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Seán Mitchell pays tribute to John Molyneux. On the 10th of December 2022, the revolutionary Marxist tradition tragically lost of one its finest proponents. 74 years old, 54 of them as a revolutionary, John Molyneux—thinker, writer and revolutionary activist—was a long-distance runner on the road to a
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On the anniversary of 5 October 1968, when Civil Rights activists marched to Derry and were brutally attacked by the RUC, precipitating the birth of The People’s Democracy, Matt Collins has written an extensive piece exclusively for Rebel, covering the events of 50 years ago and the whitewashing of
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50 years after the civil rights movements in the North and the US, Dr Stewart Smyth reviews the one off RTÉ special ‘1968: The Long March’ and analyses the particular narrative of the civil rights marches that s presented. The RTE documentary drawing parallels between the US Civil Rights marches
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The events of May ‘68 in France were an unprecedented eruption of people power that shook the world. In the next installment of our 1968 series, TCD student Aislinn Shanahan Daly looks back at the student uprising in France that changed Europe forever. The events of May ‘68 in France
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In the 1960s American capitalism seemed to be stronger than ever. In a few short years, however, the country was gripped by upheaval and protest. In the second edition of our ’68 Legacies series, award winning historian Brian Kelly argues that “even regimes which appear stable and impregnable over long
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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