The British government goes to extraordinary lengths to disguise its often blood-soaked misbehaviour. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/brit... #ireland #britain #History

As we approach our 27th National Congress, it is worth taking a moment to reflect on the nature and role of communist parties. Communist Parties were founded on the principles of scientific socialism Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/beyo... #communism #ireland

Leila Majaj Kirkconnell’s novel Under the Same Sky is a profound act of witnessing. It transforms an immense geopolitical catastrophe into an intimate, sensory, fully human experience. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/book... #bookreview #leilakirkconnell #palestine

Anyone with an ounce of humanity has been focused, angered, and motivated by the horrific genocide in Palestine. The old saying springs to mind: ‘For those who know, no explanation is necessary. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/from... #ireland #communism #solidarity

At the end of December 2025, the Irish state signed off on a new fisheries agreement with the EU Fisheries Council. It will result in an estimated €94 million in losses for the Irish fishing industry in 2026. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/once-a…#irelandn#fishingn#EUEU

What the FT celebrates as a profitable year is a story about asset prices not workers’ livelihoods. Rising stock valuations and gold prices are distributional dynamics within capital not expansions of social wealth... Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/2025... #capitalism #usa

In the 25th chapter of Das Kapital, “The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation,” Marx states: “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery …at the opposite pole.” Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/capi... #capitalism #marx

US strategists underestimated the resilience of a socialist system under the stewardship of the Communist Party of China. They assumed market reforms would dissolve socialist control and permanently integrate China into a US-led order Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/the-... #US #China

Allianz invests in Israeli banks that fund illegal settlements and provides insurance for infrastructure built on stolen Palestinian land. It is a financier and enabler of the Zionist genocide. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/the-... #GAA #Ireland #Palestine

we beg to differ with Mr Starr and point out that war is actually good for something, usually profits, power, markets, resources and control. There is usually a solid material basis for wars.. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/01/war-... #war #history #capitalism

In the dark days of December, the Irish ruling class through their government, not once, not twice but three times displayed their contempt for the concept of democracy and political and economic sovereignty. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2026/01/the-... #ireland #neutrality #EU

The military and sanctions strategy against Venezuela, developed by U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, is as cynical as it is dangerous. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/the-... #imperialism #Venezuala #US

For another year, the COP (Conference of the Parties) climate summit has proven to be an exercise in the most cynical of language games. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/savi... #COP30 #climate

Liadán Ní Chuinn’s stunning short story collection is a courageous, unflinching diagnosis of an open wound. That wound is the legacy of the conflict in the British-occupied Six Counties. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/book... #trauma #northofireland

The Beijing forum was entitled ‘At the Crossroads of World History: The Choice of All Nations’ and the Hangzhou forum was about ‘The Chinese Path to Modernisation and A New Model for Human Progress.’ Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/repo... #conference #china

The olive harvest in Palestine is more than an agricultural event; it is a centuries-old national ritual, a living testament to the deep, material connection between the Palestinian people and their land. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/isra... #olivetree #palestine

Tommrow for #venezuela

Across the nation,and particularly among the younger generations,a quiet but determined reconquest is underway. It is not,for now,an overtly revolutionary one,but currently manifests asa cultural and linguistic revival. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/athg... #Language #irish #gaeilge

The familiar dual economy persists: a highly productive, footloose enclave of multinational capital accumulation sits alongside a structurally anaemic domestic sector. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/two-... #economy #northofireland

The names of the Manchester Martyrs endure because the cause they stood for—national liberation and social revolution—cannot be silenced, imprisoned, or killed. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/spee... #workingclass #manchester #robertemmet1916society

at India’s southern tip,Kerala a state of 36 million people has provided a third way:a left alternative that serves as an inspiration for all societies striving to guarantee basic human needs like food, housing,and healthcare. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/the-... #kerala #communism

As I write, over sixty-five thousand people have been slaughtered in Palestine. People are protesting who, two years ago, could never have imagined themselves taking to the streets. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/lett... #War #climate #lettertotheeditor

From the Bog to the Cloud is the bestselling book Ireland needs—a rigorous analysis of the nation’s place in the world and a strategic guide for how to change it through principled, anti-imperialist struggle. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/book... #ireland #bookreview #imperialism

Trump remains as unpredictable as ever and never more so than with his latest pronouncement on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.Just when Europe’s leading advocates of endless war were anticipating increased US participation Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/trum... #Trump #ukraine

Let us be clear: there is no ceasefire in Gaza or Palestine. The reality is that despite a genocidal campaign, the Zionist military and its imperialist backers have failed to militarily defeat the guerrilla resistance Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/the-... #palestine #imperialism #left

