Ecosocialism
Leo Varadkar is deliberately blocking Bríd Smith’s Climate Emergency Bill. Eoghan Ó’Ceannabháin explains. The term gaslighting isn’t part of our mainstream vocabulary in Ireland, but watching Leo Varadkar’s attack on Bríd Smith in the Dáil last Wednesday during an exchange about People Before Profit’s Climate
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John Gray continues the discussion on the Belfast General Strike of 1919. John’s original piece can be found here, and a reply by Conor Kostick here. Conor Kostick’s ‘reply’ to my own article on the 1919 General Strike is certainly useful in that it more fairly portrays the
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Conor Kostick replies to John Gray’s article on the Belfast General Strike of 1919 (found here), arguing that opportunities for socialist politics during the period should not be underestimated. I believe the 1919 general strike in Belfast was a much more radical event than depicted by John Gray’s
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When 15,000 Gaeligoirí took to the streets of Belfast campaigning for an Irish language act, they were accused of ‘politicising the language’. Here, Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin looks at how the Irish language was really politicised and argues that fighting for minority rights will always be political activism – but
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As the devastating impact of Welfare Reform becomes clearer every day, Goretti Horgan looks at the specific impact of the cuts on women, and shows the alternative that Stormont could have taken to avoid these measures. There are so many awful stories about what I Daniel Blake’s director Ken
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The US mid-term elections last year were described as a watershed moment by many commentators. Lichi D’Amelio, an activist in the US, gives her take on the situation The 2018 midterm elections were highly anticipated to be a referendum on the Trump agenda. While there was some debate
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With the Tories in crisis and revelations that the EU are preparing to implement a hard border in Ireland, do we have to side with either London of Brussels? Gerry Carroll MLA gives his take, in a partially edited address given to a public meeting in Scotland. I think the
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On Sunday 13 April 1919 began one of the most spirited, radical actions ever to have taken place in Ireland: the declaration of the Limerick ‘soviet’. Conor Kostick looks at why the soviet began, and what lessons we can take for today. On Sunday 13 April 1919, began one of
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100 years ago Belfast was gripped by a remarkable general strike of Catholic and Protestant workers. John Gray, an author and historian of Belfast labour, looks back at that extraordinary event. This January marks the centenary of the most formidable strike in Belfast’s history. It is usually described as
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Two years on from An Bhliain Dhearg (‘The Red Year’), the Irish language continues to be an elephant in the room for those desperate for Stormont to get back up and running. Dream Dearg activist Somhairle Mag Uidhir revisits the lessons of that year of activism. The stand-out events
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Kieran Allen comments on the situation in Venezuela and the important lessons for socialists around the world. Donald Trump is preparing the ground for military intervention in Venezuela. He is working closely with the leader of the far right opposition, Juan Guaido, who has proclaimed himself President. Trump has recognised
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The SDLP leadership will herald their partnership with Fianna Fáil as a new dawn in Irish politics. But as Kieran Allen explains, the entry of one of Europe’s most corrupt parties into the North is nothing to cheer about. The new ‘partnership’ between the SDLP and Fianna Fáil will