Author Archives: andrewnflood

Friday June 12ths shock closure of the iconic Clery’s department store in Dublin shows how the law is set up to favour capital and screw workers. Workers are being told there may be no additional redundancy or owed holiday payments as the company is in debt. But this is only the case because right before […]

The next water charges march happens in Dublin June 20th. Here are 3 reasons why you should do your best to be on it. 1. Both the government and Irish Water are refusing to release figures about the number of people who have not paid the bills. The reason is clearly that so far this […]

The last 24 hours (29th May) have demonstrated the truth of ‘If you want to know who really rules you find out who you are not allowed to criticise’. As the image shows billionaire media mogul Denis O’Brien has managed to almost completely suppress stories about him in the few outlets he does not control. […]

The saga of Denis O’Brien trying to stop the media reporting on his relationship with IBRC continues this evening. A short while ago a story reporting on what was said about the deal in the Dáil today vanished from the Irish Times website. Our picture is the screen grab of that story.

I remember being in a tent at Electric Picnic perhaps 3 years ago when Christy Moore belted out the Pogues ‘Thousands are Sailing’ to 15,000 very emotional people. For sure there were other sources but a good part of the emotion was the sense that it was all happening again.

Homelessness in Ireland could be solved at a stroke by allowing people without homes to move into the 302,602 empty houses in the country.   That figure comes from the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis. It’s equivalent of half the homes in Dublin, many of the vacants being in ghost estates that developers […]

May 22nd offers an opportunity for many of us in Ireland to strike a blow against homophobia in voting for Marriage equality.

Drug criminalisation claimed another tragic victim last night 17 May) with the death of 18 year old Ana Hick. From press reports it appears hers was yet another preventable death caused by taking toxic PMMA that is sometimes substituted for MDMA due to prohibition and ruthless gangster capitalism.  

On Friday 22nd Ireland goes to the polls for a referendum to introduce Marriage equality, when it is passed Ireland will be the first country to introduce Marriage equality by popular vote. In the final days of campaigning the reactionary anti-equality crowd are becoming increasingly open about their homophobia as they become increasingly desperate in […]

Revolutions are seldom made in favourable circumstances.  Russia 1917 emerged from the mass slaughter of WWI and the disintegration of an economy under the pressure of the supply demands of that war.  Spain 1936 emerged from a well planned and executed fascist coup amongst a powerful military backed and armed by international fascism.  Schemas for […]