John McAnulty is a former Belfast city councillor. During a debate in the council chamber he referred to the British flag as “the butcher’s apron”, a reference to that state’s murderous imperial history. For saying that out loud he received [...]
The United Left Alliance (ULA) was launched in Dublin in late November 2010 to contest the southern Irish general election a few weeks later. Liam Mac Uaid explains why it is falling apart and what we can learn from the [...]
This article first appeared on the Irish site Sráid Marx Savita Halappanavar, who was 17 weeks pregnant, arrived with back pain at University Hospital Galway on October 21st but was found to be miscarrying. Doctors told her the baby wouldn’t survive [...]
Socialist Democracy, the organisation in Ireland which supports the Fourth International, has made its bulletin available for download here. It has coverage of South Africa, the United Left Alliance and reports on the class struggle in Ireland.
This article is taken from a new Irish Marxist blog Sráid Marx The handshake between the British Queen and Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness is something significant even though most people in the North of Ireland have shrugged their shoulders [...]
Smashing H-Block (The rise and fall of the popular campaign against criminalization 1976-82) – University of Liverpool by F. Stuart Ross reviewed by Liam Mac Uaid The conventional account of the prison protests in the north of Ireland in the [...]
We hope to be making available on this site some important texts from the Fourth International in Britain. The 1972 International Marxist Group pamphlet Ireland Unfree was written as an introduction to Irish history and the revolutionary Marxist approach to [...]
The United Left Alliance (ULA) has five members in the southern Irish Parliament. The Alliance brings together the Irish Socialist Workers Party. Socialist Party and a range of smaller groups and individuals. At a time when the Irish working class [...]
Brian Hughes looks at Martin McGuinness’ decision to contest the southern Irish presidential election. More updates on Irish politics can be found at Socialist Democracy’s site. The decision by Sinn Fein to nominate Martin McGuinness as a candidate for the [...]
Birmingham Socialist Resistance public meeting John McAnulty Socialist Democracy — Ireland 7.30pm Tuesday 23rd August Bennetts, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham City Centre During the recent “marching season” in the North of Ireland there was savage sectarian violence, the most dramatic being [...]
Socialist Democracy, the Irish organisation which support the Fourth International, is backing an independent socialist alternative in the West Belfast constituency for the assembly in the north of Ireland through its sponsorship of the candidature of Brian Pelan. Brian is [...]
John Meehan reports from Dublin Writing in the North American online magazine Counterpunch Harry Browne zoned in on two key features on the Irish February 25 2011 General Result : The same old : A Fine Gael / Labour coalition [...]
The Irish Republican Prisoners Support Group has announced that its Bloody Sunday anniversary meeting in London on 31 January, to support political status for Irish Republican prisoners, has come under threat from the far right. The event has been passed [...]
What’s the difference between Ireland and the UK? Probably about two years! When Ireland’s property and credit bubble burst the Irish government poured tens of billions of Euros into the banking and building industries to stop them going completely bankrupt. [...]
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