Water privatisation: Irish government on the back foot

by Eugene McCartan writing in Socialist Voice The success of the broadly based Right2Water campaign and the community groups that Continue reading →

International Conference of Communist and Workers Parties: Ireland

Speech by Seán Edwards: National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland It is very significant that this conference is taking place Continue reading →

October 2014 SOCIALIST VOICE is now out

Contents include Socialism: a historical necessity [Nicola Lawlor] Water is a human right [Kathleen Lynch] Water charge revolutionaries [Eoin McDonnell] Continue reading →

National in form, imperial in content

It has become commonplace, in these last hours, for the great and good to praise the the Scottish referendum campaign, Continue reading →

CPI: Rearranging the chairs on the Labour ship Titanic

The Communist Party of Ireland, commenting on the Government reshuffle, said that it was more akin to a rearranging of Continue reading →

Ireland… A changed, and changing, political landscape

The Irish election results have produced a changed and changing political landscape. There was a solid rejection of “austerity” by Continue reading →

Not a shared sacrifice but a bloody slaughter

James Connolly Memorial Lecture, 2014 THE INTER-IMPERIALIST WAR, 1914-18 Not a shared sacrifice but a bloody slaughter Speaker DANIEL BRATANOVIC Continue reading →

Enda Kenny described as a ‘Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie’

From the April 2014 Socialist Voice published in Dublin with apologies to Robbie Burns ENDA KENNY has lost control of Continue reading →