International Women's Day is now acknowledged by middle and ruling class organisations, its true purpose disguised and its original intentions have been masked. We are republishing here the writings on James Connolly on women; it is particularly relevant that Connolly reached the conclusions within when he did. Those Republicans claiming his name in the 1970s through the pages of An Phoblacht and Republican News were pushing an anti-women agenda and kept female Republicans segregated into separate auxiliary organisations to the men.

The subjugation of women by the capitalist system is a major obstacle to social revolution. The institutions (governmental, industrial, military etc.) of nearly every society are emphatically patriarchal and male-orientated. As Connolly put it “The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.” Mid-20th century Albania was no exception.

The following is the text of a leaflet distributed at today's Irish language demonstration in Belfast. In the leaflet, the RSYM draws heavily from the writings of language theorist Máirtín Ó Cadhain in regards to the revival of the Irish language and how it is interlinked with the class and national questions.

25 years on, we are no closer to achieving the goals of a 32 County Workers’ Republic. The world in which Neil lived is long gone and the political landscape has changed significantly. But some things remain the same; the role of British imperialism in Ireland has not changed. Sean McGowan deliveres oration at a commemoration in Derry on the 25th Anniversary of INLA Volunteer Neil McMonagle's murder by the SAS.

Seamus Curran examines the surpression of the democratic national movement in Ireland following the 1918 general election which led to the establishment of a revolutionary government independent of Westminster and how this relates to Ireland today in the context of the Good Friday Agreement.

We are publishing here an article by RSYM member Seamus O'Riordan regarding anonymous criticism online regarding the Trotsky - Stalin debate and were our position lies. We have always said we welcome criticism and will meet with any organisation or individual to discuss any concerns regarding the nature of our group.