A few words on Socialist Voice
Socialist Voice contains many excellent articles and is certainly a good platform for comment and analysis. But, that is all it is. It seems that in the absence of any other forms of political activities, the Party campaigns on the basis of publishing articles in Socialist Voice, various pamphlets and in the internal circulation of some reports and ‘national newsletters’.
The workers should do this, the unions should do that, and everyone else should do the other is repeatedly published in some form or other within these publications. It would appear that there is a belief that workers, trade unions leaders, social organisations, other political organisations, local councils, government departments etc are all waiting anxiously for the publication of the next Socialist Voice to find out what they should be doing or might be expected to do by the Communist Party of Ireland.
They are doing no such thing. And, even if they were, they are not being faced with any particular challenge to which they might be held to account. In fact, none of these entities is being challenged or held to account by the Party in any way whatsoever.
We hold this belief because if such challenges, if such holding to account is taking place in any direct form, it is not being reported back to members or to the readers of its publications – either the content of the challenges or the responses (or even an account of the lack of responses).