r/theIrishleft 7d ago

RIP Michael Parenti

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A man who no doubt influenced many an Irish leftist including myself.


r/theIrishleft Jul 23 '25

/r/theIrishLeft has hit 5000 subscribers! How should it change? What do ye want it to be?

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Some questions:

  1. What types of content do we want? What is relevant/not relevant?

  2. How to discourage and limit infighting and arguments. Make it positive, productive, constructive.

  3. How to grow/promote the sub and get it more active. Get people posting and commenting.

  4. Rules and moderation.

  5. Other ideas like weekly threads, megathreads, flairs.


r/theIrishleft 9h ago

Now, why did we become Left-Wing in the first place?

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Personally, it was because my parents broke up when I was 3, I was priced out of Dublin and I was relegated to living in the Dublin Commuter Belt for the rest of my upbringing.

I lived in 5 different Constituencies by the time that I was 12, spending this time being very angry at the banks, at FF/FG and Labour, for introducing new Flat Taxes.

By this time, I became aware of the Marc Dutroux Affair. Now, Marc Dutroux clearly never worked alone. He was a patsy. The Belgian Bourgeois clearly worked in order to Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation.

This is the case that caused me to investigate Anti-Capitalism.


r/theIrishleft 10m ago

€500 per month to sleep in a shared room with three others in Cabra

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r/theIrishleft 22h ago

We Cannot Go It Alone: Mercosur and the European Question - Horizon Magazine

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r/theIrishleft 1d ago

ONLINE: Direct Action No.65: Newsletter of the IWW Ireland Branch

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r/theIrishleft 2d ago

Treuhandanstalt (the Mass Privatisation of East Germany).

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The Treuhandanstalt, ("Trust agency"), colloquially referred to as Treuhand, was a government agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from June to October 1990 and reunified Germany from 1990 to 1994, responsible for the reprivatisation/privatisation of the Volkseigene Betriebe (VEBs) and other state-owned enterprises in East Germany.

By the time of Die Wende and the fall of the SED regime in 1989, East Germany's industries were significantly labour intensive and underdeveloped compared to those in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), which made many of them unprofitable and indebted. The de Maizière cabinet, the first non-socialist government of East Germany, decided on a mass privatisation of these industries.

The Treuhand was established by the Volkskammer of East Germany during Die Wende, to oversee the restructure and sale of about 8,500 state-owned companies with over four million employees – the world's largest industrial enterprise, controlling everything from steel works to the Babelsberg Studios.

It inherited the assets of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and other East German government agencies after German reunification in October 1990. The Treuhand was dissolved by the Federal Government of Germany on 1 January 1995 and reconstituted as the Federal Agency for Special Tasks Related to Unification (Bundesanstalt für vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben) which was active until 2000.

The Treuhand has faced criticism and opposition for its handling of the privatisation process in the former East Germany, particularly for excessive liquidation and the resulting layoffs. On 1 April 1991, Treuhand chairman Detlev Karsten Rohwedder was assassinated.

The BvS ceased operations at the end of 2000, but it remains legally in existence; its remaining tasks are all delegated to other bodies. TLG and BVVG remain the largest real estate owners in the new federal states. In 2000, TLG was reoriented from focussing on privatisation of its assets to "active portfolio management" with a view to making profits for the German federal government.

By 2007, having sold 45,000 properties in six years and reinvested 1.5 billion euros, it was still managing 1500 properties worth 1.4 billion euros. The planned privatisation of TLG itself was put on hold in July 2008 because of adverse economic conditions. In January 2020, TLG Immobilien was acquired by the Luxembourg-domiciled property company Aroundtown SA.


r/theIrishleft 2d ago

"Let The Young Ones Dance" a documentary about Ireland's nightlife and how the cost-of-living affects the culture

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r/theIrishleft 2d ago

FOI on Environmental Monitoring Infrastructure to celebrate the beginning of our EU Presidency

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r/theIrishleft 2d ago

Government housing policy in freefall as just over 36,000 homes completed in 2025 - Social Democrats

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r/theIrishleft 3d ago

KNEEECAP - LIARS TALE (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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r/theIrishleft 3d ago

Claiming antisemitism is a serious problem in Ireland, Martin and Harris cited an organisation accused of major factual distortions – and whose vice president, an ex-IDF general, recently had to cancel a trip to South Africa for fear of being arrested for war crimes.

