Liam Mellows, organiser, republican and revolutionary. He is remembered for is role as a Fianna Éireann organiser and for his rejection of the Treaty, occupation of the Four Courts and subsequent execution by the Free State. Excerpts of his speeches portray the true relationship between America and Ireland.
Liam Mellows Speeches in America Read More »
Eamon Ryan has been leaking internal information to apply pressure to his fellow party members to go into coalition. Green Party councillors have supported Fianna Fáil candidates in local areas. Green Party councillors voted to privatise O’Devaney Gardens social housing.
Ireland Has Seen Green-Opportunism From Eamon Ryan Before Read More »
One hundred and fifty years have passed since the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to the world as Lenin. Today, the Connolly Youth Movement celebrates the life of a revolutionary vanguard.
Happy Birthday, Lenin! Read More »
Ireland has among the strongest property rights recognition in the world. Imagine if, instead of protecting the right to property, the Constitution protected the right to housing. If the might of the government vindicated every individual’s right to shelter.
The Irish Constitution Puts Property Rights Before Human Rights Read More »
The Soviets are frequently represented in fiction as comically excessive villains. The gulag is held up as the pinnacle of this malevolence, but is this focus on demonising socialist states a way for developers to avoid more relevant social criticism at home?
What Actually was a Gulag? – Call of Duty’s 2020 Red Scare Read More »
Grand Theft Auto is a series with a justified reputation for excessive violence and hedonistic lifestyles, but is it possible to draw an anti-capitalist narrative from what might otherwise read as glorification?
A Marxist Analysis of Grand Theft Auto V Read More »
Faced with the establishment of workers’ democracy across the globe, alongside growing socialist movements in their own countries, the West took drastic measures. It redistributed a tiny portion of its super-profits, amassed through bloody imperialist exploitation, to smother the class interests of the Western working class with moderate material concessions.
How the Welfare State Neutered Revolution in Europe Read More »
Social democrats, who often repeat the lie equating fascism and communism, are more than happy to give a few token statements, as they often do, but in reality will watch and even make deals with fascists.
Social Democrats Have a History of Supporting Fascists Read More »
Social democracy relies on Imperialism to generate profits and export poverty to the developing world while reaping the rewards gained from exploiting entire nations.
Public Services: Paid for by the Global South Read More »
Now is the perfect time to reflect on the problem of the second shift faced by women in the workplace and home. This article reviews Working Parents and the Revolution at Home by Professor Arlie Hochschild and explores how men can behave more responsibly in the division of labour.