Building the Left

Mick Finnegan, Workers Party President -
We are at a moment of real opportunity for the left. We know that the people are angry; we know that they are looking for change. We know that people want an alternative. We also know, however, that the institutions that serve capitalism – the political establishment and the media [...]

White noise, bleak hope: Irish media in the crisis

Gavan Titley takes a look at the grim reality of the southern media’s approach to the crisis but also sees cause for hope that their spell may be broken.
It would be strange, the 18th century philosopher Georg Lichtenberg remarked, if all that was worth knowing in science was discovered in Prussia. Yet ‘reality’ is fully [...]

Special Branch attention turned on student activists

By Kevin Brannigan
A young Dublin based student had his trip from his parents’ home to college interrupted recently when he found himself in the back of a Special Branch car being whizzed off to spend a day answering questions in a south Dublin Garda station holding cell.
The first year student (who wishes to remain anonymous) [...]