What is Socialism?

By Eddie McCabe The slogan ‘Billionaires Should Not Exist’ has become popular in recent years, and it’s one that all socialists would subscribe to. It helps that so many of these ulta-wealthy individuals more and more resemble cartoonish evil villains, but the

By Eddie McCabe The far-right mantra that ‘Ireland is full’ is a sinister and stupid lie. In Ireland, we can easily prove this because this is the only country in the world with a smaller population than it had 200 years ago.

By Eddie McCabe If ever you debate the merits of socialism versus capitalism, it will only be a short while before you encounter some variation of the argument “But socialism leads inevitably to dictatorship”. Such is the enduring legacy of Stalinism –

By Conor Payne These facts starkly illustrate the devastation wrought by capitalist ecocide on our planet and its animal life. Climate change, pollution, overfishing and the destruction of habitats to convert the land for agricultural and other uses are all driving a

By James McCabe Capitalism constantly bombards us with its self-serving ideology, including the idea that the system relies on and encourages innovation, such as inventing new products that improve our lives. We’re told that the grinding slog we experience as workers is

By Conor Payne As Karl Marx wrote: “Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and

By Eddie McCabe In part 1 of this article we explained how the working class, in its resistance to capitalist exploitation, oppression and destruction, will form many kinds of organisations. These can at different times and in varying ways contribute to the

By Eddie McCabe James Connolly once wrote that “successful revolutions are not the product of our brains but of ripe material conditions.” What he meant was that socialists can’t just make a revolution because they want to. No matter how many socialists