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The centre ground of Irish politics lurched towards the right in the recent elections, with anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric emanating from mainstream parties. Among other tactics, the government has sought to deflect attention away from their failed policies by raising the issue of deportations. In this article, Joe Moore
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Catherine Curran Vigier explains the social crisis following Le Pen’s electoral victory and Macron’s sudden calling of an election. She argues that the unity of the left – the New Popular Front – is a step forward in the fight against the far right but that it needs a strong
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With the British Tories promising to “Stop the Boats” by implementing their Rwanda policy, the Irish government leaving open such a possibility and the far right in Ireland agitating for a similar policy, Stewart Smyth, analyses examples of the policy in other jurisdictions. He shows the policy is a continual
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John Lannon of Shannonwatch makes the decisive case for evicting the US military from Ireland once and for all. The Irish government needs to go beyond symbolic gestures to help people of Gaza. As the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement points out, one of the main reasons Israel is able
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With counting just finishing in the local elections, Kieran Allen analyses the results arguing that the establishment has used anti-immigrant rhetoric to shore up FF/FG votes. Meanwhile, Sinn Féin’s decline is a direct result of their long-march to the centre ground strategy and an inability to
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Students revolting, Trump’s conviction, Genocide Joe’s continued support for Israel and an Unholy Alliance on the far right, Bill V. Mullen, analyses the various political processes at work in the US today. The Global Student Intifada launched on U.S. university campuses this Spring has shaken the U.
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As the solidarity movement for Gaza continues to grow across the globe, Eli Kane explains how students in Ireland have been in the lead. How the students have been making the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (DBS) a reality on Irish campuses and showing the path that labour unions and others
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Housing is the number one issue in these elections. Stewart Smyth argues that the local elections represent an opportunity to put campaigners in council chambers and evict Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The housing crisis remains the central issue for most voters. Housing is consistently the number one issue for
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Marnie Holborow explores the deeply exploitative and misogynistic currents of modern childcare under neoliberal capitalism. Arguing for a state-led solution to lift families and parents up from the chaos of the private market childcare industrial complex. A recent report from Irish Life found that Ireland’s gender pension gap
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As the general election process continues in India, Shanti Dey explains the background and history to the rise of Modi and his far right, supremacist party the BJP. In 2014, Modi came to power with vibrant promises of economic glory, anti-corruption and with seemingly tremendous mass support from all
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The Irish Government recognised the State of Palestine yesterday. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the move is a cynical one, designed to appease a persistent solidarity movement with symbolic actions of little substance. Yesterday, Ireland, along with Norway and Spain, recognised the State of Palestine in what was described in
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In this article activist-academic Camilla Fitzsimons, analyses two different approaches to the fight against wonen’s oppression. She argues that neoliberal feminism is a dead-end, with an anti-capitalist feminism providing a superior, alternative route. In early 2022, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) announced that