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The Death of Allende
On September 11th, 1973, perhaps the brightest of the Latin American socialist experiments ended in blood. Salvador Allende was elected to office on November 3rd, 1970 until his eventual murder at the hands of imperialists. He assumed office at the behest of a bourgeois liberal election, it is no surprise his experiment was founded on … Read more
Young people in the north are being failed
Working class young people in the north are being failed. They deserve space to socialise, they deserve to have their voices heard and concerns addressed, before being handed over to police.
CYM Commemorates the 109th Anniversary of the Irish Citizen Army
“On 26th November 2022 the Connolly Youth Movement held a commemoration for the 109th anniversary of the Irish Citizen Army. The Irish Citizen Army had made its first debut on the 23rd November 1913 at Fairview Park, and remains a cornerstone of Irish socialist and working-class history, and their vision of an Irish Socialist Republic remains the ambition of the CYM.”
Nakba Day Commemoration Speech
Today what we are talking about the current situation in Palestine. and the path to Palestinian liberation. We in the Connolly Youth Movement are revolutionary optimists. We believe that there’s a path to liberation for all oppressed people, and this includes the people of Palestine. Right now they’re fighting for their freedom and we believe that if you’re willing to fight … Read more
New Zealand COVID-19 Response Highlights Weaknesses of Neoliberalism
New Zealand’s reaction to COVID-19 has been lauded by many voices in the media, but on closer examination, its stimulus package serves the same function at the core of neoliberal economics – the transfer of wealth from the people to businesses and landlords.
Burnout or Bust: Capitalism & Health (Part I)
The idea of performing meditation during a stressful or hectic shift is laughable but even more so is the initial suggestion of adopting aspects of eastern philosophy to enhance work life. Trying to sanitize and repackage the teachings and reflections of eastern philosophers which centre around harmony and balance are bizarre suggestions by themselves and completely ill-fitting within a corporate environment.
Thanos, Attenborough, Sanger, Hitler and Climate Change – A Brief History of ‘Over-Population’
Does our environmental salvation come in the form of one child policies, the end of famine relief or our own coerced sterilisation?
Dialectics of Climate Science – Liberalism vs. Marxism
Only by rejecting liberalism and basing our understanding on historical materialism and the experience of the masses (and manifesting this in concrete organisational forms) can Varadkar’s ludicrous carbon tax give way to the democratic ownership of the economy.
