Gareth Murray sits down with Breandán Mac Cionnaith, a Portadown based Éirígí activist and former spokesperson for the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition. Breandán was instrumental in putting a stop to Orange Order marches going through his area in the mid-1990s.
On Saturday the 5th of July, the Republican Bloc marched with thousands of others at the National Housing Demonstration, which was organised by the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU). Éirígí activists and members of the 1916 Societies marched behind a joint Universal Public Housing banner, whilst carrying dozens of tricolours.
Mickey Moran sits down with broadcaster and director, Kevin Brannigan, who's two-part documentary on NORAID airs on RTÉ in the next few days. The documentary titled 'NORAID: Irish America And The IRA', tells the inspiring story of US support for the republican struggle in Ireland, contains some fascinating archival footage, and includes interviews with people who were involved at the time.
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Miriam Daly, we republish ‘Women in Ulster’, a lecture Daly delivered while on a speaking tour of the United States during March and April 1979.
Given the disturbances in Ballymena on both Monday and Tuesday nights (9th & 10th June), it should come as no surprise that the far-right and their followers in various parts of the Six Counties
Mickey Moran sits down with Joe Mooney, an anti-racist, community activist based in East Wall, Dublin - ground zero of the emergent anti-migrant movement.
Cathal Crowe isn’t usually a high-profile politician, but he made plenty of media headlines for himself earlier this week with a bizarre claim about the British Army.
In this month’s Connolly Archive, we continue on with our serialisation of Connolly’s Labour in Irish History, moving on to the final chapter, ‘The Working Class: The inheritors of the Irish ideals of the past - The repository of the hopes of the future.’
Saturday, May 19th saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Dublin to join the ‘National Demonstration for Palestine’. The massive march and rally was organised by the Irish Palestine Solidarity
Mickey Moran sits down with Kryštof, Jason and Ben from The Regrettable Century Podcast to discuss the political situation in the United States, what led to Trump’s victory in last year's US presidential election, the state of the US left, and the prospects for a working class fightback.
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 39th anniversary of the death of Irish socialist republican Peadar O’Donnell, we republish ‘For or against the Ranchers? Irish working farmers in the Economic War’, a piece which O’Donnell wrote in 1932.
In this month’s Connolly Archive, we continue on with our serialisation of Connolly’s Labour in Irish History, moving on to Chapter Fifteen, ‘Some more Irish pioneers of the socialist movement’.
