International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Rayner O'Connor Lysaght Presente!

John Meehan, Socialist Democracy — 2021-07-08T18:00:50Z

Daniel Rayner O'Connor Lysaght, 30 January 1941 (Llanishen, Cardiff) - 2 July 2021 (Dublin). Founding member of the Irish section of the Fourth International, historian notably of the Limerick soviet of 1919.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Ireland, Obituary, Features

“To all of them we say – Rule out coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael! – Sinn Féin should seek to lead an alternative minority government”

John Meehan, Paul Murphy — 2020-02-28T06:20:08Z

“At a time when left parties in Europe have been losing ground to their rivals on the Right and center, the Irish election bucked the trend. Whatever Sinn Féin does next, this was clearly a left-wing vote. The exit poll showed that health and housing were by far the most important issues for voters. Two-thirds wanted investment in public services to be prioritized over tax cuts. 31 percent agreed with the statement that Ireland ‘needs a radical change in direction'.

“It's possible that this opportunity for change will be squandered. But right now, the momentum in Irish politics is with the Left, and the traditional conservative parties are on the back foot. An election that was supposed to call time on the political turbulence of the last decade has had the opposite effect.” [Daniel Finn “Ireland's Left Turn”.]

- IV541 - February 2020 / Ireland

October 1983 to October 2017 - The Irish State's Abortion War Against Women, the “Unmanageable Revolutionaries”

John Meehan — 2017-10-28T03:12:55Z

In October 1983 an abortion ban entered the Irish Constitution - the infamous 8th Amendment was born. The main conservative parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, promoted the ban, prompted by the Catholic Church hierarchy and members of the medical profession, most of them powerful male gynaecologists.

- IV513 - October 2017 / Ireland, Women

Rewritten European Union Constitution Buried?

John Meehan — 2008-06-23T16:53:35Z

Voters in the Republic of Ireland drove a stake through the heart of the Lisbon Treaty, a rewrite of the European Union Constitution, in a Referendum which took place on June 12 – The result was announced on Friday June 13 2008.

- IV401 - June 2008 / Ireland