Socialist Voice

The October Socialist Voice is now online: https://socialistvoice.ie/category/article/latest/

Contents:

Cost of Living Under Capitalism  by Eugene McCartan

Many working families will face very difficult choices this coming winter regarding putting food on the table or heating their homes. The unit rates for electricity, as well as the standing charges, will each increase by 9.5%. While the price of food continues to increase, between June 2024 and June 2025 food and non-alcoholic […]

The Presidential Race and Irish Neutrality  by Fionn Wallace

The three-way presidential race between Catherine Connolly, Jim Gavin, and Heather Humphreys has helped bring the Triple Lock into the conversation. However, the media and the government candidates are at pains to ensure the issue is not conflated with abandoning Irish neutrality.  Humphreys and Gavin have faced no challenge in […]

Vote For Catherine Connolly  by Eugene McCartan

The Presidential election provides all those who are concerned about Irish neutrality and the Triple Lock with an opportunity to raise this critical issue.  On Friday the 24th of October, we will be asked to vote for a new President of the State after the current holder of the office, […]

Legacy Issues: Brits Continue to Drag Their Feet by Tommy McKearney

Last month, the Irish and British governments launched their joint Legacy Framework proposals. The stated aim is to provide families of Troubles-related dead with, “… a fair, proportionate, and transparent system to seek answers.”  This initiative is being described by both states as a means of undoing a flawed and […]

They Destroyed Our Estates for Their Rich Capitalist Mates  by James O'Toole, Red Network

I remember Fatima Mansions flats had a live-in caretaker when I was there as a kid. They removed the caretakers as part of a general attack on social housing. At the start of the 1980s, they were building 8,000 homes a year; by the end, it was just 800.  They […]

UCD’s Dirty War Against UCD Encampment: Silence is Violence 

  by Róisín McAleer: Social Rights Ireland

The ‘Break the Chains of Academic Zionism’ encampment at University College Dublin is heading into its third week. What began on 7th September 2025, with one lone Social Rights Ireland activist refusing to stay silent about UCD’s collaboration with the Zionist entity, has grown into a determined camp of resistance.  […]

CPI Represented at Friends of Socialist China Conference by Gearóid Ó Machail

Friends of Socialist China held its second annual China Conference on Saturday, September 27. Delegates gathered in London’s Bolivar Hall to hear expert presentations from an international range of diplomatic representatives, progressive scholars and activists on such topics as: 80 years since the defeat of fascism—China as a force for […]

From Gaza to Sao Paulo by Rafaela Martins

In recent years, the government of São Paulo, led by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, has spent over 37 million Brazilian Reais on contracts with Israeli military companies. These include Israel Weapons Industries, Meprolight, and Cellebrite, known for their weapons and surveillance technologies. These tools, often described as “combat-tested,” are now […]

US Escalates Imperial Aggression Against Venezuela  by Graham Harrington

In recent weeks, the United States has sharply escalated its attempts to throttle the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Under the pretext of fighting drugs, the US has deployed thousands of troops, warships, a nuclear submarine, and F-35 fighter jets off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. These forces have attacked fishing […]

International Solidarity Visit with the Lebanese and Palestinian People: Beirut, September 2025  Byaaron nolandj

Leaving Ireland to be with the communist parties of the world in Beirut brought mixed feelings of huge pride and not a little trepidation. Would we be stopped, harassed, or deported on our journey? Would the Occupation decide to annihilate the comrades? I thought of Donnelly and the brigaders, the obstacles […]

Crime, Drugs, and Class: Breaking Ireland’s Cycle of Despair

  by Eoghan O’Neill

Ireland’s working-class communities have lived with the shadow of the drug trade for decades. From the heroin epidemic of the 1980s to today’s cocaine economy, drugs have carved deep scars through families, schools, and neighbourhoods. Entire generations were written off, while governments looked away.  Today, the problem remains as sharp as ever. […]

The Communist Party as the Vanguard – Lenin’s Lessons for Today

  by Eoghan O’Neill

Over the first seven articles in this series, we demonstrated how public ownership, democratic planning, and socialist economics offer a compelling alternative to the chaos, inequality, and destruction of capitalism. But economic theory—no matter how coherent—remains inert without the political power to implement it. Equally, political power without a class-based economic programme devolves […]

Arthur Guinness Turns 300  by Jenny Farrell

Fun fact: Guinness, the quintessential Irish drink exported worldwide, originated in the working-class pubs of early 18th-century London. Known as porter, this dark beer was invented as an affordable, nutritious, and consistent alternative to the custom-mixed blends patrons often bought. Its name came from its immense popularity with London’s dockworkers […]

GHF: Weaponising Humanitarian Aid as a Colonial Tool in Gaza

  by Dr. Rasem Bisharat - PhD in West Asian Studies and Commissioner for External Relations, Al-Baider Organisation for the Defence of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages in Palestine

Since February 2025, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has presented itself as a relief initiative to ease hunger and suffering in Gaza, promising food, water, medicine, and shelter while blocking aid from reaching Hamas. Yet, this condition revealed its deeper purpose: aid transformed into a political weapon to reshape Palestinian […]

Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony ‘Babi Yar’: A Profound Reflection on Soviet Society, History, and Humanism by Jenny Farrell

In 1962, Shostakovich composed his 13th Symphony, based on five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. These poems reflect on Soviet society during the 1950s and 60s, exploring themes ranging from the suffering caused by Nazi Germany and the resilience found in humour, to the trauma of Stalinism and the strength of […]