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Any book written by leading climate scientist Michael Mann should be taken seriously – which is why Owen McCormack believes that this book is so profoundly disappointing and dangerous. The future hope for real climate action, he argues, does not lie in corporate boardrooms but in working class communities, in the
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UCU staff were on strike this week, fighting cuts to the Universities Superannuation Scheme and to pensions. Workers have seen a 20% real terms pay cut over the past 12 years. Workloads are becoming increasingly unmanageable, and pay inequality and exploitative, insecure contracts are rife across the sector. People Before
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The Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Green Party government’s new carbon budgets will soon be passed by the Dáil. These budgets map out how they plan to reduce carbon emissions over the coming decade. But as Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues, these proposals are totally lacking in ambition and will leave
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The government is seeking to raise the state pension age, claiming that the fact that people are living longer is creating a “Pension Time Bomb”. Bríd Smith TD dismantles this claim and argues that the attack on the retirement age is part of the wider attack on all workers. The
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The Irish establishment are at great pains to convince the public that the Southern state is not a tax haven. In their recent book Tax Haven Ireland, Kieran Allen and Brian O’Boyle puncture this myth. This interview with Kieran Allen appeared first in a Czech online publication, Voxpot. What
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As Russia increases its presence in the Crimean Peninsula and its sabre rattling towards Ukraine, NATO is being portrayed by the establishment as a necessary protector. But can NATO be a positive force? John Molyneux looks at the history of NATO intervention and argues that its function is not to
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Kate Hoey, ex-Labour MP and now Baroness, sparked controversy recently with a complaint that nationalists are apparently ‘dominating’ professional vocations in the North. Historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh cuts through this latest sectarian discourse. Kate Hoey, the former Labour MP and now ermine-clad reactionary, has today (7 January) published
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Margaret Thatcher despised the trade union movement. She set out to dismantle the power of unionised workers, who she referred to as ‘the enemy within’. Even before she took office as Prime Minister, she said that the Conservatives should, “neglect no opportunity to erode trade union membership”. Once in power,
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With an anti-choice DUP Bill to be voted upon at Stormont next week, Sinn Fein have once again come under scrutiny for their position on the issue. The Bill would restrict access to abortion in cases of severe foetal abnormality. Terminations in these cases were permitted under the legislation
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Seán Binder, alongside 22 other humanitarians, faces criminal charges related to his life-saving work helping to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean. Declan Owens argues that Greece is attempting to criminalise solidarity. In 2017 and 2018, Seán Binder, a 27-year-old Irish citizen, worked with the humanitarian organisation Emergency
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“His name was Ahmad al-Hasan and he was 19. He wanted to continue his education, which he began in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. But his dreams will never come true.” Ahmad al-Hasan’s body was found in the Bug River in eastern Poland after he drowned
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Opinion polls show growing support for Sinn Féin, particularly among workers and young people. The political establishment are frightened and many are asking: what would a Sinn Féin led government look like? Kieran Allen gives his assessment. The question is hardly asked in the North. Sinn Féin is viewed as