This is the conclusion of Maybe It’s Because, Vincent’s autobiography which has yet to find a publisher. Vincent wanted to make it available online so people could read it, share and let him know what they think. The links to each section are available on facebook or you can browse his blog, as each section has [...]

The September edition of the Socialist Voice is out now.
This edition includes an article by Conor McCabe on the myth of a middle class majority in Ireland. The article is replete with fascinating data, including the fact that
“With regard to wage distribution, the top 1 per cent of PAYE earners had a combined wage that [...]

Launch of the Communist Party of Ireland’s new publication, The Challenge for Trade Unionism, followed by a seminar on “The future challenges for the trade union movement“.
The first contributors to the debate are Éamon Devoy, general secretary of the TEEU, Colin Whitston, senior lecturer in industrial relations, NCI, and Jimmy Nolan, Industrial Officer with the TEEU and [...]

The recently formed Peter Daly Society Wexford will unveil a memorial stone to the Socialist Republican Peter Daly in Monageer (Enniscorthy) Co. Wexford on Saturday the 3rd of September at 6.00 pm.
Peter Daly fought and died with the Irish contingent of the International Brigade in the war against fascism in Spain in September 1937. [...]

Yesterday in the Irish Times Fintan O’Toole returned to the subject of his column from the previous week, which is now known as Ireland’s Great Oil and Gas Giveaway (or GOGG for short) and deals very effectively with the Minister for the Environment Pat Rabbitte’s response to it, also published last week in the pages [...]

Clip of an interview with veteran Irish socialist, Joe Deasy, which took place in Mr. Deasy’s home in Crumlin in November 2009.
The interviewer is Mick O’Reilly.
Joe Deasy talks about his earliest political memories, his move towards socialism in the 1940s, and his encounters with ‘Big’ Jim Larkin on the council of Dublin Corporation.
For [...]

Book Review: Sins of The Father by Conor McCabe, The History Press, Dublin. (ISBN 13: 9781845886936 ISBN 10: 1845886933)
Like a ship in distress or an army in retreat, Ireland is awash with rumours about what caused our downfall. Among certain liberal citizens the idea has taken hold that we’ve all been doomed by a kind [...]

Conor McCabe has a new article on Journal.ie. It’s broadly based on Sins of the Father, but provides a very good summary of how power works in Ireland, how the economy was kept as an agricultural exporter to Britian for so long only to be replaced as an importer of FDI where the only benefit [...]

Tuesday 19 July, 5:30 p.m.
Book launch
The Making of an Irish Communist Leader
Launch of The Making of an Irish Communist Leader: Michael O’Riordan, 1938-1947
by Michael Quinn
Connolly Books (43 East Essex Street)
Baile Átha Cliath
Máirt 19 Iúil, 5:30 i.n.
Seoladh leabhair
The Making of an Irish Communist Leader
Seoladh The Making of an Irish Communist Leader: Michael O’Riordan, [...]

Worldbystorm of Cedarlounge has just put up a post on The Just Society. I want to focus on a particular aspect of that document, one which ties in with the present banking crisis.
On pages 10 to 12 of the document, the authors concern themselves with Irish banking and monetary policy.
They noted that ‘neither the [...]