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…
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‘Miscellaneous Notes On Republicanism And Socialism In Cork City, 1954–69′ By Jim Lane (Cork, 2005)
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…
The Irish Left Needs a Reality Check
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…
Another world is under construction? Social movement responses to inequality and crisis
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…
COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND: JAMES CONNOLLY MEMORIAL LECTURE 15th May 2010
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…
Forgotten Faces of Capitalism in Ireland, Agriculture and Fishing
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…
Ripening of Time, Issue One, 1976: Introductory Notes on Dominated Ireland
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…
Latest Poll Watch: Are We Seeing a Fundamental Shift?
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…
The Inexorable Political Rise…
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…
Depression: Does a major economic crisis always and inevitably benefit the Left?
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…
Joe Deasy: A Life on the Left – An Extract
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 Budget: A Response from the Left
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…
Reading the Runes… the Latest Polls and the Left…
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….
Lights of the City
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…
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