How the United States Inspired the Holocaust
Irish fascists specify who they’re racist against and who they aren’t on the basis of whiteness and religion. They draw their ideas from the same place Hitler drew his, the US.
Forward
No Revolution without Song
Working class communities in Dublin like Crumlin and Tallaght were underfunded and neglected from their inception, but the people themselves have now taken the lead in building a better future and like any revolution – music is at the heart of that.
Why study Labour in Irish History?
Labour in Irish History is considered one of Connolly’s central work. It arose out of a desire to crystallise 200 years of experience of class struggle. This series introduces and analyses a text which is still highly relevant today.
The Uneven Cert
Cold sweats, mental breakdowns and social isolation. The points race is an outdated concept based around a carefully designed high stress environment,, but the government’s COVID-19 plan is guaranteed to fail students on an unprecedented scale.
Why James Connolly was Executed
The crisis of 2020 can be a rupture in the status-quo of capitalism as much as the First World War and the 1916 Rising was. We must look at his contributions to applying Marxism to the Irish context, and his unique ability to recognise the political moment he was living in. For Connolly, Marxism was not an abstract theoretical position to be talked about in universities, nor a dogma to be appealed to as an authority. Marxism was simply a key to be used to unlock Irish History.
Opinion: The Red army “tore the guts out of” the Nazi war machine
The Second World War was not an imperialist war, as some Marxists still maintain. It was a people’s anti-fascist war. It was fought to defend the rights and freedoms the labour movement had sought for a century of more.
4 Reasons Capitalists Are Furious at Michael Moore’s New Film (& Why You Need To Watch It)
‘A gift to Big Oil’, claims Vox’s Leah C. Stokes. Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox had the film temporarily removed from sites with the help of a twitter mob. The creators “have done a grave disservice to us and the planet” cried Penn State climatologist, Michael E. Mann, who soon after compared Michael Moore to Donald Trump and Putin.
Liam Mellows Speeches in America
Liam Mellows, organiser, republican and revolutionary. He is remembered for is role as a Fianna Éireann organiser and for his rejection of the Treaty, occupation of the Four Courts and subsequent execution by the Free State. Excerpts of his speeches portray the true relationship between America and Ireland.
Ireland Has Seen Green-Opportunism From Eamon Ryan Before
Eamon Ryan has been leaking internal information to apply pressure to his fellow party members to go into coalition. Green Party councillors have supported Fianna Fáil candidates in local areas. Green Party councillors voted to privatise O’Devaney Gardens social housing.
Happy Birthday, Lenin!
One hundred and fifty years have passed since the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to the world as Lenin. Today, the Connolly Youth Movement celebrates the life of a revolutionary vanguard.