Connolly Youth Movement
Ireland is internationally labeled as a corporate tax haven. Apple owes the 26 county state 13bn. These profits have been made by these tax breaks and now it’s the Irish people who again have to pick up the pieces as they fire their workers at the first opportunity.
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Only when Irish and migrant workers unite and tear down barriers of language and nationality can the bosses be defeated and the downward trend of wages and conditions reversed.
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In the same vein as many contemporary and later African socialists, Fanon saw a uniquely African situation that required a rethinking of orthodox Marxist analysis.
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“And that’s what the Iron Bank is- a temple. We all live in its shadow, and almost none of us
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Apple, among the world’s most profitable and valuable companies in the world, is given a free pass to avoid paying tax in Ireland
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They demonstrated the power that workers have– these are overwhelmingly women with children and 20+ years in the job, who are risking arrest and an injunction from KPMG, to fight for what they knew was correct and just.
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Connolly’s legacy has been claimed by many groups, but most concerning are recent attempts by unscrupulous individuals on Ireland’s far-right to rewrite history and exploit weaknesses in the Left’s social media tactics to amplify their hateful message out of proportion. The CYM is leading the fight against many of these emergent fascist groups on the streets, and this physical battle cannot succeed without an ideological one being waged in concert.
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The grounding of queer organising in queer history is essential.
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The concept of being brutalised by police days after creating one of the most important works in music history was entirely surreal for white people, it was as if the Beatles were attacked days after releasing Abbey Road.
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‘Aid to a neo-colonial State is merely a revolving credit, paid by the neo-colonial State and returned to the neo-colonial master in the form of increased profits’
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“Totalitarianism” is a bourgeois dog-whistle, and the philosophical complexity of class struggle is lost on them, as in most political spheres, but it should not be lost amongst us Marxists. Just as communists are vanguards of the revolution, so too must we be vanguards of the logic of revolution, and we must confront liberal propaganda in places where others simply cannot go by virtue of Marxist-Leninist analysis.
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