Connolly Youth Movement
Contrary to widespread belief and misinformation from the far right, Joe Biden and the Democrat Party are neither left wing nor communists, in fact, they are politically and economically identical to their Republican counterpart. They simply wrap themselves in the flag of social justice and smile at you while they deprive you or drone strike villages in the Middle East.
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In recent years we have seen that the disdain for single mothers has not altogether disappeared. They endure humiliating means testing for social welfare payments, with social welfare officers showing up to their homes and searching their belongings for evidence of a secret man in the house.
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PUBLIC STATEMENT CYM Ard Comhairle, 18/01/21 On the 9th of January, 2021 the Connolly Youth Movement convened an Extraordinary Ard
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As the US continues to drift towards greater political division, the latest presidential election is a perfect example of what pathological denial can produce when it is utilized by those trying to avoid awkward political issues. Now that Joe Biden has been proclaimed as the winner of the heavily contested US presidential race and with what appears to be the formation of a coup attempt by Trump, the question on everyone’s lips is now what?
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Governments across the world are desperate for someone else to blame. Their mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis has led to countless unnecessary deaths, mainstream media, are redirecting public anger by capitalising on people’s misconceptions about China to whip up negative sentiment towards its people.
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The recent controversy around the failure of Séamus Woulfe, a Fine Gael political appointee to the Supreme Court, to resign after his implication in Golfgate has raised serious questions about how judges are appointed in Ireland, and how it came to be that party political appointments to the judiciary are the norm. What are the roots of the class bias in the Irish legal system, and how can we create a form of justice that serves the people instead of the elite?
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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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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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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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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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