June 21, 2020 – Irish Broad Left

Labouring beside Lough Erne: a history beyond orange and green

On June 21, 2020August 11, 2020 By emmaclancyoffshore

By Séamas Mac Annaidh. This is a book review of Labouring Beside Lough Erne, a Study of the Fermanagh Labour Movement 1826-1932, by Jim Quinn. This is the first part of a projected three-part history of the labour movement in County Fermanagh from the early 19th century to the 1930s. […]

This is not a Green New Deal – it is greener business as usual

On June 21, 2020June 29, 2020 By emmaclancyoffshore

Growing Stronger Together by Sarah Bloom

Below is an open letter to Green Party members in the Midlands, North East, West and North West on the Programme for Government, published by four of the party’s young and rural General Election 2020 candidates, Tate Donnelly, Julie O’Donoghue, Seán McCabe and Saoirse McHugh, on 20 June. As candidates […]

Capitalism’s accumulation crisis prompts attacks on wages and organised labour

On June 21, 2020August 11, 2020 By emmaclancyoffshore

By Lisbeth Latham. The central driver of the capitalist system is the drive for capitalists to constantly increase profits – failure to do so can be a trigger for a crisis within the capitalist system. Since the end of the long boom in the early 1970s, capitalism, particularly in the […]

26 women a week forced to travel from Ireland to Britain for abortion care last year

On June 21, 2020August 11, 2020 By emmaclancyoffshore

Below Irish Broad Left publishes the joint statement from Alliance for Choice, Abortion Rights Campaign and Abortion Support Network, issued in response to the release of British Department of Health statistics reporting the number of women that travelled from Ireland to England or Wales to access an abortion in 2019. […]