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As calls come for unions to shake off passivity in the the face of recent workers’ struggle, one touted alternative is to break away to form more left-wing red unions. As part of our Power in a Union series, Eddie Conlon argues that while this desire is at times
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As Eamon Ryan’s Climate Action Bill is due to go before the Dáil, Bríd Smith TD exposes its multiple weaknesses and argues that it will do very little to tackle the planet’s greatest crisis. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill (the Climate Bill) was supposed to
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In a piece originally published in June of this year in New Politics, Haley Pessin argues that this year’s Movement for Black Lives in the USA is of historic importance. Late May and early June saw the biggest wave of mass rebellion in the United States since the 1960s.
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As the deadline approaches for an agreement between the UK and the EU, the first of two articles by economist Brian O’Boyle looks at the roots of a Tory Brexit and assesses the current state of play. Boris Johnson’s political career is inextricably tied to Brexit. When David
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Using the US as a case-study, Hadas Thier explains how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the failures of for-profit healthcare, and argues for a democratically planned economy. This piece was originally published on Jacobin. One April morning at 4 AM, the chief physician at Baystate Health in Massachusetts
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Originally published on the Global Ecosocialist Network. “The mud! Ye gods, imagine a cart full of whitish mud, filled with minutest shells, poured all wet and sticky and slimy on to some clean planks” – Lord George Campbell of the HMS Challenger. At approximately 6 o’clock in the morning on
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Recent headlines have celebrated Stormont’s plan to shake up housing. Housing expert Stewart Smyth analyses the announcement and argues that worryingly, privatisation looms large. There was a lot of fanfare recently when Minister for Communities, Carál Ní Chuilín (Sinn Féin), announced what she called the “most radical shake-up
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Fifty years ago this week, the trial of the Mangrove Nine began. Somhairle Mag Uidhir reviews its recent dramatisation by Steve McQueen, highlighting the structural racism and community struggle the case embodies. Within the wood-panelled and imperial walls of London’s Old Bailey, nine Black women and men took
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The Polish Government has recently introduced a blanket ban on abortion, sparking mass protests. Alexandra Day reports. The right-wing Polish government has been making increasingly repressive attacks on people’s rights this year. The Catholic, far-right party ‘Law and Justice’ (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – PiS) is the largest party
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Marxism 2020 is Ireland’s largest socialist conference. While Covid prevents us from meeting in person this year, it has also made the need to understand the world around us even greater. Join incredible activists and writers for from across Ireland, and around the world, for Marxism 2020, as we
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The Covid-19 pandemic has seen domestic violence rates soar. Ahead of UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th, Marnie Holborow explains why it is time to challenge the lack of state support for survivors of domestic violence. Governments have relied on individual households
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The Inquiry in London into undercover policing has shown how far we still have to travel to find the truth about Bloody Sunday. The remit of the “SpyCops” Inquiry under Lord Mitting doesn’t extend to Bloody Sunday. But the overlap between the issues raised has been striking. The Mitting