Divide and Conquer

When the Gardaí attack what they call “left wing extremists” by force or by word, they are not just attacking people; they are attacking a set of ideas that offer an alternative to the rotten neo-liberal ideology that the political establishment and the business elite have foisted on us for the last two decades.

Victory for Palestine at Belfast’s Anti-Racist World Cup

The fourth Anti-Racist World Cup (AWRC) took place in Belfast during June, attracting over 700 international guests and locals for a weekend of sport, debate and music, writes Bernard O’Reilly.
Festivities kicked off on Friday night, June 16, with interna¬tional guests enjoying a film and talk on Charles Donnelly, the Tyrone born poet and socialist who [...]

CIA – A Rogue Agency

After his election president Barack Obama promised to bring an end to his state’s international reputation for illegality and brutality but, as Desi O’Hagan reports, he is yet to bring into line an agency that believes itself to be beyond any law.
Since it was established as the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) [...]

LookLeft Winter 2010 issue in the shops NOW!

The selfish are currently in the ascendency, but if history has one constant lesson it is that change is
inevitable.

The Great Mortgage Swindle

A generation in the Republic has been left in hock to the banks by one of modern Ireland’s biggest cons. Conor McCabe explodes some of the myths that drove the property bubble.
There are those who will tell you that Irish people have a unique love-affair with property, that home-ownership is part of our DNA – [...]

Angie Murphy (1956-2010): Tireless Campaigner and Activist

Tom Crilly remembers Workers’ Party Ringsend stalwart Angie Murphy (née Whelan)
Life determined there was one major issue for Angie Murphy, ‘health’. Back in the 1980s the-then Health Minister, Barry Desmond T.D., included the closure of Dublin’s inner city hospitals in his plan for ‘a rationalization of the health services’. Angie condemned the Fine Gael / [...]

Michael Davitt and the Land League: An Irish Revolution

Michael Davitt (1846-1906) is one of the most important figures of modern Irish history. A member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (the Fenians) from the 1860s, Davitt went on to play a leading role in the Land War of the 1880s that helped break the power of the landlords in Ireland and eventually led [...]

Boycott: A Political Weapon Forged in Ireland

Donal Ó Fallúin outlines the origins of the boycott in Ireland’s Land War
When Captain Charles Boycott, a Mayo based land agent, came to Dublin to escape the community backlash against him in late 1880, he was refused permission to stay in a Dublin hotel by the proprietor. Previously, it had taken over a thousand men [...]

Increased Hopes for Freedom of ‘Miami Five’

Hope is growing that the Miami Five Cuban patriots will soon be released, writes Sarah Duffy.
Five Cubans — Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González — are serving lengthy sentences in different U.S. prisons after being arrested in 1998 and sentenced in 2001 for attempting to protect their home¬land from terrorist [...]

International Women’s Day A Century On

In the 100 years since the Socialist International established International Women’s Day the women’s movement has come a long way, but a long road remains to be travelled, according to Amanda Richards.
Within Ireland women have won key rights in their workplace and their homes; martial rape is now defined as a crime, and women can [...]

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