By Carlo Sands.When mining giant Rio Tinto blew up two sacred Indigenous sites dating back 46,000 years in the Pilbara in Australia’s north-west earlier this year, it was with the consent of the state Labor government. It shows that while the Western Australian (WA) Labor Party sometimes pays formal respects […]
How to Get Rid of Christopher Columbus
A poem by Kevin Higgins. Don’t get photographed presenting yourtwo thousand names to the Mayor,looking as if you’re graduatingwith a qualification you’ll never use.Don’t ask the Church of Ireland or National Council for the Advancement of Concerned Peopleto intervene. Do it yourself.But not explosives, no.There’s always a mostly innocentretired car park […]
Labouring beside Lough Erne: a history beyond orange and green
‘A Worker’s Guide to Historical Capitalism’ – a political economy podcast
By IBL team. A new podcast series aims to provide an overall view of the historical development of the capitalist system – a ‘people’s history’ of the world. Trademark Belfast is the anti-sectarian unit of the Irish labour movement, which has carried out political education for trade unionists and workers […]
Neoliberalism is dead, long live neoliberalism!
Trotskyism today and Cold War hysterics
By Fergal Twomey. “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up […]
Trade unionists can bring class politics to debate about united Ireland
Her name is Jean: Court rules PSNI ‘lacks independence’ to investigate legacy murder
Áras Uí Chonghaile: Visitor centre honouring Connolly’s legacy to open on Falls Road
By Séanna Walsh. We are delighted to introduce and welcome Áras Uí Chonghaile to west Belfast. James Connolly, that giant of Irish political and socialist thinking, is coming home to the Falls Road. The visitor centre is testament to what can be delivered when ambition and vision collide with determination […]
What ‘cherishing all the children of the nation equally’ means 100 years after the first Dáil
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 […]