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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JOE Biden has now decided to use long range missiles against Russia-obviously to escalate hisUkrainian war and trap Trump within it. This is putting the world in greater danger by escalating thewar. In January 2025 Donald Trump will begin his second Presidency of the US. The choice of eitherDonald Trump or Kamala Harris was of …
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.
