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Fascism seizes Ireland in the novel 'Prophet Song'

Bill Nevins — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:15:00 +1100

Bill Nevins revews Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel, set in a near-future Ireland, where fascists have come to power.

A personal history of modern Ireland

Bill Nevins — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:15:00 +1000

Bill Nevins reviews Fintan O’Toole's 2022 book, We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland.

Silky skills, shonky deals and powerful displays of solidarity

Leo Earle — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:15:00 +1000

With the hopes of a nation delicately balanced, the Matildas took on the Republic of Ireland, in front of a record crowd of 75,784, in their opening game of the Women’s World Cup. Leo Earle takes a look behind the tournament.

New history recounts capital’s original war against the poor

Simon Butler — Wed, 10 May 2023 11:45:00 +1000

Simon Butler reviews Ian Angus’s new book, The War Against the Commons, which vividly retells the story of how land that had been shared for centuries was privatised by force and deception in England, Wales and Scotland.

Irish-Australian activist arrested in Dublin while campaigning for Julian Assange

Kerry Smith — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +1000

Irish-Australian anti-war activist Ciaron O'Reilly was arrested outside Dublin Castle while attempting to deliver a giant prison key to United States president Joe Biden, reports Kerry Smith.

Biography combines ‘admiration and dread’ of Sinn Fein’s leader

Bill Nevins — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:15:00 +1100

Mary Lou McDonald, A Republican Riddle is no hagiography, nor is it a glib hatchet-job, writes Bill Nevins.

Vale John Molyneux 1948–2022

GEN Steering Committee — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:15:00 +1100

Global Ecosocialist Network coordinator John Molyneux died suddenly in Dublin in early December. Members of the GEN Steering Committee pay tribute.

Ireland: The fight to end US military use of Shannon Airport

Vijay Prashad — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:15:00 +1000

In the face of police persecution, activists have been fighting for years to end the US military’s use of Shannon Airport, writes Vijay Prashad.

Women and nature: Towards an ecosocialist feminism

Jess Spear — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:15:00 +1000

Wherever the forces of destruction attempt to cut down trees, pollute our air and water, and rip away the earth for minerals, women have been leading the resistance, writes Jess Spear.

Big Pharma and the search for a vaccine

Dave Murphy — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:00:00 +1100

In Ireland and across much of the advanced capitalist countries the political class has decided to put all its eggs into the basket of a COVID-19 vaccine, rather than elimination, writes Dave Murphy, heralding mega profits for the major pharmaceutical companies.

Greenwashing austerity in Ireland

Emma Clancy — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 14:00:00 +1000

Members of the Irish Green Party voted overwhelmingly to enter a coalition with the two traditionally dominant centre-right parties on June 26, thereby firmly cementing the Greens as a party of neoliberalism, writes Emma Clancy.

The oceans: past, present and future

Jess Spear — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:45:00 +1000

With sea level rise, superstorms, mega droughts, crop failure and mass species extinction, nature is forcing us to see what capitalism denies, the interconnectedness of all life on our ocean planet, writes Jess Spear. If we allow business-as-usual to continue, the impact on us will become greater and more severe.

Ireland: Political earthquake as Sinn Féin wins election

Duroyan Fertl — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:30:00 +1100

The seismic February 8 general election result, which saw Sinn Féin become the most popular political party in the 26-county Irish Republic for the first time, has shaken the Irish political system to its core and sent shockwaves across Europe, writes Duroyan Fertl.

The politics of ecosocialism

Susan Price — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:30:00 +1000

"For many of us, defining ourselves as ecosocialists is a way of distinguishing our socialism from such environmental blindness. We are not saying that Marx and Engels were infallible or that they offer all the answers we need today — we are saying that they offered insights and analysis that must be relearned by the left in the 21st century.

"Ecosocialists recognise the global environmental crisis as the most important problem that humanity faces in the 21st century. If socialists don’t recognise its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant," says Ian Angus, ecosocialist activist and editor of Climate and Capitalism.

Ireland: British collusion with loyalist paramilitaries not forgotten

Jake Gallagher — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:15:00 +1000

The single-most deadly terror attack on Irish soil took place on May 17, 1973. Four car bombs placed across the cities of Dublin and Monaghan and over the border into the Irish Free State exploded, killing 34 and injuring hundreds more. This attack, and many more like it, supposedly flew under the radar of British “Security Forces” sent to the north of Ireland to deal with paramilitarism. However, it flew under the radar, not by chance, but by design.

Ireland: New secure-hour law is a gamechanger in the fight against low pay and poverty

David Gibney — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:45:00 +1000

Thanks to a five-year-long campaign by unions, including Mandate union, workers in Ireland won an important victory this year when legislation was adopted that bans zero-hour contracts and guarantees minimum wage payments for trainees.

