As multiple war zones on the world map trace the urgent imperialist demand for escalation and violent intervention in economic and geopolitical arenas Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/revo... #imperialism #ireland #defeatism

On 17 March 1991, over 148 million Soviet citizens voted in a national referendum on whether to preserve the Soviet Union. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/from... #USSR #history

Mick O'Riordan - The Man We Knew www.eventbrite.ie/e/mick-orior... #ireland #communist

At the threshold of the imperialist era, when the Enlightenment’s promises gave way to war, repression, and new forms of domination, contradiction — the irreconcilable tension between hope and terror — became central to art. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/goya... #Goya #arthistory #art

In 2004, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, known as Frontex, was set up. It is tasked with aiding EU member states with border control, specifically in the Schengen area Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/fort... #EU #refugees #frontex

#Mayday statement

The anger and uprising of people is inevitable whenever reaction escalates. It is an example of the dialectical nature of social movements. The reaction of the imperialists will always produce an opposite movement. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/the-... #imperialism #ireland

Press headlines in Washington on Patrick’s Day 2026 were carrying the news that Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Centre, and once a staunch MAGA supporter, had resigned. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/sham... #ireland #US #imperialism

The Irish ruling class, its subservient media and academia, along with a well-funded global network of “think tanks” connected to the military-industrial complex, continue to subvert #neutrality and push ahead for the removal of the #TripleLock Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/neut...

Available data indicate that attacks in the West Bank are no longer merely a temporary escalation in the level of violence; rather, they have evolved into a systematic pattern Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/a-ge... #settlers #westbank

Since the turn of the century, China has been undergoing its own green industrial revolution. In 2023, China was responsible for the production of over 80% of the world’s solar panels Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/chin... #china #ecology

The escalating conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran is often presented as another regional crisis in the long history of Middle Eastern wars. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/the-... #imperialism #US

Latin America has been the laboratory to test neoliberalism. After the coup in Chile in 1973, the “Chicago Boys” trained by Milton Friedman implemented neoliberalism, resulting in disaster. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/04/cuba-a…#Cubab#USU#imperialisms#currentaffairsrs

James O’Toole’s recent article on “comprador theory” raises an important and serious political concern.He is right to insist that the Irish ruling class must not be portrayed as innocent intermediaries. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/depe... #compradorclass #economics #currentaffairs

The biggest threat to US unipolarity would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran an “antihegemonic” coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/the-... #imperialism #US #currentaffairs

CPI STATEMENT ON FUEL PROTEST #ireland #fuelprotest

The United States has entered what can fairly be described as a new Cold War with China. The language has changed, but the methods are familiar. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/the-... #china #US #currentaffairs

In 2019, James @nvmbertheory made the move from the great city of Cork, with a population of 224,000 people, to a megacity of 21 million, one of the most populous on earth. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/from... #Cork #RebelCounty #China #PeoplesRepublic

There may be a temptation on this side of the Irish Sea to regard as entertainment the recent scandals among the upper echelons of Britain’s ruling class Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/the-... #EpsteinFiles

Is international law progressive, reactionary or neutral? Before answering, one needs a Marxist understanding of law. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/is-i... #intenrationallaw #marxisttheory #icj

Cuba has transformed its electricity system in just 12 months, increasing solar power from 5.8 per cent to over 20 per cent of total generation as the country races to escape dependence on oil imports now blocked by US sanctions. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/cuba... #Cuba #Solar

Chris Cullen is standing in the Scottish Parliament elections on May 7th as a member of the Communist Party of Britain in the Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/why-... #CPB #elections #communism

Reformism and liberalism manifest themselves in all sorts of ways. They are so endemic that they have become part of the human psyche. They are a central part of protests and campaigning, no matter what the cause. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/refo... #nhs #healthcare #sixcounties

Politically and economically, Ireland has reconciled itself comfortably with imperialism and positioned itself as a conduit economy between peripheral and core, benefitting significantly from capital flows and FDI. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/he-m... #TradeUnion #KarlMarx

The attacks and machinations against Irish neutrality by the coalition government, arms companies, security think tanks and the military establishment continue to gather momentum. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/the-... #neutrality #ireland #EU #NATO

