The Irish Communist Party (ICP) rejects the argument from racist agitators that immigrants are the cause of society’s problems. It is ironic that pseudo ‘patriots’ from the South and Loyalist extremists in the North – with the murky figures of ‘intelligence’ handlers hovering in the background can unite in diverting attention away from the real culprits. For, …
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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 …
Writes Eoin O’Murchu US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s determination to reorientate trade and commercial relations between the US and the rest of the world, particularly Europe, has sent shock waves through the economic and political establishments North and South. In the South, the smug certainty that reliance on foreign direct in- vestment (FDI) was the bedrock …
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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 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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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 …
Adam Murray writes on the struggle against censorship as pro-Palestinian voices grow louder and harder to silence.
Adam Murray, 23rd June 2023 THERE has been much anger expressed recently towards President Michael D. Higgin’s by Irish government ministers, particularly by Tánaiste Micheál Martin, in relation to the government’s so-called public forum on Irish foreign, defence and security policy taking place this week. President Higgins offered the view that opening a debate at …