On 23 February 2024, Montgomery County Circuit Court ruled in favor of climate organization Rising Tide North America, dismissing a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) lawsuit against them that was filed by oil pipeline Mountain Valley Pipeline. The court ruled: “Mountain Valley Pipeline has not sufficiently stated a proper cause of action …[they] simply […] The post Court Victory for Rising Tide North America appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

Is ecosocialism a fraud? It’s a harsh question, but it arises because the term ‘ecosocialist’ has been gathering momentum among the Communist and Trotskyist left for the past two decades and now there’s hardly a party on the left that doesn’t describe itself as ecosocialist. At the same time, none of these parties, to my […] The post Is Ecosocialism a Fraud? appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

It’s time to face a harsh reality: the far-right in Ireland is likely to make an electoral breakthrough in the next few years.  The recent upsurge in anti-immigrant street activity, the strength of the far-right presence on social media and the propensity of some parts of the “mainstream” media to amplifying far right Ireland’s messages, […] The post Warning: Far Right Ireland and Elections appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

Gerrah Selby spoke to Independent Left in August 2023 The SHAC campaign stands for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. SHAC formed in 1999 to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences, which was Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory, killing 500 animals every single day. It formed after there was a Channel 4 investigation of the laboratory. And there […] The post Gerrah Selby: End the Prison System; End Animal Cruelty appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

The war in Ukraine is a political earthquake. It has divided the left internationally. I am one of those who believes that the defeat of Russian imperialism by the people of Ukraine is vital for the future of humanity. Either the far-right and authoritarian governments are going to be strengthened or they will be thrown […] The post James Connolly and Ukraine appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

Independent Left stands in full solidarity with DPI and disabled activists as we march to mark Disability Pride month’s campaign for basic rights, destigmatisation of disability and to celebrate being disabled and the positivity of the community. Disabled people are so often ignored pushed aside and their issues and campaigns are often argured for by […] The post Support Disability Power March appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

Independent Left are proud to fully endorse the statement of the National Animal Rights Association after the showing on 10 July 2023 of Fran McNulty’s exposure of the terrible practices in Ireland’s dairy industry. It provides yet another case study of why we should end animal farming. The statement in full: After watching tonight’s RTE […] The post End Animal Farming: RTE’s Dairy’s Dirty Secret appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

‘Only by treasuring that we are stewards of planet Earth, and the finitude that comes with it, will be able to avoid humanity pitting its many powers against itself.’ On the Origin of Time is an important book in two respects: it develops our thinking about the nature of the universe and it calls for […] The post Quantum Holography and the Origin of Time appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

I met Eugene at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, 2023. He came by the event and gave an impromptu talk at a panel on challenging imperialism. Afterwards, he agreed to meet me to be interviewed for the Independent Left website about his experiences with the Arsenal Kyiv, Hoods Hoods Klan, who have been the subject of […] The post Hoods Hoods Klan Interview appeared first on Independent Left ..read more

On 8 May 2023 a barrage of propaganda was put out by the government’s Deer Management Strategy Group in favour of a major cull of Ireland’s deer population. This highly contrived publicity campaign utilised the results of a survey that the group had carried out to generate their newsworthy content. Yet the survey was deeply […] The post Oppose A Deer Cull in Ireland appeared first on Independent Left ..read more