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 […]
Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity
Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity is a book edited by Fred Leplat and Chris Ford, published by Resistance Books and Ukraine Solidarity campaign. It contains essays by Mick Antoniw, Welsh Labour MP; John-Paul Himka, history professor; Taras Bilous, activist for Sotsialnyi Rukh / Social Movement; Yuliya Yurchenko activist for Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and Sotsialnyi […]
Northside Community Forum Against Racism
Statement by Councillor John Lyons in support of the Northside Community Forum Over recent weeks there have been protests in the area targeting people seeking refuge in Ireland. It has been sad to see and the consequences can be traumatic for those directly targeted and can further disadvantage all our efforts to fight for a […]
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 […]
End Sex Trafficking
One of the grimmest, darkest aspects of the capitalist society we live in is the kidnapping and enslavement of people, especially women, who are exploited sexually. To end sex trafficking is an urgent task. The scale of the problem is massive and worldwide. The statistics on sex trafficking are hard to gather, given the challenge […]