WHILE opinion polls, North and South, show an increasing discontent with the failures of the current system, especially in housing, health services and the cost of living crisis, there is at the same time a frustrating sense of helplessness.
But the working class is only helpless when it stands back and leaves the development of social and economic policy in the hands of others.
MARY Wollstonecraft, advocate of women’s rights, she grew up immersed in debates about reason, social reform, and equality. Frankenstein engages with contemporary materialist science, presenting life as a product of matter rather than divine intervention. Political and social pressures extended to her family: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s atheism and radicalism made England hostile, prompting the couple’s 1816 exile to the Continent.
MANY people know that Bloody Sunday, 30th January is the anniversary of the day (1972) when 26 civilians were shot by the British Army in Derry, 14 of them died. The event marks the date when the lives of relatives, friends, civil rights activists changed-to become for many of them especially relatives, a life devoted to getting justice for those injured and killed.
Eoin Ó Murchú analyses the notable results of the most recent Red C poll, which suggests an increasing likelihood of a Left Unity government following the next election. But what exactly do we mean by Left? There is nothing Left about surrendering to the global marketeers; nothing Left about the fundamental treaty of the European Union which insists that all member states must adhere to a market economy; nothing Left about prioritising peripheral issues ahead of the bread and butter concerns of the working class.
Like the broken clock being right twice a day, even Trump, occasionally, cannot fail to express the reality of who calls the shots. The truth he almost articulates, is that NATO is there to advance and underwrite red in tooth and claw US imperialism. No one described this better than the recently deceased Michael Parenti
IS the quote from the bible-Luke 14.2 and is normally associated with Christmas. Unfortunately, there are too many western political and military leaders who are intent on ignoring the biblical sentiment even though some or even all of them will tell us that they hold Christian values. But then so did the Crusaders who were basically a bunch of murdering, robbing swine who slaughtered all round them.
The 31st Rosa Luxemburg Conference took place last weekend with an attendance of 4,000 people. The conference organisers Junge Welt reported that “despite freezing temperatures and snow, the crowds in front of the Wilhelm Studios in Berlin’s Reinickendorf district were large.
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WHILE Europe, including Britain, reels from the obvious disdain with which Trump treats them, threatening Danish sovereignty even as they obsequiously avoid condemning his barbarous attack on Venezuela, we should note that the drums of war are still beating throughout Europe.
STATEMENT / HANDS OFF VENEZUELA 03/01/2026 The Irish Communist Party/Páirtí Cumannach Éireann forthrightly and unequivocally condemns the US attack on Venezuela and the abduction of the country’s president Nicolas Maduro, as well as the cynical killing of an as yet unknown number of Venezuelan victims in an indiscriminate bombing raid which included the targeting of …
THE 25th of November marks an international day of action against gender based violence and Belfast hosted a Reclaim the night march as it has done annually for the last 11 years. Each year at this rally participants endure abuse from men with the most horrendous comments about our appearance and our messages and this year was no different.