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All across the world the Black Lives Matter movement has generated long-overdue debates over the legacies of racism. With some on the right trying to muddy the waters, Eamonn McCann takes a look at Irish racism in the US. Reacting to Black Lives Matter, some Irish social media sites
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Ten years on since the Saville Inquiry, Eamonn McCann argues that despite the attempts to close the case on Bloody Sunday, the full truth of what happened in Derry on the 30th of January 1972 is still being covered up. June 15 is the 10th anniversary of publication of the
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As the struggle for access to abortion continues, Eamonn McCann details the interventions of Attorney General John Larkin into the rights of women in the north of Ireland. In 2010, Stormont’s First and Deputy First ministers, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, appointed John Larkin QC as Attorney General. Larkin
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Given their catastrophic failure to deal with the current pandemic, the British Government is especially keen to make the most of the 75th anniversary of VE Day – the day World War 2 ended. Eamonn McCann takes a look. Coronavirus or no coronavirus, Britain festooned itself with union flags to mark
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“Lord have mercy, it’s the cops!” – Van Morrison ACAB was once so popular there were fellows had it tattooed on their knuckles. But the PR is now so pervasive, and nervousness presses in so closely, that you could find yourself in bother just for spelling it out – All Coppers
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Nobody wanted Boris Johnson dead. At the same time, hardly anybody would have rent their garments in grief if word had come that he’d burbled his last. Latest reports say he’s not entirely out of the woods. Those who had been anticipating his demise with inappropriate relish may
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Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, even the most conservative of columnists are highlighting societies ills, but talk doesn’t guarantee change. According to Eamonn McCann, we have a fight on our hands. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to contract Covid-19. Take New York. The five
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A DUP Councillor recently caused controversy by blaming the onset of the Coronavirus on the decriminalisation of abortion and the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Isn’t he simply being consistent? asks Eamonn McCann. Ballymena DUP councillor John Carson has taken a bit of a battering for saying he believed
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Socialist ideas have been jeered and sneered at by the same establishment now faced with the consequences of their profit driven contempt. We should be done with those bellowing cheerleaders of capitalism, argues Eamonn McCann. On March 27th, Donald Trump invoked the Defence Production Act to direct General Motors to
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As health workers warn of shortages of PPE, ventilators and ICU beds, Eamonn McCann looks at how production can be reorganised to solve the problem. It has been done before and it can be done again. One of the most perplexing aspects of the pandemic lies in the apparent inability
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As the anniversary of Bloody Sunday approaches, Eamonn McCann looks back at the Amritsar massacre, drawing parallels between two murderous atrocities at the hands of the British Empire. Sunday, April 13th 1919 was the day the decline and fall of the British Empire became obvious and undeniable. This was the
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As we move into a new decade, Eamonn McCann gives his hopes for the struggles to come. Twenty nineteen will be remembered as a year of setbacks and disappointment — but also of fight-back and hope. Right-wing demagogues are riding high in the US, Britain, much of Latin America