The new issue of Forward focuses on Austerity and its impact on communities, and how we can overcome this to build alternatives centred on dual power.
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The 2000 Ton Co-Living City
The Dublin Inquirer recently reported on how the new Hendrons Co-Living scheme will be managed, based on planning documents – and the findings are quite shocking. Thermal imaging cameras will be installed, to measure occupants body temperature; this data will then be collected and analysed. According to the Management Plan, “anyone displaying a raised temperature will be advised to isolate for a period”. Additionally, the digitised access control system will limit entry to certain parts of the building, based on the number of people in the space.
A Train to Class: A Snowpiercer Review
As Snowpiercer is trending again, we’ve published a review looking at the ideological themes of the show.
Just like now, we see the struggle by a slim minority of us to maintain, sustain and develop an organic link to our class and ultimately facilitate the empowerment and emancipation of our class. To stay true to our cause and not compromise midway for a slightly more alluring lifestyle. To build a community instead of elevating individuals.
A Chapter of Horrors: The Great Hunger in Irish History
This article is part 2 in the first CYM Education Series: “Lessons of History”. Its origins are in a reading group for Connolly’s 1910 pamphlet “Labour in Irish History” based around a reading group for the Belfast branch of the CYM. Different members did reports on different chapters and given the consistent quality and relevance…
It’s the Wrong Uncle Joe in the White House
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.
CYM Statement on Mother and Baby Homes
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.
CYM Statement on Disaffiliation
PUBLIC STATEMENT CYM Ard Comhairle, 18/01/21 On the 9th of January, 2021 the Connolly Youth Movement convened an Extraordinary Ard Fheis (EOAF) to determine the nature of our relationship to the Communist Party of Ireland. This EOAF was called as a result of a series of political discussions that had occurred within the CYM in…
Comments on a Failed State
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?
Smear Campaigns Won’t Beat the Epidemic
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.
How the Irish Judiciary Became Political Appointees
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?