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In her own words, People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith defends her recent criticisms of a High Court ruling which have generated a media flurry. There was a lot of mock outrage from the great and good, as well as those in the legal professions, about comments I made recently.
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Housing expert Stewart Smyth argues that the current NI Housing Bill represents a re-privatisation of housing associations, with less control and regulation but the same amount of public money. Devolution was supposed to allow local decision-making to fit local circumstances. Housing is one of those devolved responsibilities that
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In this first installment of a two-part series, historian Brian Kelly looks at the origins of the myth of Irish slavery, arguing that how we approach this period of history has revelance for the movements of today. Recently, social media has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about ‘Irish
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John Molyneux dismantles the idea that the Green Party in government with the right can bring any real change for the working class in Ireland. One of the many reasons for reading Marx is that he shows, especially in his great work Capital, that the reason why capitalism operates it
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All across the world the Black Lives Matter movement has generated long-overdue debates over the legacies of racism. With some on the right trying to muddy the waters, Eamonn McCann takes a look at Irish racism in the US. Reacting to Black Lives Matter, some Irish social media sites
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As Westminster ratifies abortion regulations for the North of Ireland, Goretti Horgan takes on the arguments made in Stormont which sought to restrict the regulations for reasons relating to disability and severe foetal impairments. The regulations governing when abortion is legal in the North of Ireland have now passed all
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Governments across the world are making decisions about to how to pay for the COVID-19 crisis. Economist Brian O’Boyle assesses the options open to the Irish state and argues that despite the spin, the money exists for a progessive alternative to the austerity our leaders favour. The Irish
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The current pandemic has thrown a long overdue spotlight on our health system, and how we care for people more generally. Physiotherapist Maeve O’Neill looks at the changes needed for a more healthy – and humane – society. Only a few months ago in the North, healthcare unions were on industrial
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Ten years on since the Saville Inquiry, Eamonn McCann argues that despite the attempts to close the case on Bloody Sunday, the full truth of what happened in Derry on the 30th of January 1972 is still being covered up. June 15 is the 10th anniversary of publication of the
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Paul le Blanc continues the Revolutionaries Reviewed series by assessing Leon Trotsky, a leading revolutionary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Born in 1879, he was the commander of the Red Army and the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, and was later killed by Stalinist agents whilst living in exile in
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As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society. Seven Days that Changed Everything By Memorial Day, May 25, many of us had
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The COVID-19 crisis presented a greater threat to Palestinians than most and, as Sara O’Rourke writes, that threat was worsened by the purposeful actions of an apartheid Israeli state. In Palestine, it is almost 3 months since places like the West Bank and others entered lock-down. A