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 [...]

The 9th Peadar O Donnell Weekend took place from the 16th - 18th October. On the Sunday morning there was an excellent debate on the future of the Left in Ireland.
Below are a series of videos from the main speakers. These included Pearse Doherty (Sinn Féin), Veronica Cawley (Labour), Colm Bryce (People Before Profit), Daithí [...]

Let’s think happy thoughts for a brief while because much else is… well, less than happy. So, here’s something that cheered me up at least a bit and it’s a point that is rarely touched on by commentators more concerned with the jockeying for position of the larger centre right political parties. Reading The Lost [...]

Dayschool on Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative
Saturday November 7th, 10am – 4pm
Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin
Hosted by the Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite

Yesterday I spoke to Professor Terrence McDonough on the phone, about his talk at the recent TASC conference entitled Towards a Progressive Economics. In a conversation that lasted about 30 minutes Professor McDonough described how orthodox economics is commonly (and inaccurately) understood and suggested that the left in all its forms should take a fresh [...]