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As with many public services education is often overlooked by mainstream politics and politicians – it barely surfaced in the recent general election campaign. Here Deirdre Cronin examines the class basis to the crisis in education and argues the US teachers’ struggles of the past decade need to be replicated here.
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A friend of mine found the film The Brutalist to be ‘epic, beautiful, disturbing’. It was but I’d like to look into what ends these attributes serve. Its effects are contrived – like all art – but I would suggest that this movie is weirdly self-conscious in its contrivances, and
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Just weeks into a long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza, the increasingly demented ravings emanating from the White House suggest that ‘peacemaker’ Donald Trump is preparing for a renewal of slaughter. Brian Kelly explores the convergence between Trump and the Zionist far right, asks why the whole of the western establishment
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Brian Kelly explains how Trump has ripped away all pretence when it comes to the pursuit of US imperialist interests, arguing that these actions could provoke an anti-imperialist response far greater than his administration might have bargained for. It seems hard to believe, but just two weeks ago many
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Kieran Allen explains how the Irish Government is preparing to prostrate itself to the Trump administration. In left-wing circles, the author Mark Fischer was known for the phrase ‘Capitalist Realism’ which was used as the title of his book. It claimed there were no real choices which override the
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Lamia Tadjine explains how the the Palestinian Authority collaborates with Israel and US imperialism to crush Palestinian resistance. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is portrayed by liberal media as Palestine’s only respectable political body that can represent the interests of Palestinians at an international level. The idea is often put
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Eamonn McCann reviews A Complete Unknown, the new film about Bob Dylan. There are some things about Bob Dylan’s music so obvious they are much misunderstood, including by trained Dylanologists on the lookout for mystical meanings. In fact, there’s no mystery. Much as we’d all have been
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Colin Redmond explores far-right gaming platforms and their function as a tool of radicalisation. The far right have been utilising videogames and adjacent social platforms (Discord; Twitch; Steam; Telegram; Rumble etc.) to spread their ideology of white supremacy and fascism and this is especially true since ‘Gamergate: 2014.’ Their
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Adrienne Wallace looks at the renewed assault on gender rights and how we can build a fight against it in the era of tech billionaires. “We’ve great women and we want them breeding. Our women are only breeding 1.5 or 1.6 children. That’s shocking for an
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Derry City and Strabane Cllr. Shaun Harkin argues that we need socialist organisation to build a challenge to an increasingly dangerous and authoritarian elite. Nigel Farage, Ian Paisley Jr. and Conor McGregor were all in the US to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President. The danger Trump and
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Angy Skuce explains how Irish healthcare workers have been moved to action by the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As I write this, Ireland is preparing for Storm Eowyn. I am thinking of my flight to Geneva, booked for Saturday morning, and hoping that I will make it
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Bill Mullen discusses the threat of a new Trump presidency and how he and his band of billionaires can be resisted. Within 24 hours of Donald inauguration the following events occurred: American Nazis and Neo-Nazis who took part in the January 6th, 2021, right-wing riot in Washington D.