Thursday, Sep 2nd 2010
New-look An Phoblacht on sale now.
With more pages, more photos and more colour, the 32-page July issue includes…
Ballymurphy Massacre, 1971 - Prelude to Bloody Sunday?
The Parachute Regiment shot dead 11 people over 3 days in west Belfast in the wake of internment in 1971 and just months before being deployed in Derry
The so-called ‘dissidents’
Belfast activist [...]
What follows deals almost entirely with internal divisions within Cork republicanism and is not meant as a comprehensive outline of republican and left-wing activities in the city during the period covered. Moreover, these notes were put together following specific queries from historical researchers and, hence, the focus at times is on matters that they raised.’ [...]
WSM Launch The Irish Anarchist Review
The Workers Solidarity Movement have set up a new political magazine called The Irish Anarchist Review, which aims to pursue “a non-sectarian approach, taking ideas from various left currents, mainstream discourse, and reflections on experiences of life and struggle. We will take, print, and discuss, anything that we find useful [...]
This is an edited version of an article written for the latest edition of the Scottish Left Review
The situation that the Irish Left finds itself during the largest recession in the history of the Irish state, and the greatest crisis in global capitalism since the Great Depression, is not that different in terms of [...]
This article is an edited version of a presentation I gave at the “Equality in a time of crisis” conference organised by the Egalitarian World Initiative and the UCD School of Social Justice (May 6 - 7).
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Introduction: youthful mistakes
I was asked to talk for this paper about [...]
COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND
JAMES CONNOLLY MEMORIAL LECTURE
15th May 2010
“21st-Century anti-imperialism”
A chara.
This year our invited speaker to deliver the 2010 James Connolly Memorial Lecture is Andrew Murray, Chairperson, Stop the War Coalition, Britain.
The lecture will take place in the Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, (5mins from College Green) at 2-00pm this coming Saturday 15th May. You [...]
As with the first article in this series, forgotten faces is more of a discussion piece than a finished analysis. It’s only in the later issues of The Ripening of Time, especially nos. 11 and 13 which date from 1979 and 1980 respectively, that we get a full and detailed Marxist analysis of Ireland in [...]
Last month Tom Redmond of the CPI gave me a large collection of newspapers and pamphlets relating to the Irish left, including all fourteen issues of The Ripening of Time (1976-1982), an Irish Marxist journal produced by the Ripening of Time collective.
Throughout its six-year run, The Ripening of Time provided introductions to Marxist theory, as [...]
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 [...]