Irish Greens go into Government and make themselves look stupid

This piece for the next issue of SR is by Joe in Belfast. He is something of an unreconstructed ortho-Trot. Though you’d probably have worked that out for yourself. It is a beginner’s guide to just how rubbish the Irish Green Party have been since entering Bertie Ahern’s government. As Lenin, probably, once [...]

RESPECT Belfast style. Bloody grim.

It’s the small differences you notice in Belfast. In the swimming pool changing room a man was talking about his brother’s illness. “He’s in a really bad way. We’ve tried everything. He’s had prayers said for him at Lourdes. We did the Clonard novena and lit candles to the Archangels.” He didn’t mention going to [...]

Respect in the north of Ireland.

British political organisations have long treated their adjuncts in the north of Ireland in much the same way that Tesco and Marks and Spencers do. There are posters in the supermarket advertising £3 off a bottle of wine in London. The same wine will be discounted by the same amount in Belfast. A meeting on [...]

Forum on the collapse of Irish Republicanism -videos

By the weekend bootleg dvds of these videos will be available from hawkers in pubs and markets across the English speaking world and probably outselling pirate copies of the Simpsons film. Here are some extracts from the forum John Mc Anulty did in London for Socialist Resistance last night. I’ll post others in the [...]

Love is blind: The IRSP and Socialist Appeal

Some things were made to go together. Tea with chocolate digestives. Guitars with drums. A pint of London Pride with cod and chips. Other pairings are less easy to understand. Socialist Appeal and the IRSP don’t, on the face of things, seem to have much in common and anyone hoping for a subtly dialectical explanation [...]

The Collapse of Irish Republicanism and the Rise of Reaction

The Collapse of Irish Republicanism and the Rise of Reaction
Speaker: John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy, Ireland)
Manchester: Monday 16 July @ 7.30pm Friends Meeting House Mount St (behind the main Library)
Birmingham: Tuesday 17 July @ 7.30pm Bennetts Bar Bennetts Hill City Centre
London: Wednesday July 18 @ 7.30pm Indian YMCA (41 Fitzroy Square, [...]

Sinn Fein open-minded on creationism

Gone are the old shibboleths of politics in the north of Ireland. Sinn Fein which used to owe a debt to the French Revolution has decided that there’s more to science than Darwinism. There’s intelligent design too.
This story comes from Socialist Demcracy’s Stormont Watch blog.
While there is no shortage of political dinosaurs roaming around [...]

Ireland gets first black mayor

Having won the Eurovision Song Contest more times than is respectable Ireland has spent the last several years trying to become Europe’s most racist society. Then a small town decides to elect a Nigerian former asylum seeker as head of Portlaoise town council. I have absolutely no idea what is behind this but I [...]

The collapse of Irish Republicanism: speaking tour

Irish Republicanism collapsed, went into coalition with Ian Paisley and the British left didn’t bat an eyelid. Though to be fair its Irish franchises didn’t really think it was that important either. Socialist Resistance has organised a tour of Socialist Democracy’s top funster John McAnulty in July. All meetings start at 7.30. The dates [...]

Ould Sergeant Devlin

Here is a bit of a detour. My uncle Charley’s voice will be familiar to many of you. He used to read the news on Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. I recorded this video last year as a bit of oral family history. He recalls the Belfast pogroms of the 1920s and recites [...]