Ireland: Women’s unpaid labour a key site of struggle for the trade union movement

Amy Ward — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:30:00 +1100

Following the victory in the campaign to repeal Ireland’s anti abortion laws, Ireland has entered a new historic moment ripe with possibilities for profound change, writes Amy Ward.

Ireland: Brexit and DUP’s opposition to rights put unity referendum firmly on the agenda

Rachel Coyle — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:45:00 +1100

While the political establishment in Ireland is determined to downplay the need for an Irish unity referendum, it is plainly obvious that the appetite for such a poll is growing by the day.

Sinn Fein: Good Friday peace deal may not survive

Kerry Smith — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:45:00 +1100

The 1998 Good Friday peace agreement to end the conflict in Northern Ireland could become unsalvageable, Irish republican party Sinn Fein has said, as Brexit and other unresolved issues continue to shutter the institutions set up under the agreement, Irish Republican News

May says hard Brexit could lead to united Ireland, break up of Britain

Kathy Fairfax — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:30:00 +1100

Britain’s departure from the European Union without a deal would make a united Ireland and the break-up of Britain more likely, British Prime Minister Theresa May told MPs ahead of a January 15 vote on her government’s Withdrawal Agreement that it has negotiated with the European Union. May dramatically lost the vote by 432-202.

It is the first time May has admitted British rule in Ireland and Scotland could be jeopardised by Brexit.

Thanks to Brexit, the Irish border is coming again

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In Northern Ireland, made up of the six Irish counties still claimed by Britain, a majority voted to remain in the European Union in Britain’s 2016 referendum. But “Brexit” is threatening to take it out of the EU regardless — threatening progress in a statelet historically wracked by discrimination, inequality and violence.

Brexit is a threat to Northern Ireland in several ways. Key aspects of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which formally ended decades of armed conflict, underpinned by European law and funds.

Football against imperialism: What Celtic FC's solidarity with Palestine can teach the world

Michael Blosser — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:45:00 +1000

As the 2018 World Cup frenzy starts to take over the news cycle, it is crucial to highlight examples of how the sport has brought people together. Michael Blosser writes that one example is the case of Celtic FC and Palestine, with the Glasgow-based club showing consistent solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.

Ireland: Celebrations as vote overturns abortion ban

Kamala Emanuel — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:30:00 +1000

As the results of the Irish abortion referendum were announced on May 26, registering a big win for repealing a constitutional ban on abortion, scenes of celebration were shared around the world, writes Kamala Emanuel.

Ireland's historic vote sparks pressure for change in the north

Steve Sweeney — Tue, 29 May 2018 11:00:00 +1000

Ireland's historic abortion vote has fuelled calls for reform in the island's North, with Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald saying it was time for the six counties to adopt the same legislation. The six counties that make up the Northern Ireland statelet are still controlled by Britain, although British laws governing abortion does not apply and abortion remains illegal.

Landslide vote for women's right to choose in Ireland

Stuart Munckton — Sun, 27 May 2018 17:15:00 +1000

Ireland, one of Europe's most socially conservative countries, has voted by a landslide to liberalise the world's most restrictive abortion laws, Common Dreams noted.

The women of Kurdistan stand in solidarity with the women of Ireland – and call for a Yes vote to Repeal the 8th

Rosa Gilbert — Fri, 25 May 2018 14:15:00 +1000

As Ireland prepares for its referendum today, May 25, on repealing the constitutional amendment prohibiting free, safe, legal abortion, women and health workers in Rojava, the largely Kurdish area in Syria's north, have expressed their solidarity with Irish women’s right to choose.

With the exception of the Vatican state and Malta, Ireland has the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. It exceeds Saudi Arabia and Qatar in its restrictions on women’s rights to basic reproductive health.

Ireland: Momentum for change grows ahead of abortion vote

Kamala Emanuel — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:45:00 +1000

Campaigning for a woman right’s to choose in Ireland has stepped up since the announcement of the date and wording of a referendum on changing the constitution to allow abortion.

The referendum, to be held on May 25, will ask voters whether to repeal the section of the Irish constitution that bans abortion. If passed, it would allow parliament to make laws to regulate the procedure.

Ireland: Free Tony Taylor — held for two years without charge

Free Tony Taylor Campaign Team — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:00:00 +1100

Derry community activist Tony Taylor has been held in jail for more than two years without charge or trial on the orders of a British official, write the Free Tony Taylor Campaign Team.

Ireland: Parliament votes to ban fossil fuel exploration

Kerry Smith — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:45:00 +1100

Ireland’s Dail Eireann (its lower house of parliament) voted by a large majority on February 8 in favour of a bill to ban the government issuing new contracts for oil and gas exploration.

'It's time for a new, democratic, inclusive, equal and united Ireland,' campaigners say in new video

Stuart Munckton — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:30:00 +1100

The new #UnitedIreland campaign has released the video below, narrated by actor Irish actor John Connors. The video says it is time to build a new, democratic, inclusive and United Ireland.

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