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 [...]

It’s been a busy week for Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, authors of Lost Revolution (reviewed here). The book launch was held on Thursday while on Saturday the Desmond Greaves Summer School had a session entitled: “Remembering 1969: memory and history” at which Brian Hanley and Mick Ryan were speaker and chair respectively.

There has been loads interest in Brian Hanley and Scott Miller’s book The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party here, on Dublin Opinion and on Cedar Lounge Revolution.
So readers who may be around Dublin city centre later on this week might like to go to the launch of the [...]

A new generation of Irishmen are creating a new revolution in Ireland and this time they will not be satisfied with half-measures.”
In the run-up to the 1972 Irish referendum on E.E.C. membership, Official Sinn Féin set up a radio station in Dublin in order to propagate its message for a No vote. The station had [...]