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As the Parliamentary Standards Committee recommends Ian Paisley Junior be suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days, Eamonn McCann looks at the flurry of allegations circling the DUP and asks who benefits from the party’s apparent greed. Day after day after day, the truth comes dropping slowly.
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Two years after Trump’s outlandish election promises, economist Brian O’Boyle analyses the realities of Trump’s economic doctrine for American capitalism, his economic rivals and ordinary Americans. Donald Trump has promised he will “Make America Great Again”. In what has been a deeply reactionary presidency, he has also
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When we protest Donald Trump this week, our solidarity gives those fighting in the US hope, writes US-based socialist Elizabeth Schulte. Immigrant children separated from their families, huddled in detention at the U.S. border with Mexico. Perhaps no better picture captures the cruel reality of the Trump administration
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Jordan Peterson has garnered significant adulation, particularly by those on the right of politics. Mark Walsh explores the content of Peterson’s work, arguing that his politics are deeply rooted in a conservative agenda. Throughout much of the industrialised world, there is a pervading sense of hopelessness. Economic inequality within
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Bríd Smith TD, who has brought a Climate Emergency Bill to the Dáil, explains why recent events should be a wake up call on the need for urgent action against climate change. Our climate is changing, and changing fast. How could it not be, given the record temperatures in the
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Fine Gael are keen to present themselves as champions of women’s rights. But as Steph Hanlon argues, the role played by Simon Harris and others in the cervical screen scandal would suggest otherwise. Simon Harris, Leo Varadkar, the HSE directorate, and previous health ministers are guilty of causing the
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Arlene Foster has said she is willing to reach out to her Catholic ‘neighbours’. Is this a new dawn for politics, or the first signs of the endgame for unionism? On Sunday 24 June, DUP leader Arlene Foster boldly went where no unionist leader has been before—to a GAA
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Is the Irish State sleep-walking into a new militarised EU empire? Eamonn McCann argues that recent events would suggest so. Nobody in Ireland, North or South, can be blamed for enjoying the long-drawn-out humiliation of the likes of Theresa May, David Davis or Boris Johnston over Brexit.
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Nearly a month after the Repeal referendum, and the dust is still settling. How do we comprehend this result and where to we go from here? Rebel’s Becca Bor sat down with key activists including Sinead Kennedy (leading member of Together for Yes), Adrienne Wallace (People Before Profit), and
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John Molyneux examines how a corporate agenda is seeking to hijack equality, and how real equality can actually be won. ‘I believe in equality’ said Leo Varadkar when he was supporting Josepha Madigan in her spat with the Archbishop over the right of women to be priests. Obviously we can
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Looking back at the impact of an author much revered by Irish society today, Michael Collins discusses how James Joyce’s writings posed a threat to the status quo of his time. James Joyce is widely celebrated by the great and the good of Irish politics today. His statue adorns
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Leo Varadkar wants to portray Fine Gael as the face of liberalism in Irish politics. But as Barney Doherty explains, he would rather you didn’t know about his party’s shady origins on the far-right of the political spectrum. Fine Gael’s new leadership have invested heavily trying