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50 years on- The real history of the Prague Spring
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring when the rule of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia and…
November 1918: When workers revolution ended war
By Kevin Henry “The old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” – It is sweet and…
October 1968 – Mass revolt against sectarianism & poverty
By Ciaran Mulholland In a few brief months in late 1968, a mass movement challenged the Unionist government…
“Bold, brave, undaunted”- The Life & Ideas of James Connolly
5 June 2018 will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of James Connolly. The following article was originally…
Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle: the working class & revolution
Two hundred years since Karl Marx was born and 170 years since his most famous work, The Communist…
100 years on: When working class power defeated conscription
April 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of a historic general strike in Ireland. Cillian Gillespie looks at…
Will the Agreement bring peace?- first published May 1998
The following article was first published in Socialism 2000, the precursor of Socialist Alternative, in the immediate aftermath of…
British state repression, the IRA’s armed campaign and the Labour Movement
Article written by Peter Hadden in 2008 Death on the rock of Gibraltar – 20 years since SAS…
1968- Year of revolution
By Cillian Gillespie It is fitting that 2018 opened up with the outbreak of revolts and upheavals in…
Review of “Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment”
By Yanis Varoufakis Published by Atlantic Books, 2017 Reviewed by Paul Murphy TD Adults In The Room…
