News of further Labour Party and Socialist Party resignations in Ireland has emerged over the last few days. These resignations reflect a dissatisfaction with the existing parties in the face of the social, economic and political crisis within the state. The task of Marxists is to win the working class to a revolutionary programme. There are no short cuts to this.

The dramatic events in Turkey, Brazil and Egypt are a graphic indication that we have now entered an entirely new situation on a world scale. We publish here a recent statement by the International Marxist Tendency on the process of world revolution that is rapidly unfolding before our eyes as the masses enter the scene of history globally.

Riots involving the throwing of a pipe bomb at police officers in Crumlin Road in North Belfast and other clashes involving the use of petrol bombs in East Belfast have been reported in the media. Eoin Gilligan of the Irish Marxists, Fightback, analyses the emergence of “Dissident Loyalism”.