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As the Stormont Executive permits production lines to reopen and teases an end to lockdown, PBP MLA Gerry Carroll says profit is being put before community health. We must be extremely wary of those whose focus now is ‘ending the lockdown’ before we have even the basic measures in place
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Agency work in the Northern Ireland Civil Service: A case study in the politics behind privatisation, de-unionisation, and the need to end precarious work. As the COVID-19 crisis exposes the scale of employment precarity, this need becomes ever more urgent. Precarious work is nothing new. Workers hovered just
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“We have a choice, to die of hunger or to die of the virus”. In Latin America, as elsewhere, the health crisis has exposed the brutal realities of the global capitalist system. Its economic, social, cultural, environmental, as well as sanitary impact has followed the same patterns and exposed the
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“Lord have mercy, it’s the cops!” – Van Morrison ACAB was once so popular there were fellows had it tattooed on their knuckles. But the PR is now so pervasive, and nervousness presses in so closely, that you could find yourself in bother just for spelling it out – All Coppers
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Before the Coronavirus hit, we were already living through a mental health crisis. Aislinn Shanahan Daly looks at how the pandemic exacerbates this precarious situation, and argues that solidarity will be more important than ever in the coming period. “Indeed the combined effects of fear, confinement, income loss and the
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The Coronavirus is already causing great economic difficulties, and the situation is expected to get worse. Jobs will be a central question of any recovery, and as Stewart Smyth argues, in order to protect workers, we will need a 4-day week. While we are all trying to comprehend the
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With domestic violence surging because of lockdown measures, Steph Hanlon looks at the response of the Irish government, and their role in debilitating the support sector before this crisis. As cities and countries entered COVID-19 lockdown, incidents of domestic violence spiked. In France, reports of domestic violence have increased
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To marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin we’re sharing the latest installment of Paul LeBlanc’s series Revolutionaries Reviewed, on Vladimir Lenin – a central leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew tsarist rule and attempted to bring about a new socialist society. Vladimir Ilyich
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The Irish Government and its allies are presenting a very coherent narrative about the COVID-19 crisis. But as John Molyneux argues, this narrative is constructed to restore the crumbling position of both Fine Gael and the wider establishment. The Irish Government and their allies are presenting a very coherent
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In the first of a series of Revolutionaries Reviewed, Paul LeBlanc looks back at the life and politics of Rosa Luxemburg. Born in Poland in 1871, Rosa became a rabble rousing activist. Eventually, she ended up in Germany as one of the leading revolutionaries in the German Social Democratic Party,
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As Maeve McGrath explains, the massive global shift to lockdown has placed added pressure on those fulfilling unpaid caring roles, in shining a light on gender inequality at the heart of society. The state under capitalism has always relied overwhelmingly on women to carry out these roles – caring for the
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Nobody wanted Boris Johnson dead. At the same time, hardly anybody would have rent their garments in grief if word had come that he’d burbled his last. Latest reports say he’s not entirely out of the woods. Those who had been anticipating his demise with inappropriate relish may