March 17, 2019 – Irish Broad Left

What ‘cherishing all the children of the nation equally’ means 100 years after the first Dáil

On March 17, 2019March 17, 2019 By emmaclancyoffshore

By Adam Murray. I had the pleasure recently of attending the People’s Dáil conference held on 26 January in Liberty Hall, Dublin, organised by the Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum. The event, bringing together socialists, republicans, and contributors from a broad range of parties and backgrounds, was a commemoration of […]

Antifa as a force for radical left unity in Ireland

On March 17, 2019March 17, 2019 By emmaclancyoffshore

By Jonathan Arlow. The Antifa can be understood as the popular term for all those radical left anti-fascists that are willing to use violence as a tactic to oppose the extreme right. As a movement it is generally viewed as a left-wing reaction to the threat posed by extreme right […]

National liberation, class and the fetishisation of armed struggle

On March 17, 2019March 22, 2019 By emmaclancyoffshore

By Alex Homits. It strikes me that Ireland has many movements which commemorate, glorify and fetishise armed struggle without truly grasping the conditions or consequences that accompany it. It is significant to note that there exists in the western world a large amount of leftists who parade their interest for […]