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The adoption registration scandal has reopened a dark episode in our recent past. Mike Milotte—an award winning journalist and author of Banished Babies: The Secret History of Ireland’s Baby Export Business—explores the background to this scandal, and the implications for an Irish state still unwilling to fully
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Pro Choice activist Fiona Ferguson replies to Nelson McCausland’s latest diatribe against the Left. Nelson McCausland has gotten himself in a bit of fluster. The former DUP politician—best known for his role in the infamous ‘Red Sky scandal’ as a Stormont minister—has taken to the pages of
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Is the North more polarised than ever? Belfast City Councillor Matt Collins gives his take on the possibility for class politics in the North On April 7th, a small but remarkable rally took place in Belfast; when hundreds of workers and their supporters held a joint rally on the peace
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To launch Rebel’s ’68 Legacies series, author and socialist John Molyneux takes us through his experience with this extraordinary year. ‘It was the best of times! It was the worst of times!’ No! Actually it was the best of times—closer to Wordsworth (‘Bliss was it in that dawn
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Marnie Holborow examines the significance of Saturday’s political earthquake. The decisive win for Repeal the Eighth in Ireland’s referendum is truly a watershed event. The media, commentators and politicians had drummed home how divisive and close the result would be. Yet all regions, men and women, across social
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Goretti Horgan, a socialist and long-time campaigner for abortion rights, examines the hypocrisy behind the anti-choice brigade in the run up to the Repeal referendum. If you want to know what drives many anti-abortion activists, just take a look at the Iona Institute and what it is
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Sarah Jaffe—author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and a journalist covering labour issues—has been in Ireland reporting on the campaign to Repeal the 8th. During a break in her travels, she took time to write for Rebel on why she feels so deeply about this movement. To
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With one week to go until the referendum to Repeal the 8th amendment, People Before Profit Cllr Melisa Halpin takes up the question of what we can do in this crucial period to ensure the Yes vote wins. With seven days to go and polls showing a tightening gap between
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One week before the referendum, Becca Bor caught up with key activists from the Repeal campaign, including actor, author and comedian Tara Flynn, People Before Profit TD Brid Smith, Dublin City Cllr Emma Hendrick and Traveller community rep Eileen Flynn to discuss the challenges of the Repeal campaign so far
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Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have benefited from some recovery in the polls, but as the confidence and supply arrangement appears to be coming to an end, Brian O’Boyle asks, can the centre hold? Delivering his budget speech in 2017, the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donoghue, stated that “those
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Twenty years after the Belfast Agreement, politics in the North remains stuck in the rut of communal division. In the first edition of a new regular column for Rebel, Eamonn McCann explores why the Agreement failed to deliver. It is easy to forget now that the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement
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Watching the Royal Wedding? Rebel isn’t. John Newsinger, author of ‘The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire’, gives his take on the horrible history of the house of Windsor. There is something particularly depressing about seeing large numbers of working people, many who have