Dublin Opinion

Even though you know what happens is what is going to happen, it’s still funny.

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We’re young people like you. We do things you do. Some of us are at work, some at school, and some at university and college. We come from all classes, backgrounds, races and religions - or none at all. We are as varied as any group can be; in fact we’ve only got one thing […]

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Dayschool on Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative
Saturday November 7th, 10am – 4pm
Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin
Hosted by the Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite
Sessions:
10am – 10.30am – introduction
10.30am – 12pm – Latin America’s New Left
Speaker: Jose Antonio Gutierrez (Chilean left activist)
Many on the international Left have looked to Latin America with hope in the last […]

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I don’t know if Sean Baite will be able to see this down there in the back end of France, but Handj*b films, with the compressing skills of Colm Talbot, have a shockingly large number of vids (okay 9) of Nick Cave’s recent visit to Vicar Street to promote his novel The Death of Bunny […]

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I was going through some copies of Red Mole from 1972 today, the newspaper of the International Marxist Group, (edited by Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, Quintin Hoare), when I came across an article by Gery Lawless. However, what really caught my eye was the tiny newsbox below the article. Have a look for yourself.
First, the […]

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[This is a guest post by Sam from the UCD Hidden History Blog.]
I am trying to research the lives of two British born socialists who fought and died in the 1916 Easter Rising.
I’m wondering if any readers here can help me and/or forward on this appeal to anyone they think might.
The first is John Neale […]

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I have The Wire on play pretty much all the time these days. I get to the end of season five, I go back to season one. I’ll watch two or three episodes a night, more if I’m travelling. I’ll put a season on the laptop and watch it on the train. If it’s by […]

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Okay, I don’t have any particular insight into the current situation, what with John O’Donoghue resigning, and the Green’s saying they wouldn’t have supported him anyway, and the special Green Party convention on Saturday which is supposed to signal whether or not they will stay in Government following an unsatisfactory outcome of the negotiations for […]

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YES vote will have grave consequences for Ireland and Europe
People Before Profit Alliance
Councillor Richard Boyd Barrett said “The people have voted and we accept the outcome. We have had neither an honest or democratic debate on the treaty and its grave consequences for the people of Europe and Ireland. We saw an unprecedented mobilisation of […]

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Lisbon vote is victory for the powerful
Padraig Mannion, Anti-Lisbon Treaty campaign director of the Workers Party has declared that the result of the rerun of the Lisbon Treaty referendum is “a victory of the powerful over the people”.
“The Yes side” stated Padraig Mannion “never accepted the democratic decision of the Irish people as delivered on […]

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