Alex Homits 
The Second World War was not an imperialist war, as some Marxists still maintain. It was a people’s anti-fascist war. It was fought to defend the rights and freedoms the labour movement had sought for a century of more.
The Special Criminal Court was set up in 1939 during the “Emergency Period.” It has been used to suppress Irish Republicans and Communists alike. We spoke with Dónal Ó Coisdealbha about his experience with the SCC.
This essay is from the book ‘Blackshirts and Reds’ and has been republished due to the on-going propaganda war against the People’s Republic of China. You can find the full PDF here if you’re tired of the imperial let anti-communist and racist propaganda. Click to access michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism.pdf In the United States, … Read more
This is one of a series of articles written by the Irish Marxist, James Connolly, in the newspaper Workers’ Republic during May-July 1915. The articles analyzed insurrections in cities from 1830 to 1905, concluding that the Russian experience in 1905 “succeeded in establishing the fact that even under modern conditions the professional soldier is, in … Read more