Okay, let’s keep in mind my caution about the current polls… but the most recent one this weekend from the Sunday Business Post was - despite showing no variation from the previous one, bar a 1% increase for Sinn Féin and a 1% decrease for the Independents, pretty telling in its own way.
Firstly the fact [...]

It’s interesting reading the article by Harry McGee in the Irish Times about Sinn Féin and its current troubles. That topic, though, is for another day, albeit I find it hard to disagree with him when he argues that
“There are some who believe Sinn Féin is in terminal decline, like other republican parties that preceded [...]

When the world financial system looked as if it might collapse in the autumn of 2008, many people assumed that there would have to be drastic changes in the wake of the crisis. Nothing would ever be the same again: the neoliberal philosophy which had spawned the financial meltdown was now irreparably damaged, and a [...]

The following is a short extract from the recently published biography of political activist and former Labour Party Councillor Joe Deasy by Brian Kenny, published in association with the Hugh Geraghty-Crumlin, Drimnagh, Walkinstown Branch of The Labour Party. Details of how to get Joe Deasy: A Life on the Left are at the end of [...]

The Communist Party of Ireland are organising a public meeting at Matt Merrigan Hall, 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 next Thursday, the 10th of December at 7.30pm.
The talk is titled: The Budget: A Response from the Left and the speakers include:

Michael Taft (Research Officer, Unite Trade Union, well know around here, and for [...]

There’s been so much news in the past week or two that it’s difficult to remember that the Sunday Business Post ran a poll the results of which were published on the 22nd of November. And it’s a fascinating poll in its own way because it points to a serious disconnect now between the government [...]

It’s 2pm on a Sunday afternoon and I’m standing in the Croppies’ Acre in Dublin. Down the street the SWP are holding a conference in the Ashling hotel where Wittgenstein stayed in ‘48 after he came off the train at Heuston. It’s been raining all day but there’s a break in the weather and the [...]

The following is an extract from the ISN pamphlet A Force for Progress? Five Myths About the European Union. which was launched earlier on this week by Harry Browne at Connolly Books.
The European Union has divided opinion on the Left. Some people see it as a bulwark against the power of multi-national corporations that [...]

Invitation to launch of new ISN pamphlet
“A force for progress? Five myths about the European Union”
Connolly Books, 5.30pm, Tuesday November 17th
Speaker: Harry Browne

Saturday November 7th, 10am - 4pm
Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin
Hosted by the Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite

Sessions:
10am - 10.30am - introduction
10.30am - 12pm - Latin America’s New Left

Speaker: Jose Antonio Gutierrez (Chilean left activist)
Many on the international Left have looked to Latin America with hope in the last few years. Powerful social [...]