Whose revolution is it anyway?

The revolutions and attempted revolutions that have swept the Arab world have demonstrated the power of ordinary people, but also the adaptability of imperialism, writes Ultán Gillen.
The western media have a clear, simple narrative of the events that have swept the Arab world. Oppressed people suddenly demanded access to westernstyle democracy, and have succeeded in [...]

Listening to Máirtín Ó Cadhain

The name of Máirtín Ó Cadhain is better known than his work and political activity. Here his biographer Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh discusses a writer and fighter worth listening to.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1905- 70) is someone many people have heard of, but usually only one aspect of him. People might speak of him as a leading [...]

Time to criminalise sectarianism

John Lowry
Sectarianism should be made a criminal offence in Northern Ireland and a summit involving all sectors of society held to draw up an action plan to combat the problem.
The Workers’ Party has written to the Office of First and Deputy First Minister to demand an early ‘Summit on Sectarianism’ and the immediate introduction of [...]

Bob Crow interview: No one likes us, we don’t care!

The Sun blockaded his home with a double-decker bus, Boris Johnson has described him as “demented” and the London Evening Standard called him the most hated man in London. He has earned a reputation as a fearless critic of New Labour, and a militant defender of strikes on London underground. Paul Dillon meets Bob Crow.
With [...]

The Trials of Citizen Garland

After over 50 years of involvement in political struggle Sean Garland faces one of his toughest fights.
Kevin Brannigan meets the man wanted by the US.
On the evening of the 7th October 2005 Sean Garland was sitting in a Belfast restaurant enjoying a meal with Workers’ Party colleagues prior to the start of the party’s Ard [...]

The EU’s “silent revolution”

Paul Murphy, Socialist Party Dublin MEP
What European Commission President Barroso has described as a “silent revolution” is underway in the European Union. A further diminution of democracy is being pushed through in order to facilitate the imposition of a permanent economic shock doctrine. Cutbacks, privatisation and downward pressure on wages will be institutionalised through the [...]

The Real Economy: The elephant off our coast

The southern state’s natural resources were systematically handed over to foreign multi-national corporations by a Fianna Fáil regime mired in corruption but the political class has no appetite to right this wrong writes Stewart Reddin.
The so called ‘’democratic revolution’’ as Enda Kenny described the outcome of the recent southern general election, has simply reaffirmed politics [...]

Citizens in the cradle

Mary Diskin outlines the case for wider state intervention in order to break a cycle of educational underachievement that has entrapped some working class communities.
The recent publication of ‘Educational disadvantage and the Protestant working class: A Call to Action’ is a much broader assessment of how poverty and inequality impact on educational achievement than its [...]

The toll road double tax scam

Hard pressed commuters are being forced to provide profits twice over to private companies when simply travelling to work writes Alan Myler.
While mortgage concerns continue to dominate the household budgets of many families, hard pressed workers in the commuter belts are equally concerned with the rising costs of transport. Many workers, who moved to Meath’s [...]

Banking on the illogical

The EU’s policies to overcome the Europe wide banking crisis seem beyond the understanding of all but the self-appointed economic elite. That is because, as Conor McCabe explains, they actually do not make sense.
It is often said that a definition of insanity is to do the same action over and over again, each time expecting [...]

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