An interview with Paige Graffunder, Seattle 3 June 2020 Paige Graffunder is an activist in Seattle, involved with Revolution Books and Black Lives Matter Seattle. For the benefit of us in Ireland, where many of us see events through official news channels, which never drill down enough, I’m hoping you can give our readers some […]
Reading Lenin in the light of the collapse of the SWP and the ISO
A comparison of Tony Cliff’s Lenin: Building the Party with Paul Le Blanc’s Lenin and the Revolutionary Party In 2013, not long after the British SWP went into dramatic convulsions over the way their party failed to support a young member in her allegation that a very much older and more senior member had raped […]
There are two worlds
There are two worlds. In one, people try to occupy themselves at home, maybe spend time in the garden where the birds are so lively just now, or watch TV or – although I found my concentration levels weren’t up to it – do something creative. The other is darker and consists of those with […]
The Connaught Rangers’ Mutiny of 1920
One of the most extraordinary acts of defiance against the British Empire took place in India on 28 June 1920 when four Irish soldiers, members of the British army, thousands of miles from home, decided to protest against the suppression of the independence movement in Ireland. The soldiers belonged to the Connaught Rangers and were […]
Coronavirus in Ireland: challenging misinformation and offering solutions
The spread of a new coronavirus – 2019-nCoV – has to be of concern to everyone. Efforts to keep the virus out of Ireland have failed and any attempt to shrug off the dangers posed by the situation by saying, for example, that many more people will die of the flu this year, are seriously […]