Eoin Ó Murchú analyses the results of the general election in Britain and Northern Ireland, commenting on the innate limitations of establishment electoral politics in delivering results for working class power and Irish unity.
The Irish Communist Party has prepared a special supplement for this week’s edition of Unity to coincide with its participation at the Durham Miners’ Gala. Now available here.
Alex Homits writes for Unity on the symbiotic relationship between the failed neoliberal capitalist system in Ireland and the re-invigoration of the far-right. The far-right itself serves the interests of the establishment in many ways by scapegoating minority groups for the vicious exploitation of finance capital.
Eoin Ó Murchú writes for Unity on the causes and context of Sinn Féin’s mediocre result in the 2024 local and European elections, as well as its implications for progressive politics in Ireland.
The Irish Communist Party welcomes the recognition of the Palestinian state by the Irish government under Simon Harris. This is a step in the right direction insofar as it recognises the right of the Palestinian people to statehood and national self-determination. The battle for an actualization of this Palestinian state is still being played out …
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Jenny Farrell writes for Unity on Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos which provides a new and insightful view of life in the German Democratic Republic. Since the time of writing, the novel has won the International Booker Prize.
The Irish Communist Party calls for a vote of Yes and No in the forthcoming referendums and demands real solutions instead of symbolic ones.
Lynda Walker criticises attempts by unionist leaders to spin the recent developments at Stormont and focuses on the necessity to develop a strong working class position as the devolved state enters a new government amidst growing desperation to protect the union.
For two long years working class people in the north of Ireland have watched as the DUP played political games, dissolving Stormont and unilaterally collapsing the legislative political process.
Workers constantly have to struggle to get pay increases but in Northern Ireland at the present time public sector workers are facing a double struggle, the money is there (whether it will be sufficient remains to be seen) but there is no regional government to oversee wage increases.