Tag: PBP

TCD Trotskyist Tiff Brewing Over SU Disaffiliation?

House 6 off College Green is arguably People Before Profit's most influential albeit informal branch in existence. The college offices of Trinity College’s Student Union (TCDSU), the narrow left-wing circuit built around the organisation stumbles through each consecutive year through...

/ 11/12/2024

Clare Daly: Where Next for the Anti-War Irish Left?

Is Dublin Central on the cusp of having its Sahra Wagenknecht moment? Just weeks after packing up her office in Brussels anti-imperialist extraordinaire Clare Daly is setting her sights on reviving her domestic political career with a stab at reentering...

/ 27/11/2024

Agent Cobalt: Oireachtas Spy Scandal of MI5 Dirty Tricks

Weeks before a likely November election The Sunday Times Irish edition has again hit upon journalistic gold.  A potential honeypot operation at the beating heart of power in Leinster House implicating an as-of-yet anonymous Irish parliamentarian, a Russian embassy apparatchik...

/ 08/10/2024

Solidarity Sabotaged? Infighting Cripples Left Response to Posie Parker in Dublin

It would have been hard to avoid the sense that some degree of change is on the cards Sunday, as Dublin's fair city played host to two well-attended Right-leaning events against a glaringly lacklustre response from the Left. On Merrion...

/ 17/09/2023

Wake Up and Smell the Kerosene: Battle of Pearse Street Just the Start

"A glory to Dublin, to her we renown, In the long generations her fame will go down, And the children will tell how their forefathers saw, The red blaze of freedom on Erin Go Bragh"-Peadar Kearney The Irish state’s response...

/ 13/05/2023

Hate Speech Bill Passes Dáil

The Irish government, arguably now the most progressive regime in Europe, has been playing catch up with the European Union in recent years as the country desperately tries to atone for its conservative history.  Wednesday, the 26th of April, the...

/ 28/04/2023

Green Party Not Welcome? Division Between the Centre and Far-Left Following Pro-Migration Rally

Centre Left vs Far Left Divide at the Pro-Migration RallyIt appears there is trouble in paradise as Ireland’s pro-migration front has been showing deep divides since the even day before the Saturday March by Le Chéile took place. The night...

/ 24/02/2023

Why was Richard Boyd Barrett Next to Killer Steo Wall at the ‘Ireland For All’ Rally?

‘Ireland For All’, surely the event of the year for sweaty neckbeards and fupa afflicted mingers, occurred yesterday. Organsied by ‘Le Cheile’, a pro-migration organisation established in late 2020, the rally’s raison d'etre was to demonstrate a show of force...

/ 19/02/2023

East Wall Fights on with Busáras Blockade

The asylum standoff at East Wall shows no sign subsiding with coordinated shutdowns by residents yesterday evening at Busáras bus terminal and the Samuel Beckett Bridge simultaneously. Beginning after 5pm, protestors successfully stalled traffic at key transport arteries in the...

/ 08/12/2022

Cost of Living Protests: The Left Plays the Populist Game

Two years of the Irish Left hiding behind NPHET’s skirt came to an end this weekend as Dublin saw mass mobilisation for a march against the Cost of Living Crisis. Headlined by Taoiseach in waiting Mary Lou MacDonald and the...

/ 26/09/2022