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2023 closed in the United States with the emergence of the most significant antiwar campaigning in two decades. Joe Allen writes. Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza since Hamas’ October 7th attack has produced the most significant antiwar campaigning since the election of Barack Obama in 2008. For the first
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As the housing crisis rages across this island Stewart Smyth assesses the need for a state construction company and welcomes the announcement of new NIHE homes being built in the North. However, major battles on housing lie ahead. Irish Housing Minister, Darragh O’Brien, is the consummate bourgeois politician. While
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Germany has been one of the most vociferous supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Maurice Coakley explains the confluence of factors that have led German leaders to proclaim “Never Again” when it comes to the horrors of the Holocaust, even as they cheer on the horrors of the new
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ON HYPOCRISY Students and staff in a number of Irish universities have demanded their institutions speak out against genocidal attacks by Israel on Palestinian people. The response exposes the hypocrisy that often lies behind ‘Western liberal values’. Take UCD, as an example. In a response to a letter signed by
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin offers a scathing eulogy to a man who wrought havoc on countless countries and peoples across the globe. Whose scars are still borne by the global South and whose passing must inspire us to fight every future Kissinger that may burden the Earth with imperialism in the
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Israel’s occupation and colonisation of Palestine has aimed to erase everything about Palestinian life, land and culture. As Alexandra Day explains, this has also involved the imposition of a kind of climate apartheid and attempts to erase even Palestine’s nature. In the decades since 1948, apartheid and ethnic
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As Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza continues Stewart Smyth takes stock of the means by which racism has been used, both historically and in the present day, to dehumanise people and justify their slaughter. Human beings are not naturally predisposed to killing each other. I know that statement appears
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Kiran Emrich reviews the new Martin Scorsese film about a little know series of murders that the Osage Nation suffered in the early part of the last century. While spotlighting these horrible events, the film ultimately fails to make clear the broader connections to the structural racism embedded with capitalism.
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Brian O’Boyle explores the cracks now forming in western imperialism as a result of Israel’s brutal offensive on Palestine and argues that we must be determined to resist until apartheid and imperialism crumble worldwide. On October 7, the façade of peace in Palestine was shattered when thousands of
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As people around the world protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mary Smith draws some lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Campaign against South Africa, arguing that more urgently than ever, we need to build a global BDS movement against Israel. The scale and barbarity of the Holocaust can be
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Kiran Emrich writes about the recent show of Palestine solidarity by Celtic fans and the hypocrisy of football’s governing bodies in dictating who fans and players can and cannot support. On Wednesday 25th October we saw another awesome display of solidarity with the people of Palestine by Glasgow Celtic
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Cian Prendiville reviews ‘A Very British Coup’, the Channel 4 series based on the book by Chris Mullin. Available to watch online on the Channel 4 website & app. Book by Chris Mullin also available. Also on audiobook. Earlier this year Varadkar accused PBP of advocating a ‘bonkers conspiracy theory’