A new fashion dominates polite progressive politics: denouncing the billionaire. The political and media establishment now routinely laments rising inequality, yet their critique never dares to name the system that produces it. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/taxi... #billionaire #tax

Across the hills between Nablus, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Hebron, extremist settler groups have grown into organized violent formations that intimidate Palestinians on a daily basis. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/the-... #Palestine #zionism #colonialism

Trade union density in the 26 Counties stands at a stark 22%, with collective bargaining coverage at around 34%. This is a catastrophic decline from the peak of approximately 60% density in the 1980s. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/what... #union #workers

The Break the Academic Chains of Zionism (BACZ) encampment at University College Dublin (UCD) is now the longest-running university encampment in Ireland. It has done more than expose the complicity of Irish academia Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/12/brea... #UCD #LEFT #Zionism

Connolly captured the mood of the people with her message of a new, a different “Republic”. She presented a positive vision of a different Ireland, an Ireland of equality, of justice and a united sovereign Ireland Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/pres... #catherine #left #currentaffairs

More than half a century ago, on 9 October 1967, the rifle of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara fell silent in the Bolivian mountains. Yet the echo of his words has remained alive .. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/che-... #palestine #resistance #cheguavara

The German auto industry is burning out. Next Wednesday, the production lines at Volkswagen will stand idle. According to information from Bild, production of the VW Golf at the Wolfsburg plant will be suspended. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/peop... #Germany #vw #Nexperia

Shannon Airport has long been used by the U.S. military as a stopover for its wars abroad. A thin veneer of neutrality is maintained—a fig leaf to cover Ireland’s complicity in imperialist wars and genocide. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/peac... #triplelock #neutrality #ireland

In a desperate attempt to stave off the inevitable and reinforce the rule of capitalism, Donald Trump is thrashing around, seeking measures to halt the advance of history. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/euro... #china #EU #socialism

The police assault on Kitty O’Brien, an Irish activist attending a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin, It was another reminder of the repression and violence the German state employs against Palestine solidarity. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/germ... #germany #militairisation

We later came to learn of their experience in the hands of the Zionists. They are mocked, humiliated, and strip-searched. Older comrades are refused essential medication. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/harv... #palestine #colonialism #currentaffairs

The Guardian recently reported that International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva admitted the rapid rise of non-bank lending “keeps me awake every so often at night” Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/imf-fe…#imfm#capitalisms#CurrentAffairsrs

Over 1,000 delegates attended this Blueshirt convention: ranchers, big farmers, but with finance-capital’s avowed representatives in the background and the convention packed mainly by O’Duffy’s uniformed storm troops. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/from... #irish #fascism #blueshirts

The words attributed to Marie Antoinette, “let them eat cake,” to people who had no bread are said to have pushed the people to the French Revolution. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/mono... #poverty #currentaffairs #capitalism

Hardly a week passes without a new attack upon the neutrality of this state—a policy supported by the majority of the people of Ireland. It is not just an attack upon neutrality, but against the Irish people themselves Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/the-... #nato #ireland #neutrality

Many working families will face very difficult choices this coming winter regarding putting food on the table or heating their homes. The unit rates for electricity,as well as the standing charges,will each increase by 9.5%. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/cost-o…#costoflivingn#winterer

Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev, was the site of one of the most horrific massacres of the fascist genocide. On 29–30 September 1941, the SS Einsatzgruppe C murdered nearly 34,000 Jewish civilians. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/shos... #13thsymphony #soviet #leningraders

This is the central strategic lesson of Marxism: that the working class cannot simply react to crises, nor rely on spontaneous resistance. It must organise politically. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/the-... #communistparty #democraticplanning #marxism

Communist Party of Ireland Statement on the resignation of Paschal O'Donoghue 18/11/2025

When intimidation did not break us, UCD escalated. In the early hours of the morning, more than 20 men descended on the encampment. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/ucds... #UCD #Gardaí #gaza

Fun fact: Guinness, the quintessential Irish drink exported worldwide, originated in the working-class pubs of early 18th-century London. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/arth... #arthurguinness #dublin #irishhistory

Last month,the Irish and British governments launched their joint Legacy Framework proposals. The stated aim is to provide families of Troubles-related dead with, “… a fair, proportionate, and transparent system to seek answers.” Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/lega... #northofireland #troubles

Leaving Ireland to be with the communist parties of the world in Beirut brought mixed feelings of huge pride and not a little trepidation. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/inte... #beirut #gaza #irishcommunist

"The Hague isn't good enough for you" We will never forgive. We will never forget. Shame on the EU

In recent weeks, the United States has sharply escalated its attempts to throttle the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Read on socialistvoice.ie/2025/10/us-e... #venezuela #imperialism #currentaffairs