and wealthy elites.
However we must strongly reject the actions of Union of Students in Ireland [...]

On 8 October 2011 a group of people pitched tents on the plaza outside the Central Bank in Dame Street and began a protest against Irish and international finance. Inspired in part by events in New York, as well as the M15 movement in Spain, the Occupy Dame Street protest has become not only a [...]

The November edition of the Socialist Voice is out now
Areas cover in this issue are:-

Should Ireland remain in the euro?
Occupy Dame Street: The left must become involved
Occupy Dame Street:A positive development but lacking a class understanding
Did Lenin ask for a stimulus package?
The unemployment experience.
Job losses batter Co. Waterford
Crisis in social housing worsen.
The impact of the [...]

Book Review: ‘On the State of Egypt- The Issues that Caused the Revolution‘, Alaa Al Aswany (AUB Press 2011)

David Lynch is currently based in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. He is blogging at Arab Spring in My Step.
Massive social phenomena are not easily predicted.
The CIA for instance, was pumped full of [...]

Christy Moore, a veteran supporter of activism and protest, will be visiting the ongoing occupation of the Central Bank Plaza on Monday the 14th November at approximately 2pm.
This weeks talks at Occupy University. Keep an eye on the site for further updates.
Mon 14 Nov: 4:00pm:  Siobhan O’Donoghue on taxing wealth: why the wealthy can [...]

At an extended meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland, on Saturday 12th November, communists from around the country gathered to discuss the deepening crisis of the system and its impact on the people, north and south.
The meeting reaffirmed the party’s view that the present crisis is part of the [...]

Dublin Council of Trade Unions
- Pre Budget Demonstration -
Trades Councils, Trade Unions
Community and Campaign Organisations
March Against Austerity
Stop the policy of austerity - reverse the cuts!
Tax the wealthy not the needy!
For a public investment programme in jobs!
March & Rally 12 p.m.
Saturday 26th November 2011
Garden of Remembrance,
Parnell Square, Dublin
Speakers: Eugene McGlone (President ICTU & Unite)
Aviva shop [...]

Book Review: Britain’s Empire, Richard Gott (Verso 2011)

Hegel’s metaphor about  the awareness that comes only after the event  – ‘The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk’ - might encourage the thought that finally we are able to look back at the British empire and draw some [...]