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The worst sectarian rioting in years has broken out in Northern Ireland and the mainstream media is blaming ‘both sides’. While this might have the appearance of fairness and balance, it misses the deeper causes. According to Loyalist spokespersons, the riots started over the failure of the PSNI to prosecute
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People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll, who was was on the ground encouraging youths to desist from violence last night in Belfast, criticises the ‘hypocrisy’ of a Stormont Executive who have funded, catered to, and legitimised loyalist paramilitaries while punishing working class communities. Today, just like last night, I stand
Ecosocialism
In Part Two, John Molyneux looks at the limitations of state-planned economies operating within the capitalist system, and makes the ecosocialist case for the degrowth of some industries and growth of others. Read Part One here. Any discussion of growth or degrowth under socialism depends on one’s conception
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Ireland has a long history of failing women. Despite tokenistic gestures and occasional calls from establishment politicians for more “girl bosses”, little has changed and less has been done to compensate for past failings. The Irish government recently retraumatised survivors of the Mother and Baby Homes in the latest attempt
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The government’s latest Climate Action Bill may pacify some, but Bríd Smith argues the legislation goes nowhere near far enough to tackle the fossil fuel industries and growth-addicted economy at the heart of our climate crisis. To much fanfare, PR spin and grand rhetoric, the Government have unveiled
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When RTÉ puts on a special programme about a united Ireland, you know that big changes are underway. The partition of Ireland is now under question. RTÉ, however, has a distinct agenda and that was exemplified in one dramatic incident. After Gregory Campbell had left the screen, Joe Brolly, a
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At the beginning of February Myanmar’s military staged a vicious coup. Glenda Cimino details the brutal repression being meted out to those protesting the Junta’s rule and argues for international solidarity. Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 ethnic groups, bordering India, Bangladesh,
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From Brexit to a potential border poll, Unionism is in crisis. In the first of two articles, Jim Larmour analyses the roots of some of its current difficulties. It has now been over two decades since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and the establishment of the Stormont Assembly.
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Medb McDaid and JS Titus argue that police powers need to be curtailed, not expanded, in the context of the heavy handed policing of the vigil for Sarah Everard. On Saturday 13th March we attended the vigil to remember Sarah Everard in Clapham Common. Sarah was snatched and killed on
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Two months after George Nkencho was murdered in front of his house, Memet Uludağ argues that the campaign for justice must continue and grow. It is now more than two months since George Nkencho was shot and killed in front of his house by armed Gardaí on 30 December 2020.
Covid-19
After months of pressure, the Irish government recently announced travel quarantine measures. However, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues they fall far short of what’s required, another example of the government putting the wealthy first. At the end of January 2020, US president Donald Trump declared a ban on all foreign
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After far-right trouble in Dublin, Drew Harris attempted to shift blame onto the left. John Molyneux argues that this was another example of the horseshoe ‘theory’, where the establishment creates a false equivalence between left and right. When Drew Harris said the far left were involved with the far