"The articles on this page give analysis from the ISN of today's political issues and historical events widely debated on the Left. "       PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES     RESISTANCE SPRING 2010 Business as usual for Israeli apartheid David Landy - Mar 2010 Labour Gains Ed Walsh - Mar 2010 Government attacks community projects Stephen Morris - Mar 2010 The end of social partnership Fergus O'Connor - Mar 2010 The Southern Bank Robbery Kevin Quinn - Mar 2010 Rough Guide to Socialism - Changing the Media Ed Walsh - Mar 2010 Book Review: The Lost Revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party Colm Breatnach - Mar 2010   RESISTANCE SPRING 2009 Responding to the crisis - views from the Left WSM, Eirigi - Mar 2009 Opposing cuts is a public service Ed Walsh - Mar 2009 Left must rise to the challenge John O'Neill - Mar 2009 The builders gave us this crisis - now they must give us their land Kevin Quinn - Mar 2009 Rough Guide to Socialism - Public Ownership Ed Walsh - Mar 2009 Book review - Inside Ulster Loyalism Ed Walsh - Mar 2009   IRELAND Lisbon Mark II carries the day Ed Walsh - Sep 2010 Workers show their anger at economic crisis Ed Walsh - Mar 2009 Reflections on the Anti War Movement in Ireland Paul Moloney - May 2004 Green fig leaf: the weakest link Colm Breathnach - Jul 2007 Labour Pains: The Irish Labour Party Colm Breathnach - Oct 2004 Prospects for The left in The Republic of Ireland Colm Breathnach - Sep 2003 Battle over Rossport Ed Walsh - Nov 2005 When the Boom goes Bust - Thoughts on the Demise of the Celtic Tiger Colm Breathnach - Jan 2007 Lisbon Treaty - After Ireland's "No" vote Irish Socialist Network - Jun 2008 When boom goes bust - thoughts on the Celtic Tiger's demise Colm Breathnach - Jan 2007 The Battle of the Bins Colm Breathnach - Jan 2004 Parting Company - ending social partnership in Ireland Irish Socialist Network - Jun 2003 More of the devil we know - winners and losers of Election 2007 Colm Breathnach - Jul 2007   EUROPE How France's LCR organises Murray Smith - Nov 2008 Whatever Happened to Anti-Capitalism? Ed Walsh - Feb 2007 The Left and the Balkan Wars Ed Walsh - Jul 2007 Sarko's victory in French elections Ed Walsh - May 2007   THE AMERICAS The Race for the White House Ed Walsh - Mar 2008 Is Venezuela on The Road to Dictatorship? Ed Walsh - Jul 2006 After the re-election of Chavez - where now for the Bolivarian Revolution? Ed Walsh - Apr 2007 Venezuela After The Referendum Ed Walsh - Dec 2007   SOCIALIST HISTORY AND THEORY 1968 - Forty Years on Ed Walsh - Apr 2008 Beyond the Life of Brian - Sectarianism and the Left Ed Walsh - Aug 2007 Democracy vs. Capitalism Ed Walsh - Nov 2007 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe Ed Walsh - Sep 2007 The Ideas of Karl Marx: A Basic Introduction Aindrias O Cathasaigh - Sep 2003 Leon Trotsky - a flawed prophet Ed Walsh - Feb 2007 Socialist Classics: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Colm Breathnach - Jan 2007   MIDDLE EAST Book review: Iran Today - Dilip Hiro Ed Walsh - Dec 2006 Palestine: Class, Colonialism & Economy Colm Breathnach - Aug 2003 Putting 'Islamo-Facism' to bed Ed Walsh - Aug 2007 Crisis in Gaza Ed Walsh - Feb 2008 Israel's war on Lebanon Colm Breathnach - Oct 2006 Socialists and Palestine Colm Breathnach - Jan 2003 Iraq - time for the occupiers to leave Ed Walsh - Sep 2005   BRITAIN What will Tony Blair's legacy be? Ed Walsh - Oct 2006 Split in RESPECT Ed Walsh - Dec 2007 Crisis In The SSP Ed Walsh - Nov 2006 Gorgeous George Ed Walsh - Jul 2007   RESISTANCE AUTUMN 2009 Book review - Rave twenty years on Ed Walsh - Sep 2009 Shell Shock in Mayo Ed Walsh - Sep 2009 Iran after the elections Anne McShane - Sep 2009 Would you buy a used car from these people? Ed Walsh - Sep 2009 Rough Guide to Socialism - The European Union Ed Walsh - Sep 2009 New dawn fades in Belfast Colin Coulter - Sep 2009 Back to the eighties Kevin Quinn - Sep 2009       THE IRISH SOCIALIST NETWORK