The Eve of Pride – A Radical, Virtual Conversation
The grounding of queer organising in queer history is essential.
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Author: CYM Committee
Race, Jazz & Police Brutality
The concept of being brutalised by police days after creating one of the most important works in music history was entirely surreal for white people, it was as if the Beatles were attacked days after releasing Abbey Road.
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Nkrumah’s Liberation of Ghana from Britain
‘Aid to a neo-colonial State is merely a revolving credit, paid by the neo-colonial State and returned to the neo-colonial master in the form of increased profits’
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China’s 10 Day Hospital vs Dublin’s Free-Market €2.4 Billion Disaster
The Children’s’ Hospital will be built at some stage, but it will have lined the pockets of many different consultants, officials, developers, builders, contractors before it actually helps a single patient.
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Ireland Stands with Minneapolis #BlackLivesMatter
This is a tragedy, but it is no accident. It is part of the law enforcement and justice system in the United States, which dates back to slavery. It has maintained this system, and ethnic minorities are imprisoned and murdered in wild disproportion to population amounts.
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Dublin Bar Still Doesn’t Understand the Problem After Comparing the Lockdown to a Genocide
‘We’ve had our pubs, gigs & festivals taken from us. We’re like the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto being told to hop on the train to Auschwitz’
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How the United States Inspired the Holocaust
Irish fascists specify who they’re racist against and who they aren’t on the basis of whiteness and religion. They draw their ideas from the same place Hitler drew his, the US.
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Angajat român pe salariul minim în Dublin, mort din cauza COVID-19
Soția lui, Mirela, internată tot din cauza COVID-19 a spus “Nu știu cum voi trăi fără el”. Dorel Giurcă, în vârstă de 53 de ani, a murit din cauza COVID-19 pe 8 mai. Câștiga 10.80 euro pe oră ca om de serviciu în spitalul St James din Dublin.
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Why James Connolly was Executed
The crisis of 2020 can be a rupture in the status-quo of capitalism as much as the First World War and the 1916 Rising was. We must look at his contributions to applying Marxism to the Irish context, and his unique ability to recognise the political moment he was living in. For Connolly, Marxism was not an abstract theoretical position to be talked about in universities, nor a dogma to be appealed to as an authority. Marxism was simply a key to be used to unlock Irish History.
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4 Reasons Capitalists Are Furious at Michael Moore’s New Film (& Why You Need To Watch It)
‘A gift to Big Oil’, claims Vox’s Leah C. Stokes. Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox had the film temporarily removed from sites with the help of a twitter mob. The creators “have done a grave disservice to us and the planet” cried Penn State climatologist, Michael E. Mann, who soon after compared Michael Moore to Donald Trump and Putin.
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