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It is world mental health day and the Health Department in the North have unveiled a new strategy, but according to Gerard Stewart, it will take much more than sticking plaster to address the societal causes of of mental ill-health. The North of Ireland has the highest prevalence of
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Ahead of the September 20 Climate Strike, Eoghan Ó’Ceannabháin breaks down the failings of the far right and the liberal establishment in tackling global climate change. The 2018 report from the International Panel on Climate Change gave us 12 years to cut global emissions in half, propelling the issue
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Capita has been widely criticised due their role in our draconian welfare system. Gerard Stewart takes a look at the background of the company, and their increasing encroachment into public services. Capita is the largest provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) across local and national government services in the UK,
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As the world watches the Amazon burn, Fiona Ferguson argues that the September 20 climate strike is more urgent than ever to challenge the global climate crisis. The Amazon is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. Heatwaves have shocked Europe and parts of India are life-threateningly flooded, while
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Small farmers are fighting back across rural Ireland and, as Brian O’Boyle argues, their campaign is crucial to the development of a ‘just transition’ towards a fairer and more ecologically sustainable economy. The Beef Plan Movement (BPM) was established in the winter of 2018 to protect the livelihoods of
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RHI was a colossal waste in public money, yet no action has been taken against its architects, and the results of the inquiry into the scheme remain in limbo. In this feature piece, Rebel takes a look back at the ‘cash for ash’ scandal, and some of the revelations that
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200 years ago a protest in Manchester demanding democratic reform was viciously mowed down by the British establishment. Paul O’Brien—author of the newly published collection Shelley’s Revolutionary Year—takes a look at the background to the Peterloo Massacre, and the impact it had on some of the
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Was the defeat of the Irish Revolution an inevitable result of immutable national and sectarian divisions? In this close examination of the little-known surge in labour militancy in Tyrone, and its apex during the Caledon lockout of 1919, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh sheds new light on the possibilities in a
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50 years ago today, British troops were sent into the North. Matt Collins takes a look back at that moment, and the year the Troubles began. At around 5pm, 14 August, 1969, 300 troops from the 1st Battalion of the Prince of Wales’ Own Regiment of Yorkshire entered the city
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Rebel interviews Ian Angus — editor of the journal Climate & Capitalism, and author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth, and A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism — about the pressing need to develop the politics of ecosocialism in the world today.
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With abortion rights nearly won for the north, Fiona Ferguson argues why it is more important than ever to march at Rally For Choice this year. It was hard not to celebrate on July 9, when Westminster voted to decriminalise abortion in the north after October 21st, unless the Assembly
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In the wake of a spate of mass shootings in the US, Stewart Smyth looks at the politics behind these massacres, and the double-standards of a racist American system when it comes to “domestic terrorism”. In the space a week, three were shot dead at a food festival in