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Joe Allen explains how the anti-war movement in the US is using the Democratic Primary elections to pressure the Biden administration into withdrawing its support for Israel’s genocide. Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty airman based in San Antonio, Texas stood outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin assesses Leo’s legacy and where we go from here. A day after Leo Varadkar’s unexpected resignation, the hagiography around him is already being constructed. “Clear-eyed, decisive politician without the common touch”, reads Harry McGee’s headline in the Irish Times. His coalition partners have
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A ballot for a new pay deal for public sector workers is currently under way. Mark Kerins argues that workers should reject the deal as it comes far short of inflation and will prevent them from taking industrial action for the duration of the agreement. Workers in public sector unions
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A few short years after a popular revolution in Sudan, democracy has been crushed and a bloody civil war is now being waged by rival military factions. Alan Sheeran explains the background to the war. There is a reason the current ongoing civil war in Sudan is being referred to
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Local elections will take place in Ireland later this year. Finbar Lynch spoke to People Before Profit Cllr. Hazel de Nortúin about her experience on Dublin City Council and what socialists can achieve at local council. Finbar Lynch: What first politicised you? Hazel De Nortúin: When Bríd (Smith, TD) was
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As the US presidential election begins to gather steam, Joe Allen looks at the far right threat and the dangerous game being played by the Democrats. Allen asks if Genocide Joe has the support to win or whether a new left alternative should take their place instead. During the first
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On Tuesday 23 January the Ram Mundir temple, built on the ruins of the destroyed Babri Masjid Mosque, was opened to the public for the first time. Shifana Niyas explains how the supremacist Hindutva movement that destroyed the mosque in 1992 is making life increasingly dangerous for Muslims and other
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As we draw closer to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day White House visit, Somhairle Mag Uidhir argues that Ireland is uniquely placed to take a stand with the Palestinian people and boycott the visit. The biggest event on the Irish-US calendar is unquestionably St. Patrick’s Day.
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January 21st marks 100 years since Lenin’s death. Kieran Allen why, a century on, there is still a huge amount that we can learn from Lenin. Lenin once suggested that when revolutionaries are alive, they are vilified, but after they die, are treated as harmless icons. In his own
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In the wake of last Saturday’s enormous Palestine solidarity march, Conor Reddy assesses the growth of movement, the challenges it faces and the strategies we need to bring about full Palestinian liberation. Saturday’s march for Palestine in Dublin was enormous. Perhaps the biggest seen since the peak of
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As public sector workers take to the picket lines today, Olcán Shaw explains how Stormont has failed them and why they are right to take matters into their own hands. “Even if it were fully functioning, our Executive does not have the resources to tackle this problem.” On 25 April
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The new year has opened in much the same vein as the old year, with far right agitators stirring up protests and hatred of migrants across the country. In this article, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin examines what the anti-fascist movement have gotten right and wrong over the past couple of