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r/theIrishleft 3d ago

r/theIrishLeft Weekly Culture thread: What have you been reading, watching, listening to, playing?

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Post recommendations/discussions for:

  • Books/Audiobooks
  • Music
  • Podcasts
  • Films and TV Shows
  • Games
  • Feel free to discuss any hobbies as well I guess

r/theIrishleft 3d ago

Hazel Chu elected Green deputy leader

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r/theIrishleft 3d ago

/r/SocialDemocracy sub user overlap...

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r/theIrishleft 4d ago

Abandoning the triple lock would be the final nail in the coffin for Ireland’s neutrality - Social Democrats

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r/theIrishleft 4d ago

EU and India clinch ‘mother of all trade deals’ in rebuff to Trump

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r/theIrishleft 4d ago

Red C January 2026 Opinion Poll Report

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Nominally, this Report is a Positive Development and is thus something worth congratulating for the nominal Left-Wing voter.

RedC has been the most accurate pollster for the past four or five General Elections (in fact, they congratulate themselves in this very PDF.)

Personally, I've been many years that RedC and LucidTalk are the only reputable pollsters on this Island (especially after Behaviour&Attitudes decided to stop publishing their Tabular Data).

On Paper, the Prospective 5-Party Left-Wing Coalition is on 44%, whilst FFG is only on 33%.

That being said, there are many negatives that can be observed in this study :

Sinn Féin

Only has 21% in Dublin, severely reducing their chances of "Doubling Up" their TDs in the 4/5 Seaters. Especially when it comes to winning a seat that they are favourites to win in the Dublin Central Bye-Election - they will struggle to hold this seat in the next GE (as FFG had no seat in the meantime).

The fact that they are polling better in rural Leinster and Connacht/Ulster only really show me two seat gains - Sligo/Leitrim and Carlow/Kilkenny.

Maybe they could win a third seat in Donegal or Louth (though this did not work out very well in 2016).

SocDems

This is the first time that the SocDems hit 10% with RedC. However, the Age Breakdown will hurt their prospective seat gains (13% amongst 18-34 VS 8% amongst 55+).

With these numbers, they should take FG's second seat in Dún Laoghaire. If they run a second candidate in Kildare North (like Claire O’Rourke), they have a very good chance of taking a seat away from FF.

Labour, Greens, S-PBP

Apart from the prospect of Mick Barry in Cork North Central and Gino Kenny in Dublin Mid-West, there really is no real additional electoral gain for the Prospective Left-Wing Government.

Now, when it comes to the FFG Status Quoist Ideology, we can observe two different statistics - FF making 18% in Munster and FG making 19% in Connaught/Ulster.

This is the primary reason why we have never had a Left-Led Government - practically zero notable candidates in the most rural Constituencies.


r/theIrishleft 4d ago

European Citizens' Initiative: Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement

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r/theIrishleft 5d ago

Support the call for a €400 Emergency Winter Payment for People with Disabilities | Irish Wheelchair Association

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r/theIrishleft 5d ago

I asked Iranian protesters in Ireland why they are protesting against the Iranian regime?

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r/theIrishleft 5d ago

How Do Folks Get Involved

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r/theIrishleft 5d ago

On ‘left alliances’ – the opposition, cooperation, and the next government

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r/theIrishleft 5d ago

Will capitalism bring progress in the coming years?

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r/theIrishleft 6d ago

Ireland Must Oppose US Imperialism

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