Another global wave of critique and resistance would come, I told myself and anyone who asked. For many years I watched and waited. Not passively, but actively, keeping alive the social memory of movements past, analysing the ever shifting shape of the global system and going into the streets to protest against many forms of [...]

The December edition of the Socialist Voice is out now (PDF) or from the Communist Party of Ireland Socialist Voice website.
Articles in this issue include:

Monopoly capitalism: “technocracy” or fascism? [NL]

The outing of “social Europe” [CMK]

The budget: Make the poor, the sick, children and pensioners pay [EMC]

Enda’s big speech [MA]

A tale [...]

Book Review: Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism, Kieran Allen (Pluto Press, 2011)

“It is true that labour produces wonderful things for the rich - but for the worker it produces privation … It produces beauty - but for the worker, deformity.” Karl Marx
Kieran Allen’s treatise dispels the conventional opinion that Marxism is obsolete - [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Of the Cosgrave administration [1923-1932], D.R. O’Connor Lysaght has written: “Irish credit remained dependent on British. Irish credit had to be backed by British credit. Irish currency remained a prettier form of British currency. Irish exporters supplied the British market.” This comprador bourgeois fraction, made up of ranchers, employers, and administrators operated a specific form [...]

Under the title “Introduction to Marxism,” a new political education series began in Dublin in October. The course covers classes and class struggle, the state and democracy, philosophy, Marxist economics, imperialism and globalisation, culture, and the role of the CPI. Those wishing to attend should send an e-mail request to the CPI:cpoi@eircom.net
The presentations will [...]

Sam Nolan at 80 from conormccabe on Vimeo.
This is an eighteen-minute video which was made for the occasion of Sam Nolan’s birthday celebration in the Mansion House, which was held on Friday 8 October 2010.
The video is drawn from over eleven hours of Sam in conversation with Mick O’Reilly, former Irish secretary of the ATGWU [...]

Europe wide day of action in protest against the cuts and austerity measures being imposed by the EU Commission and carried out be national governments.  Please assemble outside the Anglo-Irish Bank  headquarters St Stephen Green at 12-30 and march to the Dail.  It has been poorly organised and advertised by the TU movement but everyone [...]

An analysis by the Research Section of the Workers’ Party
The global background
The current global crisis emerged from the workings of the capitalist class structure, initially in the USA and subsequently around the world.  Since the mid-1970s, workers’ average real wages in the USA stopped rising partly because the computerisation of production displaced workers and partly because [...]