The ideas in this articles are extremely fresh and extremely clear. In the current crisis the nature of capitalism in Ireland is being revealed day after day. The Capitalist class and their political representatives are desperate to make us pay for their crisis. The ideas of socialism and the role of the working class in changing society are as true or even more true today than they were at the time when James Connolly wrote these lines in The Workers Republic:

"Therefore, I say, let us organise as a class to meet our masters and destroy their mastership; organise to drive them from their hold upon public life through their political power; organise to wrench from their robber clutch the land and workshops on and in which they enslave us; organise to cleanse our social life from the stain of social cannibalism, from the preying of man upon his fellow man."

Fightback Editorial Board 

Today’s demonstration of the 24/7 Frontline Alliance was a lot smaller than the big rain soaked demonstrations on Friday, but no less important in some ways. It’s seldom a good idea to take on all of your enemies at the same time. It’s a sign of the times when the Gards, their Sergeants, and the Prison Officers start agitating. But this is a crisis of the bosses making, there are savage cuts in payments and huge pressures on the rank and file Gardai. The crisis is eroding the support for the entire system.