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Features by Conor Kostick Independent Left

Features by Conor Kostick Independent Left

About Conor Kostick

Conor Kostick is a socialist and member of Independent Left. He is the author of 'Revolution in Ireland'.

The Kilmichael Ambush

October 15, 2020 By Conor Kostick 13 Comments

A burned out lorry after the Kilmichael Ambush

The Kilmichael Ambush took place on 28 November 1920, when Tom Barry, Commandant of the Third West Cork Flying Column, led his Irish Republican Army unit into battle against two lorries, each carrying ‘Auxiliaries’, veteran soldiers especially recruited to support the police and organise reprisals against the Irish national movement. The ambush was a major […]

Filed Under: Irish Socialist History

What can Irish anarchists offer Revolutionaries?

August 14, 2020 By Conor Kostick 2 Comments

Irish socialists Independent Left discuss revolution with Irish anarchists

Conor Kostick of Independent Left, former member of the SWP, and Kevin Doyle, a long time anarchist, former member of the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM), in conversation about the question of how socialists and revolutionaries in Ireland – and beyond – should organise in order to be effective. And how Irish anarchists can contribute to […]

Filed Under: Irish Political Parties

Black Lives Matter: a view from the streets for Irish socialists

June 4, 2020 By Conor Kostick 1 Comment

I can't breath Black Lives Matter logo

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 socialists 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 […]

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Reading Lenin in the light of the collapse of the SWP and the ISO

April 22, 2020 By Conor Kostick 3 Comments

Lenin stroking a cat

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 […]

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There are two worlds

April 11, 2020 By Conor Kostick 2 Comments

A road leading from light to dark forest

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 […]

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