War and Peace by Lynda Walker LAST week Gaza’s Health Ministry said that the number of deaths registered since 2023 by hospitals there is over 50,021. This does not include those who are buried under rubble or whose deaths have not been verified by a hospital. Gaza’s authorities say 11,000 people are missing or presumed …
THE Irish Communist Party/Páirtí Cumannach Eireann welcomes the publication of the Northern Executive’s Programme for government earlier this month – the first such programme in ten years. But while the publication of the Programme is to be welcomed, it has fundamental weaknesses. It is strong on aspiration but weak on the details of how the …
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The European Union and the whole Atlanticist movement has been left in total confusion by US President Trump’s bold decision to seek peace in Ukraine. The European Union, and the comprador political class in Ireland, must now come to terms with the consequences of their own blood-stained rhetoric.
Jenny Farrell documents the descent of even previously pro-peace parties in Germany like the Green Party into war-mongering and hawkish rhetoric. As Germany enters a war footing in a geopolitical environment rapidly heating up, voices for peace are increasingly drowned up by the clamor for armament and adventure.
Trump’s disgraceful statements on Palestine should come as no shock to those familiar with the long and ignoble traditions of American exceptionalism and imperialism. Ireland must take a principled position, not just against Trump, but the entire accumulated weight of US foreign policy.
As the NHS enters a new period of outsourcing and normalisation of poor service delivery with privatisation as a long-term goal of both Labour and Tory governments, communists need to put forward the argument for a better way.
Rosa Luxemburg believed war and peace was an issued for women. Along with Clara Zetkin, she was imprisoned for her anti-war activities. She was eventually murdered by fascists in 1919 for her political views. Clare Daly, former MEP, will be reporting back from this year’s Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin. Discussing global power relations and shifting hegemony of the west and how we can still win global peace.
THIS week a general election will take place in the South, and the electorate have the chance to pass their verdict on the outgoing government – a government that has failed completely to tackle the crises in housing, health, rural development; or to even contemplate tackling the inequalities in Irish society. This failure is not …
WITH the election campaigns now in full swing in the South, the key issues of housing,health, cost of living and economic development have rightfully been the main focus.The government parties, of course, want to limit as much as possible any discussion of theirabject failures in these areas, and are raising the spectre of economic instability …
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