Remembering Fidel – Defending Cuba
On the 25th of November, Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, Hugo René Ramos Milanés, addressed the Connolly Youth Movement at a talk held to remember Fidel Castro, on the 4th anniversary of his death.
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Notes from the 103rd Anniversary of the October Revolution
The CYM held a talk to commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the October Revolution two weeks ago, including a report by the National Education Officer and a talk by Roman Kononenko, secretary of the Komsomol and a central committee member of the KPRF. The following is a report by DG who attended the meeting as well as the National Education Officer’s lecture.
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103 Years Since the October Revolution
We celebrate the event that launched a thousand struggles – the Great October Socialist Revolution, and remember its lessons for communists today.
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Why Bolivia Proves Socialists Right
The results of the Bolivian election hold key lessons for the Left. The Bolivian situation warns of the dangers faced by social movements of right-wing violence but are also an optimistic sign of what can be achieved when popular mobilisation against imperialist intervention occurs.
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The US Fuels the Extremism it Condemns
The current narrative of the dominant imperial powers seeks to pit “Western values” against Islamic extremism in a cultural struggle of civilisations – the geopolitical factors driving imperialist intervention in the Middle East and the backlash run much deeper and according to the lines of material self-interest. of the capitalist class .
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Peader O’Donnell and the Monaghan Soviet
Across Europe the fires of revolution burned bright. From the battlefields of the Russian Civil War to the streets of Berlin, from Italian factories to the Irish countryside, civil disorder and outright rebellion were the order of the day. The Monaghan Soviet was one of the major acts of resistance in Ireland that would set the tone of aspiration and solidarity for the Irish left into the future.
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Support Left-Wing Ultra Culture
Ultras groups have been reviled and castigated in the media, but they are part of an unyielding tradition of class solidarity that refuses to reconstruct itself in the face of pressure from neoliberalism.
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Sinn Féin Must Re-examine Relationship With the British Monarchy
Earlier this week, Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill met with the Prince of Wales, as part of his ongoing trip to the 6 counties, this raises the question of when, if ever, Irish republicans should meet with representatives of an occupying regime.
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Communists in India Raise 1.4 Million USD for COVID Relief
This article is a republication of an article by Muhammed Shabeer in People’s Dispatch in solidarity with the efforts of the Democratic Youth Federation of India in the State of Kerala, where they’ve raised over the equivalent of over a million dollars for those worst affected by the crisis.
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Maghaberry Gaol – The Historical Context
This document has been republished with the permission of its author, Nathan Hastings, a former prisoner, in order to develop people’s understanding of the current situation faced by political prisoners in Ireland today, as well as the prevailing conditions in the penal regime throughout the country which the governments both north and south use to reinforce their political control.
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