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In the third instalment of Kieran Allen’s Brexit pamphlet, he discusses the implications for partition, the possibility of a hard border an the impact of capitalism in decay. Part 2 is available here. Partition and a Hard Border Who wants a hard border in Ireland? Not even Arlene Foster,
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As far-right groups try to use a UN migration pact to agitate in Ireland, Eoghan Ó’Ceannabháin argues why it is important, now more than ever, that the left must be unambiguously united in anti-racist activity. On December 6th, the far-right ‘Irexit Freedom’ party called a “silent
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In the second part of Kieran Allen’s Brexit pamphlet, he explores the nature of the EU, from militarisation to neoliberalism and attacks on migrants, to ask ‘is the EU progressive?’ Part 1 is available here. The Irish political elite are riding a wave of Europhilia. The majority of people
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Kieran Allen, National Secretary of People Before Profit, has written a comprehensive pamphlet which seeks to look at the class dynamics that brought about Brexit and suggest policies that the Left should advocate in response. The pamphlet will be published in parts on Rebel, beginning here with part one. A
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At Marxism 2018, Fiona Ferguson joined a panel of international speakers to discuss the return of socialism. We have published her speech in full where she outlines the kind of socialism we need today, here in Ireland and beyond. I think that it should be obvious to anyone who has
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1. At Marxism 2018, Cailín McCaffery gave a powerful speech to a packed auditorium about the lack of abortion rights in the North and the need for a new Ireland. Her call for change was met with loud and determined applause. We have published the full transcript of her talk
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Marxism is Ireland’s largest socialist conference and this year was the largest. Michael Collins gives his report of an inspiring conference which had young people and women to the fore, and ideas aplenty for the fight for a better world. Eamonn McCann was asked a pertinent question during a
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This is the first of two articles by John Molyneux, based on his talk ‘The Future Of Marxism’ at Marxism 2018, which outlined a number of issues which Marxists need to address in the coming period. Part 1 raises the question of the changing nature of the working class. The
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Longtime anti-racism campaigner John Molyneux breaks down the horrible history of racism in the ruling classes and why it is important in the fight back against particular forms of racism, such as anti-Travellerism, to understand where it comes from. Liberals often tend to believe that racism is primarily
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Eamonn McCann, for Rebel, argues that Sinn Féin have become masters of saying one thing and doing another. Theresa May dropped into Belfast on November 27 – part of her stumble across the land trying to sell her mish-mash “solution” to Brexit. At Queen’s University she spoke with groups