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Fifty years on from the Pinochet coup in Chile, the Left continues to draw different conclusions from the defeat. Kieran Allen describes the tensions between the Popular Unity government and the workers’ movement at the time, arguing that although Allende was courageous, he made major strategic errors that gave ground
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As record temperatures continue to be broken on a regular basis and climate disasters become all the more frequent, Kieran Allen takes stock of how best the environmental movement can respond. Everyone is talking about the weather. And no wonder, because we have entered the era of climate catastrophe. According
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A €1.2 billion fine against Meta has been upheld by the Court of Justice of the EU. Kieran Allen explains how the Irish Data Protection Commissioner fought tooth and nail to stop this happening. In recent months there have been a series of news reports indicating that the Irish
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As Irish war hawks seek to use the Sudanese crisis to argue for a bigger military force, Kieran Allen looks at how the EU funded the warlords who crushed the Sudanese revolution and are now facing off against one another. The mainstream media is running a story about how the
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Should any police force really be above reproach? Kieran Allen takes stock of Fionnán Sheahan’s impassioned defence of the Gardaí. Last week Fionnán Sheahan, the Irish Independent columnist, lost the rag in a television debate with Adam Doyle, the artist known as Spicebag, who created a parody of Garda
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Kieran Allen explains how the world is a much more dangerous place a year on from Russia’s illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. In the days before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Biden gathered the most-hard line Eastern European members of NATO and told them
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In the first part of our Rebel series on Fascism and the Far-Right, Kieran Allen explains what fascism is. We can date the start of fascism precisely. It began on Sunday March 23 1919 when Mussolini formed the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento. If we look at some key dates
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As the Iranian regime cracks down on protesters, Mick Wallace MEP is being pilloried by the Irish Times for painting the situation as a case of two equal sides. Kieran Allen sets out his opposition to Wallace and explains why it comes from a very different place to that of
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In his biography of Lenin, Georg Lukács claimed that ‘the actuality of revolution’ was at the core of his thought. By this, he meant that Lenin restored Marxism to the working class revolution as a practical reality. Revolution was not just a distant dream or a rhetorical flourish for those
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Thousands of people recently attended the Ireland’s Future event in the 3 Arena to discuss how we might achieve a united Ireland. The speakers included Leo Varadkar, who suggested that today said a “new Ireland” could involve the continuation of a devolved Stormont parliament under the jurisdiction of the
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The Irish government commemorated Michael Collins on the 100th anniversary of his death at Béal na Bláth today, reigniting a debate over his legacy and the Free State that was founded at this time. Kieran Allen takes a closer look at this legacy. This article was first published in the
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As the war on Ukraine drags on, NATO is stepping up its efforts to weaken Russia. Kieran Allen takes a look at how the British Army is training thousands of Ukrainian soldiers to fight. In a village somewhere in Kent in the southeast of England, a mock battle took place