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Nakba Day Commemoration Speech

Posted on May 26, 2022 by CYM Committee

RM, Corcaigh Originally delivered by a CYM member at the 2022 Nakba Day commemoration in Cork Today what we are talking about the current situation in Palestine. and the path to Palestinian liberation. We in the Connolly Youth Movement are revolutionary optimists. We believe that there’s a path to liberation for all oppressed people, and this includes the people…

Bullshit Jobs – Survey

Posted on November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 by Alex Homits

Bullshit Jobs are jobs that are loosely described as having no productive social value and being drawn out for no particular reason. Bullshit Jobs are not necessarily shit jobs, because a lot of shit jobs are extremely useful to society. Think about that definition as you fill in the short survey.

New Zealand COVID-19 Response Highlights Weaknesses of Neoliberalism

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 by admin

New Zealand’s reaction to COVID-19 has been lauded by many voices in the media, but on closer examination, its stimulus package serves the same function at the core of neoliberal economics – the transfer of wealth from the people to businesses and landlords.

Left anti-communism: The Unkindest Cut by Michael Parenti

Posted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 by Alex Homits

    This essay is from the book ‘Blackshirts and Reds’ and has been republished due to the on-going propaganda war against the People’s Republic of China. You can find the full PDF here if you’re tired of the imperial let anti-communist and racist propaganda. Click to access michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism.pdf     In the United States,…

Street Fighting by James Connolly

Posted on March 29, 2020March 29, 2020 by Alex Homits

This is one of a series of articles written by the Irish Marxist, James Connolly, in the newspaper Workers’ Republic during May-July 1915. The articles analyzed insurrections in cities from 1830 to 1905, concluding that the Russian experience in 1905 “succeeded in establishing the fact that even under modern conditions the professional soldier is, in…

Burnout or Bust: Capitalism & Health (Part I)

Posted on March 14, 2020March 27, 2022 by admin

The idea of performing meditation during a stressful or hectic shift is laughable but even more so is the initial suggestion of adopting aspects of eastern philosophy to enhance work life. Trying to sanitize and repackage the teachings and reflections of eastern philosophers which centre around harmony and balance are bizarre suggestions by themselves and completely ill-fitting within a corporate environment.

Thanos, Attenborough, Sanger, Hitler and Climate Change – A Brief History of ‘Over-Population’

Posted on December 21, 2019December 21, 2019 by CYM Committee

Does our environmental salvation come in the form of one child policies, the end of famine relief or our own coerced sterilisation?

Dialectics of Climate Science – Liberalism vs. Marxism

Posted on December 1, 2019December 6, 2019 by CYM Committee

Only by rejecting liberalism and basing our understanding on historical materialism and the experience of the masses (and manifesting this in concrete organisational forms) can Varadkar’s ludicrous carbon tax give way to the democratic ownership of the economy.

Response to the article on Republican Youth titled ‘Sinn Féin: The One True Working Class Option for Ireland’

Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 by CYM Committee

  The opening salvo of the assertion in the title is that this article is a series of ‘fundamental principles for democratic socialism’. The author, throughout the article interchanges the term ‘socialism’ with ‘democratic socialism’.  The author does not go on to explain what democratic socialism is, but uses the principles below to explain the…

Supermac’s – The Myth of Capitalist Innovation

Posted on November 17, 2019November 19, 2019 by CYM Committee

Part of their strategy is to donate some of their super profits to charity or to sporting organisations such as the GAA. They do this for local and political clout, to be seen as ‘benevolent capitalists’ and obscure the fundamental social relation of production: workers create all of the wealth and have to sell their labour power (time) to employers to get by, while Pat McDonagh lives opulently, holidays and expands his capital in every direction using the wealth he has stolen from his workers.

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