A critical overview of the CPI website and Socialist Voice
The CPI website published just 42 posts in 2025. Of these, 27 were of national relevance with 16 of those related directly to the CPI as in publishing a CPI statement, directly organising an event or playing a significant role in any event. The remainder were related to external events and statements/reports.
There were 15 international related posts and of those, 10 involved a direct or significant CPI organisation or participation. 6 of these posts displayed very active solidarity with Cuba.
Not one post provided a way forward for readers of the site on any issue and apart from the organised events, no invitation to anyone to join with the party in developing any issue nor any indications on how readers might get themselves further involved.
In 2024 there were just 14 posts in total.
Between 12 December 2025 and 9 March 2026 (the date of this publication) there were no new posts – that’s almost three months of no activity!
As we have stated in the past “….though Socialist Voice provides a platform for progressive ideas and concepts it rarely ever gets beyond stating the obvious or just lecturing others on what needs to be done. The problem is that many people know what needs to be done they just don’t know how to do it.” We would contend that the same description fits the website today.
Overall display
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words which is just as well considering the growing trend in the CPI website to substitute text with pictures, see We’re Standing Together Protest in Dublin Today, On Saturday past, the queer committee of the Communist Party of Ireland and National Housing March- Dublin 5th July One or two paragraphs is all you get.
Like Socialist Voice, this website has no idea what it is supposed to be. As we acknowledge in these pages, analysis or criticism can easily take on a subjective bent which is why we always strive to present evidence that stands up to scrutiny. In this regard, it has to be said that the CPI makes our task very easy. How successful we are or have been in exposing the soft underbelly can be judged by the fact that the CPI has not contradicted or challenged a single word we have written over the past four years.
Lack of any urgency or direction
Reading Socialist Voice always leads us back to the same question: what is it supposed to be? If it is intended to be a forum for the publication of individual commentary, book reviews and historical nostalgia then we would have to concede that it fulfils that purpose adequately and joins a long list of other outlets that serve the same purpose.
If the CPI wants to continue publishing its website and Socialist Voice in their current formats and within the same timelines, then links to external outlets would be a useful addition. There are some really good writers out in the wider world but perhaps not pure enough for the CPI. The fact is that a monthly publication supported by a website that can be out of date by months does not constitute serious political activity.
That still leaves the problem that the website and Socialist Voice are dull as ditchwater and just as stagnant. In that regard, it seems that the editor’s job is still open.
It is quite unfathomable how such an exciting philosophy can be presented in such a dull manner and pursued at such a snail’s pace.
The public self-negation of the role of the party itself in leading any political activity is a serious consideration. Every statement issued and almost every article published is as if the party is just a bystander in the great scheme of things. It presents itself as a benign actor whose only function is to be ‘right’ and whose role is to tell other organisations what to do and it does so without any apparent awareness or understanding of the message it is imparting.
In particular, there are regular criticisms of the trade union movement while at the same time calling on, or outright demanding that the unions take the lead in this or that campaign. This contradiction is especially noticeable in the editorial side (website statements) and from leading members writing in Socialist Voice.
These aberrations are a sure giveaway indication of the absence of any organisational or leadership abilities.
Even more revealing is the total absence of any aspiration to take a lead in any activity. No plan, no hope, and no vision.
Another noticeable feature of the website and Socialist Voice is that it exposes the CPI’s apparent awakening to the concept of hypocrisy.
The range of issues it can address has been severely curtailed by the knowledge that articles on social justice, democracy, or equality, for instance, will attract immediate, critical and evidence-based appraisal.
Socialist Voice reviews in future will also include a review of the website.
As always, we offer the CPI a right of reply.