What Connolly Teaches Us About Elections
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Why Ireland Needs Public Housing
In the past, young people were able to receive a home from the local authority which led to localized construction projects. Most people in Ireland lived in homes built by their local corporation or council, the same model existed in the United Kingdom where local authorities constructed mass local housing. Seems simple, right? Today the
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The Student Strike That Changed British Education Forever
On the first of April, 66 of the 72 attending students they began what would be the longest strike ever for the reinstatement of their teachers. The school carried on for the striking children, for a ‘strike school’ was set up by Kitty in front of the school and teaching carried on as usual, with the National Union of Teachers funding her. The ruling-class and the church reacted quickly, fining those parents who didn’t send their children to the official school, and evicting people that helped the striking families out of their houses and off of their glebe land.
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Connolly Youth Movement Congressional Amendments
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Amendment to constitutional article on branches 7.1 The Chairperson of the branch is tasked with: Organisation of branch and committee meetings, set the agenda in liaison with the branch secretary and committee, direct and encourage the branch to work towards the fulfillment of the Programme. The Secretary of the branch is tasked with:
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Connolly Youth Movement speech at the Communist Party summer school
The following speech is from the General Secretary of the Connolly Youth Movement at the Communist Party summer school in Benburb Comrades, old and new. It is and has always been in the interest of every movement in history to reach out to the young people within their communities and politicize them. Our task
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Union of Students in Ireland: Radicals or Opportunists
Socialists in Ireland must ask themselves if the USI is genuinely an ally in our fight for the liberation of young people, or if it is just a bourgeois institution that can never deliver the needed material interests of young people in Ireland. I believe that rather than being a force for radical change in
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Youth Participation and Youth Employment
Youth participation in unions in 2012 sat below 5% in Ireland (Vandaele, 2013), with this fact being mirrored in numerous countries around the EU. There are numerous possible explanations for this fact, but in this article I want to focus on one in particular. When thinking about it, it might seem at first that young
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