While the British prime minister Keir Starmer preens himself over the reset of relations between the UK and the EU – a reset warmly welcomed by the capitalist government in Dublin – the stark reality remains that this reset offers nothing to workers in Ireland or Britain who are being squeezed by higher prices, social welfare cuts and missed employment opportunities.
This article recounts Dympne McGlade’s memory of a family experience which runs contrary to the grain of jingoistic commemorations of the Second World War, highlighting political repression of republicans in Ireland and communal suffering. Celebrations of victory contrast with the deep and abiding harm which was inflicted upon the colonial subjects of some of the victors, continuing to this day.
JAMES Connolly, born in Edinburgh of Irish parents, experienced and wrote about the struggles of workers against capitalism and imperialism. Taking part in those struggles in Ireland, Britain and America he worked for the unity of the working class. He was a socialist, a Marxist an internationalist and a patriot-committed to the real independence of Ireland.
Micheál O’Riordan, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, fought with the XV International Brigade in the Spanish Anti-Fascist War and for the unity of Ireland and its working class.
Over 75 years ago, Nye Bevan declared the creation of a health service where “the rich and the poor are treated alike, that poverty is not a disability, and wealth is not advantaged.” The capitalist class are grinning as the carnival now begins and human life is debased into another commodity to play with. The working class now calls new champions to show their steel, protect our livelihoods and win the coming world.
The legacy of the second world war has become a combat zone in its own right with a conscious ideological effort in the West to re-write events to exclude the legacy of the Soviet Union. The sacrifices of the past cannot be warped to serve new wars of the present.
By Ernest Walker 11th April 1945, taking advantage of the close proximity of US troops, what was known as the International Camp Committee gave the order to 850 inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp, organised in 178 groups, to stage an armed attack on the camp guards. The revolt commenced at 2.30pm and by 3.15pm the …
By John Molloy THE economic consequences of Donald Trump’s language on tariffs is being considered by all the countries who trade with the US and the implications for the world economy obsessively debated in the media. While of course, if fulfilled, the effects of these White House announcements are huge, the modern need to fill …
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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 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.