Socialist Voice

The September Socialist Voice is now available online : https://socialistvoice.ie

Content:

1. Freedom and Sovereignty: Richard Mullen

One of the latest in a series of high-profile attacks on Irish neutrality came from the Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, at a Béal na Bláth Michael Collins commemoration. In concert with the media campaign for the removal of the Triple Lock, MacNeill and the rest of the government speak […]

2. AI Bubble and Capital on the Brink: Nial Cullinane

The business press is increasingly concerned about the AI stock market bubble. Concerns are being highlighted about over-concentration in AI-related giants, noting that the hype around AI may be inflating valuations while delivering lacklustre returns (Tech Stocks are sending a warning, Financial Times, 23 August). A recently published Massachusetts Institute of […]

3. Irish Neutrality – Part of the Struggle for World Peace: Jimmy Corcoran

The struggle for Irish sovereignty, encompassing national reunification and the defence of Irish neutrality, is more than an Irish or a regional issue. It represents a potential front in the global confrontation against a US-led imperialist bloc, spearheaded by NATO and the EU, which is preparing for war against Russia […]

4. Unionism Continues to Flounder: Tommy McKearney

With the traditional Orange marching season now ended, it is timely to review certain events in the North. Unlike times past when assessing summer in the six counties, this year attention has turned towards differences within sections of the pro-union community rather than confrontations with their neighbours. To be precise, […]

5. Twenty Years On: The Beating Heart of Injustice for Terence WheelockJames O'Toole, Red Network

Twenty years ago, on 16 September 2005, Terence Wheelock died after weeks in a coma. He’d been arrested on 2 June 2005 and taken to Store Street Garda station in Dublin’s north inner city. The Guards claimed he hung himself. But their story didn’t add up. The Wheelock family have […]

6. USA AND RUSSIAN FEDERATION ALASKA SUMMITRoisin McAleer. Social Network Ireland

The Alaska Summit between the USA and the Russian Federation carried historic weight. It was not just another diplomatic meeting; it symbolised the irreversible declaration that the Zionist-dominated Western unipolar world is finished. The central issue was the Ukrainian conflict, under the motto of “pursuing peace”. On the table sat […]

7. From the Fields of Ireland to the Hills of Palestine: A History Bearing Witness to Injustice:   Rasem Bisharat PhD in West Asian Studies and Commissioner for External Relations at Al-Baider Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages in Palestine

In past centuries, Ireland endured one of the harshest colonial experiences in European history. During the British era, Irish farmers saw their lands confiscated and were forcibly displaced from their farms to make way for Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. This policy—known as the Plantation Policy—entailed the large-scale seizure […]

8. Racist Division is the Enemy of Workers: Sajeev Kumar

The brutal attack and humiliation of an Indian immigrant in Tallaght, based on false narratives, is contemptible and abominable. There have been racially motivated attacks in Ballymena earlier, and violence targeting immigrants in Dublin a year ago. What used to be isolated attacks are growing into an epidemic; a Pakistani […]

9. Migration, Borders, and Class: A Marxist Response: Eoghan O'Neill

Migration has become one of the sharpest dividing lines in Irish politics. Across estates, villages, and towns, people feel the crunch of housing shortages, collapsing health services, and precarious work. The far right has seized on these frustrations, directing anger at migrants instead of profiteers. Meanwhile, parts of the left […]

10: Stand Up For The Flag ! Joe Mooney

I am not embarrassed by the Irish tri-colour. I am not ashamed of the Irish tri-colour. I never was and I never will be. I am proud of what it stands for, I am proud of its meaning and I am proud of its history.  At the same time I […]

11. Guerrilla Warfare and Death by a Thousand Cuts: Barry Murray

The guerrilla fighters of the Palestinian Resistance have taken the various doctrines on guerrilla warfare to a whole new level in their two years of fighting the genocidal, Zionist, Israeli army. After two years, in areas that the Israelis claim to have “pacified” and turned into rubble, the guerrillas are still inflicting major […]

12. First National Meeting of Cubans Residing in Ireland and Their Descendants: Dublin, 11 October 2025: Bernardo Guanche Hernández (Cuban Ambassador to Ireland)

As an unequivocal expression of the deepening of ties with its nationals abroad—in this case, with Cubans and their descendants living in Ireland—the Consular Office of the Cuban Embassy in Dublin has convened the First National Meeting of Cubans Residing in Ireland and Their Descendants for 11 October. The date […]

13. No MAS: A View on Bolivia’s Elections from the Highest City in the World:  Tom Kilfeather

Last month’s spectacular collapse of Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has felled one of the last bastions of Latin America’s “Pink Tide”, dealing a devastating blow to the country’s indigenous, peasant, and working classes. Now, Bolivians must choose between two right-wing candidates in the country’s first-ever runoff elections, while progressive […]

14. Frantz Fanon (1925–1961): Doctor, Revolutionary, Pioneer of Decolonisation: Jenny Farrell

Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 in Martinique, a French colony where formal citizenship masked systemic racial inequality. Though raised in a prosperous Black family and steeped in Enlightenment ideals, Fanon became disillusioned during World War II. Joining the Free French forces in 1943, he encountered severe racism within the […]

15 Letter to editor  Letter to Editor Re-framing the Growth Debate: A Response to ‘Stalling Into The Oblivion’ Nicola Lawlor

Dear Comrade, The August issue of Socialist Voice published an excellent piece by Niall Cullinane entitled ‘Stalling into Oblivion’, which outlined the stagnating tendency of contemporary capitalism and the decline of GDP growth decade by decade since the 1960s. The article ended with a slight nod to those who may favour ‘degrowth’ […]