Socialist Voice 

The July issue of Socialist Voice is now available online: https://socialistvoice.ie/category/article/latest/

 

Contents:

Sporting Solidarity: The Campaigns to Break Ireland’s Links with Israeli Genocide Gearóid Ó Machail

Two grassroots protest campaigns are currently challenging the deep complicity of Irish sporting institutions in normalising the Israeli state’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. The Allianz Amach or Drop Allianz campaign, rooted in Cumann Luthchleas Gael (GAA), and the Stop The Game campaign, targeting the Football Association of Ireland, represent vital and courageous […]

DÁTHEANGACH NÓ DÁ THEACH? by Caoimhe Quinn

There are now over two thousand entire homes available for short-term rental sa Ghaeltacht, in the very same areas where the Irish language is so threatened and supposed to be protected. And as the likes of Airbnb grow year on year — with an increase of 88% in the number of […]

Global Shifts, Local Struggles by Niall Cullinane

As we move into the summer, developments demonstrate continuing instability and geopolitical reorganisation of global capitalism. Throughout May and June, inflation remained stubbornly above target. As the business press reports, capitalists are no longer assuming an automatic return to the ultra-low-inflation world that characterised the 2010s; access to cheap capital […]

Belfast Pogroms: Sadly Not New, But Few Called It Out  by Nicola Lawlor

Rioting, violence, racist attacks, attacks on homes, forcing people out of communities, thuggery, attacks on workers took place over a few nights from 9 June, largely concentrated in Belfast and in loyalist-dominated areas. Thanks to decent people, across all communities, and organised opposition, it did not spread much or last […]

A Full-court Press of Political Lobbying by Business  by Nicola Lawlor

We are witnessing a full-court press of business lobbying against workers’ rights – specifically, for the focus of this article, but against so-called ‘gold-plated’ regulations more generally. Pay Transparency is meant to be legislated for and in place from June by the Government in Dublin. However, they have now said […]

Dublin Cuban Film Festival Defies Trump’s Cuba Crackdown with Two Irish Premieres by Azzy O'Connor

The Dublin Cuban Film Festival returns for its third year this July, screening at The New Theatre in Temple Bar and supported by the Communist Party of Ireland and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). The festival opens with the Irish premiere of Cuba After Castro (Thursday 23 July, […]

Cuban Delegate Tells Left to “Maintain Faith” as Island Nation Announces Opening Up by A.C O'Connor

At the end of June, the Communist Party of Ireland had the privilege of hosting an intimate morning event with Elizabeth Ribalta from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), during her travels around Ireland and the UK. The event happened just days after Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel […]

Sectarianism and Racism: A Poisonous Cocktail by Tommy McKearney

The recent rioting and pogrom in Belfast was met with the trite, facile interpretations and responses we have grown all too used to hearing. Proffered explanations ranged from attributing the violence to trouble-stirring social media postings, to loyalist paramilitary intervention, to lax border controls accommodating freeloading, dangerous foreigners (invariably dark-skinned). […]

Western Balkans Part of the Imperial Strategy of Encirclement by Richard Mullen

The latest event in the series of Connolly Conversations, public meetings on current topics held in Connolly Books in Dublin, focused on the developments in the Western Balkans. This term, rather popular in geostrategic parlance of the European Union, denotes the still-not-EU territories in the Balkans. While the protests in […]

Resistance, the Unverifiable, and the Horse in Ali Smith’s Gliff by Jenny Farrell

The dystopian fiction of imperialism, which began with Jack London’s Iron Heel, has returned with a vengeance in the 2020s, increasingly recognised in international literary awards. From Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song (2023 Booker Prize) to Ali Smith’s Gliff (2026 Dublin Literary Award), novelists imagine futures that feel uncomfortably close to the present. Yet where Lynch’s […]

Review: Power Ballad by Tomás Ó Braonáin by Tomás Ó Braonáin

Power BalladBy Tomás Ó Braonáin Dir: John Carney (2026) What if you made something, and it was taken from you? What if you had to watch the thing you brought into existence generates enormous profits; none of which made their way back to you? Would it affect your conception of yourself? […]

Statement from the Communist Party of Ireland on the “European Parliament”Resolution Calling on the EU to Impose Sanctions on Cuba

  by Communist Party of Ireland

The Communist Party of Ireland condemns the resolution passed by the “European Parliament” calling on the EU to impose sanctions on Cuba. In particular, we condemn the support given to this resolution by a number of Irish MEPs. The proposed sanctions have no basis in international law and are in […]