Is ecosocialism a fraud? It’s a harsh question, but it arises because the term ‘ecosocialist’ has been gathering momentum among the Communist and Trotskyist left for the past two decades and now there’s hardly a party on the left that doesn’t describe itself as ecosocialist. At the same time, none of these parties, to my […]
Support Disability Power March
Independent Left stands in full solidarity with DPI and disabled activists as we march to mark Disability Pride month’s campaign for basic rights, destigmatisation of disability and to celebrate being disabled and the positivity of the community. Disabled people are so often ignored pushed aside and their issues and campaigns are often argured for by […]
End Animal Farming: RTE’s Dairy’s Dirty Secret
Independent Left are proud to fully endorse the statement of the National Animal Rights Association after the showing on 10 July 2023 of Fran McNulty’s exposure of the terrible practices in Ireland’s dairy industry. It provides yet another case study of why we should end animal farming. The statement in full: After watching tonight’s RTE […]
Oppose A Deer Cull in Ireland
On 8 May 2023 a barrage of propaganda was put out by the government’s Deer Management Strategy Group in favour of a major cull of Ireland’s deer population. This highly contrived publicity campaign utilised the results of a survey that the group had carried out to generate their newsworthy content. Yet the survey was deeply […]
THE STRANGE REBIRTH OF STALINISM
If you were suddenly transported from the aftermath of the fall of ‘communism’ in the early 1990s to 2023, you would be in for a rude shock. Going from a situation where even old-style communist parties accepted that the undemocratic nature of the USSR and its satellites was problematic, you would find hordes of net-warriors […]