The Irish Left

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Friday June 22, 2007 12:20

by Mick Hall

For a Nation with a population less than that of London, Ireland to its credit has always had a historic, vibrant and rigorous left wing political culture, thus it is impossible to do justice to what constitutes the Irish Left of today in a single article. This piece is far from a complete bibliography and unlike many previous articles on the Left in Ireland, I have included the Irish Republican Movement. Whilst I accept this may not be to the liking of some readers, in my opinion not only do many Republican organizations deserve on merit to be within any serious analysis of the Irish Left, but I believe it would be nonsensical to exclude the Irish Republican Movement, not least because it has acted as the mid-wife to much of today's Irish left. Republicanism has at times also managed, for a host of differing reasons, to divert some of the finest sons and daughters of the Irish working class into the cul-de-sac of nationalism.

I have posted an article about the current state of the Irish Left on Organized Rage.

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Organized Rage

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Comments (1 of 1)

Ludicrous

by Himself

Mon Jun 25, 2007 20:07

There is also a sprinkling of anarchist groups, however the commonality amongst all of these groups is whilst they may have a small cadre of committed activists, their level of public support in reality could be measured on a pinhead.

Do you mind me asking what year you wrote the above article in? Who in God's name supports the CPI out there these days? Your derogatory and snide treatment of anarchists could do with a decent re-edit for application to the Stalinists. I'd suggest you leave these sort of reports to people whose knowledge of the left comes from more than a brief flirtation during college and then Wikipedia years later. Does the ISN not deserve a mention? Posting this on Indymedia really is to your embarrassment.