Working class communities in Dublin like Crumlin and Tallaght were underfunded and neglected from their inception, but the people themselves have now taken the lead in building a better future and like any revolution – music is at the heart of that.
No Revolution without Song Read More »
Labour in Irish History is considered one of Connolly’s central work. It arose out of a desire to crystallise 200 years of experience of class struggle. This series introduces and analyses a text which is still highly relevant today.
Why study Labour in Irish History? Read More »
Cold sweats, mental breakdowns and social isolation. The points race is an outdated concept based around a carefully designed high stress environment,, but the government’s COVID-19 plan is guaranteed to fail students on an unprecedented scale.
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.
Why James Connolly was Executed Read More »
‘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.
Liam Mellows, organiser, republican and revolutionary. He is remembered for is role as a Fianna Éireann organiser and for his rejection of the Treaty, occupation of the Four Courts and subsequent execution by the Free State. Excerpts of his speeches portray the true relationship between America and Ireland.
Liam Mellows Speeches in America Read More »
Eamon Ryan has been leaking internal information to apply pressure to his fellow party members to go into coalition. Green Party councillors have supported Fianna Fáil candidates in local areas. Green Party councillors voted to privatise O’Devaney Gardens social housing.
Ireland Has Seen Green-Opportunism From Eamon Ryan Before Read More »
One hundred and fifty years have passed since the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to the world as Lenin. Today, the Connolly Youth Movement celebrates the life of a revolutionary vanguard.
Happy Birthday, Lenin! Read More »
Ireland has among the strongest property rights recognition in the world. Imagine if, instead of protecting the right to property, the Constitution protected the right to housing. If the might of the government vindicated every individual’s right to shelter.
The Irish Constitution Puts Property Rights Before Human Rights Read More »
The Soviets are frequently represented in fiction as comically excessive villains. The gulag is held up as the pinnacle of this malevolence, but is this focus on demonising socialist states a way for developers to avoid more relevant social criticism at home?
What Actually was a Gulag? – Call of Duty’s 2020 Red Scare Read More »