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is more than a Gothic tale; it is a politically charged meditation on science, ethics, and social responsibility. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/fran... #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #LordByron

Let us compare two intellectuals—one who understood Marx’s words and another who was a captive of a “pure socialism” which existed only in ideals.Michael Parenti passed away recently and Noam Chomsky fell from grace Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/mich... #inmemoriam #michaelparenti

It is not uncommon to hear dismissal of trade unions among leftists: too conservative, don’t mobilise enough, too eager to make deals with employers and so on. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/unio... #tradeunions #left

For almost two decades,Friends of the International Brigades Ireland(FIBI) gather in Spain to mark important dates in the history of Spanish anti-fascist struggle with other Spanish and international groups Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/89th... #battleofjarama #spanishrepublic #war

Once again, the spectre of another war haunts the Persian Gulf. The Biden—and now Trump—administration has orchestrated a massive military build-up in the region Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/impe... #iran #US #imperialism

When Central America’s military dictatorships faced a spiritual threat from liberation theology, they responded with a campaign of arrests and assassinations through the CIA’s Banzer Plan Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/03/enem... #Honduras #latinamerica #Tegucigalpa #JuanOrlandoHernández

The Danish establishment was happy with its subordinate relationship with the US and willing to allow the US to expand its military footprint and assert greater control over Arctic shipping lanes. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/why-... #Greenland #US

The novel is not only a landmark of revolutionary fiction but the culmination of his socialist thought and a foundational text of dystopian literature, emerging directly from the advent of imperialism. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/the-... #JackLondon #TheIronHeel

Highlighting an external threat allows Israel to intensify its activities in Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nablus under the banner of counter-terrorism. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/from... #Iran #Israel #Media

The political and economic space in which the Irish state operates is increasingly shaped by the growing inter-imperialist contradictions within the NATO/EU bloc, which is itself a manifestation of the general crisis of capitalism. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/iris... #neutrality

Events surrounding the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro on 3 January by the US continue to cause confusion and division on the Left worldwide as people try to understand what happened. Read more on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/the-ca… #Maduror#DelcyRodrigugu

Communsit party statement on #womansday

Société Générale was fined $1.34 billion for processing $5.5 billion in Cuba-related payments. ING bank was fined $619 million for Cuba wire transfers. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/the-... #Cuba #US #sanctions

The Monroe Doctrine (1823) established a US sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere, which considers Latin America as the backyard of the US and treats any interference there as an act of war. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/the-... #Venezuela #US #Imperialism

The growing clash between the European Union and the United States tells us something important about how capitalism works and why ordinary working people keep finding themselves exposed to shocks they did not create. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/geo-... #EU #US #currentaffairs

“Liberals are being radicalised”, claims Cameron Harrison. The People’s World journalist and trade union organiser arrived in Minneapolis on the eve of the Shutdown to support the Twin Cities Communist Party Club. Read in full on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/trum... #Minneapolis #ICE

Communsit party of Ireland statement on iran

Sean defined himself as a communist for most of his life, and Eileen shared his convictions. Their home was filled with modernist art, Van Gogh prints, Soviet cinema, the Jooss Ballet, and friends such as Harry Pollitt. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/shiv... #resistance #ireland

Right now, Venezuela and Palestine in the current “ceasefire” period serve as an unfortunate litmus test for the interrupted pipeline of anti-imperialist solidarity Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/the-... #charity #Solidarity

There is no rupture; NATO is not under threat. This is at least our third time going through this theatre of ‘Trump is so unreliable the special relationship is in danger’. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/the-... #NATO #EU #neutrality

With Donald Trump drawing so much attention to his outrageous demands and acts of international piracy, it is hardly surprising that, with notable exceptions, little attention is paid in Ireland to problems caused by the European Union. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/capi... #CPI #EU

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Instead of strength, what they encounter is a union that chooses weakness. It treats confrontation as an inconvenience and protection as optional. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/when... #workplace #union

The US-led imperialist bloc is far and away the leader in military power. 53.6% of global military spending is by the US alone; when including its NATO and other allies such as Japan, the figure is 74%. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/us-e... #Imperialism #usa