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Review: We Only Want the Earth: The Life & Ideas of James Connolly, directed by Alan Gilsenan

By Chris Stewart There is perhaps no figure in Irish history whose legacy is more distorted than James Connolly. Time and again, pro-capitalist politicians invoke his name as a nationalist hero of 1916, while taking great pains to gut his memory of

Sep 2, 2026

Greece: Subordination to Troika or rupture with austerity?

Statement by Xekinima, sister organisation of the Socialist Party in Greece The Greek picture is becoming clearer and clearer. We are now in May, the fourth month of the new SYRIZA-led government’s term, and the result of the so-called “negotiations” with the Troika

May 18, 2015

Vote Yes to Marriage Equality!

The Radical Yes Campaign: Fighting for full equality & against discrimination

Apr 26, 2015

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Water charges battle

The battle against water charges & building a new left movement

How can a new voice for the working class be built.

Apr 20, 2015

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·What is Socialism?

Why we need a left government

By Laura Fitzgerald Austerity is a one-sided class war. The politicians hand in hand with the major employers have waged a war on the pay, conditions and living standards of the broad working class through swingeing cuts to public sector pay and

Apr 20, 2015

Featured Articles·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

May Day: Why the red flag of socialism

Why we need working class unity

Apr 19, 2015

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Water charges battle

Water charges: Why non-payment is essential

By Kevin McLoughlin “If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.” It is meaningless to oppose to the water charges, but then to pay them. Your “protest” will be ignored and the government will have successfully robbed

Apr 18, 2015

Featured Articles·Joe Higgins column·News & Analysis·Special Features·Water charges battle

Profiteering from an essential element of life

By Joe Higgins TD Put the words “profiting from Water” into any internet search engine and hundreds of sites immediately present themselves. Business media like Bloomberg and Forbes and countless “investment analysts” purport to advise the reader on how the most essential

Apr 16, 2015

Economy·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Statistical veneer of recovery covers reality of stagnation

The article was originally written in the middle of February 2015 as part of the pre-conference discussion of the Socialist Party. It has been slightly altered for publication. By Paul Murphy TD If the reports of the demise of Mark Twain had

Apr 16, 2015

Poisonous bigotry must be challenged

Vote yes to Marriage Equality in May!

Mar 12, 2015

Joe Higgins on SIPTU’s support for Sinn Fein

During the last seven years of austerity, the Irish Congress of Trades Unions (ICTU) and its biggest component, Siptu, capitulated utterly in front of the diktats of the financial markets as imposed by the Troika resulting in working class people being forced

Mar 9, 2015

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