2011 has been a very interesting year for the southern Irish party political left.
The general election in February brought the largest number of left wing deputies into the Oireachtas in its 90-year history. Sixty-three TDs were elected on a variety of social democratic, left republican, revolutionary socialist and independent left platforms.
The combined left vote broke [...]

The September edition of An Phoblacht is out now.

Public Meeting
Understanding the Euro Crisis
Thursday 15 September 7pm
Speakers:
Pearse Doherty TD
Yanis Varoufakis (Greek economist)
Fintan O’Toole
St Stephen’s Suite, Shelbourne Hotel, D2
All Welcome

The July edition of An Phoblacht is out now, and includes Eoin Ó’Broin on the continuing failures of social housing and a review of Conor McCabe’s Sins of the Father.

The June edition of An Phoblacht is out now.
Contents:
Editorial: From Wolfe Tone to today
THE NEW MP FOR WEST BELFAST, PAUL MASKEY
THE 1981 HUNGER STRIKE
COLLUSION AND THE ASSASSINATION OF A CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER
NEW TD JONATHAN O’BRIEN - ‘The Dáil’s in Dire Need of Reform’
NEW MAYOR OF BELFAST NIALL Ó DONNGHAILE - Mayoral chain on young shoulders
THE [...]

AN PHOBLACHT, MAY 2011 - INSIDE THIS ISSUE
SINN FÉIN RISING - ELECTIONS ROUND-UP
CHE GUEVARA’S LIEUTENANT: Interview with Victor Dreke, veteran of the Bay of Pigs and Congo
Donegal Councillor EDDIE FULLERTON: WHO WAS BEHIND HIS MURDER?
MARK THOMAS: Walking Israel’s Wall
Scotland: Republicans targeted by parcel bomb
Three new Sinn Féin senators elected
30 years on, Bobby Sands continues to [...]

Today at the Gresham Hotel there is a conference titled Political Change and People Power which has the expressed aim of discussing the ‘New Political Possibilities in Ireland for all Left-Wing Parties in Partnership with Civil Society’. We are now almost a week into the General Election, and so far we have had the continuous [...]

If yesterday’s Paddy Power opinion poll is anything to go by, the result of next weeks Donegal South West by-election could herald a greater degree of electoral and political change than previously anticipated.
500 voters from across the constituency were asked to state their preferences for the by-election, for a future general election and for [...]

On Monday the 15th of November last I interviewed Joanne Spain, Sinn Féin’s economic advisor and party strategy manager. The interview dealt first with Sinn Féin’s pre-Budget submission, which unlike those of the other main parties in the Dáil argues that the deficit must be closed not through cuts but by providing a properly [...]

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Sinn Féin Offers a Better Way
Sinn Féin has published its response to the Dublin government’s threatened plans to cut public spending once more in its Budget for 2011, There Is A Better Way. The Fianna Fail/ Green coalition in government has outlined planned further [...]