About us

Horizon aims to be a space for Irish Marxists to engage in open debate, critically examine our ideas, and collectively advance the struggle for socialism.

Within the Irish Marxist left, debate, polemical engagement, and serious theoretical development have often been neglected, limiting our ability to refine and advance socialist politics.

Horizon seeks to play a role in breaking this silence by building a Marxist platform that encourages open debate while rejecting sectarian dogmatism and detached academic approaches. By grounding discussion in our shared commitment to working-class emancipation, we can clarify tactics, sharpen strategy, and deepen our collective understanding of Marxism.

To this end we are interested in publishing articles on socialist political strategy, Marxist analysis of current events, contemporary international politics, mass culture, historical analysis of the Irish workers’ movement, and other topics relevant to Marxist theory and practice.

Our ultimate aim is to contribute to what we see as the essential task of the Irish Marxist left: forging a mass socialist party capable of fusing with the working class and leading the struggle for political power.

We do not claim to have all the answers, nor do we impose a rigid line. Yet the questions of strategy, organisation, and programme can’t be ignored. Any serious effort to build a revolutionary movement must confront them. In that spirit, we offer our perspective on the kind of party needed, not as a definitive blueprint, but as one contribution to the essential debates that must take place within the Irish Marxist left.

In our view such a party will need to:

1. Be based on programmatic unity. Unity through struggle for essential political goals, rather than ideological lines or populist slogans that obscure our objectives.
2. Permit free, open, and public debate among members, factions and tendencies to build a democratic organisation capable of leading the struggle for working-class self-emancipation.
3. Stand in complete opposition to partition, the Irish State, the British state and the European Union, rejecting the legitimacy of Bunreacht na hÉireann and the Good Friday Agreement. Using every injustice, scandal and manifestation of oppression to rally the working class towards a socialist alternative.
4. Stand candidates in elections and carry out a strategy of patience, keeping elected representatives under strict membership control. It must refuse to enter government unless the party’s programme can be fully implemented and the capitalist state’s replaced with a 32-county Socialist Republic.
5. Commit itself openly to the conquest of political power by the working class, the establishment of a 32-county Socialist Republic and a Socialist Europe. Allowing us to move together with the international socialist movement towards the communist horizon.

We believe People Before Profit as the largest socialist party in Ireland is the foundation upon which we must build.