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WorldbyStorm - 11:06 Tue Jul 01, 2025 Senior figures in left-leaning parties are cooling on the idea of endorsing a joint candidate for the presidential election ? although they could still rally behind a suitable Independent, sources say. Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats, People Before Profit-Solidarity and the Greens have held exploratory talks about agreeing a ?consensus candidate? in recent months, … Continue reading "No ‘left-leaning’ Presidential candidate?"
WorldbyStorm - 10:26 Tue Jul 01, 2025 Strange column in the Business Post this last weekend. There Matt Cooper put forward a novel argument about cocaine and alcohol. This being that: The anti-alcohol campaigners who want health warnings on drink products and increased taxes to push prices up further should, by logic and implication, want thelegalisation, regulation and taxation of cocaine and … Continue reading "Alcohol and drugs"
WorldbyStorm - 07:55 Tue Jul 01, 2025 Yougov has this: A year ago, Labour won a landslide majority. Now, however, the party are polling in the low-20s, with significant numbers of those who backed the party last year having defected to the Lib Dems, Reform UK and the Greens, alongside some who say they ?don?t know? who they would vote for in … Continue reading "Who are the voters switching away from British Labour?"
irishonlineleftarchive - 11:31 Mon Jun 30, 2025 Back in 2020 there was this: For some time now we?ve been thinking about the ways the Archive could begin to collate first-hand political reminiscences or observations. Parts of that might be to look at people?s first political activity, their experiences of first being part of a campaign or a political party. Others might be … Continue reading "Another call for personal accounts of membership of left groups and parties for the Left Archive!"
WorldbyStorm - 10:33 Mon Jun 30, 2025 As noted by Tomboktu in comments, we had this gem from the government over the weekend. Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless has said that “as things stand” third level students will have to pay ?1,000 extra in fees this year compared to last year. Mr Lawless said last year’s ?1,000 reduction in … Continue reading "Student fees…"
guestposter - 07:31 Mon Jun 30, 2025 To download the above please click on the following link: Many thanks to Sean Patrick Smyth for forwarding this document to the Archive. This is a central document in the development of the Irish Republican Socialist Party – outlining the adoption of ‘the teachings of Marx, Engels & Lenin’. It notes that: On the week-end … Continue reading "Left Archive: IRSP Statement, 1984 Ard Fhéis, Irish Republican Socialist Party, 1984"
guestposter - 11:13 Sun Jun 29, 2025 As noted in comments yesterday, someone not unknown on the CLR has a play being performed this August. Congratulations to 6to5. The New Theatre presents Forgetting by Cipher Theatre Company. Lisa knows who she is. She is twenty-five years old. She lives in Dublin. And she came into the hospital this morning for surgery. . … Continue reading "The New Theatre presents Forgetting by Cipher Theatre Company – August 20th-22nd" |