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Sinn Féin, PBP and the question of a left government in Ireland
By Eddie McCabe The following article was first published in issue #18 of Socialist Alternative, the theoretical magazine…
Socialists and a Sinn Féin Government
Sinn Féin could well lead the next Government in the South. This would be historic in Irish politics…
North: From ‘historic election’ to new crisis at Stormont
By Kevin Henry This year’s Assembly election was historic, with Sinn Féin emerging as the largest party, the…
‘War Against Bolshevism’: The Irish Civil War, 1922-23
This week marks 100 years since the outbreak of the Irish Civil War. The British prime minister threatened…
Northern Assembly elections: We need a socialist alternative to sectarian division
By Daniel Waldron THE OVERARCHING nature of the Assembly election on 5 May will, unfortunately, be deeply sectarian.…
Sinn Féin preparing for power in the South: Can it deliver real change?
For many months now support for Sinn Féin in the South has been elevated in opinion polls, reaching…
Mass movement takes on vulture funds in Berlin
By Robert Cosgrave On Sunday, 26 September – coinciding with Germany’s general election – 56.4% of Berliners (a figure…
40 years since the end of Hunger Strikes: How state repression could be fought
By Sean Burns The hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the events preceding them, was one of the many…
Sinn Féin refuse to oppose repressive legislation
By Mick Barry and Finghín Kelly The Offences Against the State Act was renewed by the Dáil on…
The rise and fall of Edwin Poots – and what it means for the ‘peace process’
Edwin Poots’s brief tenure as DUP leader has come to an abrupt and somewhat farcical end. The nature…
