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Catherine Curran Vigier looks at Macron’s appointment of Michel Barnier as Prime Minister after Barnier’s party secured just 46 seats, while the Left’s Nouveau Front Populaire won 182. This outrageous appointment is an insult to the electorate which the left must challenge radically and persistently until victory.
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Jenny Maguire, SU President of Trinity College Dublin, argues that neither students’ nor workers’ unions can be apolitical. That in order to actually affect change, our unions need to be more bold and more radical not less. The student movement, as said by my predecessor Lászlo Molnarfi, ‘woke up’[1]
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Catherine Curran Vigier analyses the second round of the recent French election, a clear path for a left government hangs in the balance and needs a mass-movement to get it across the line. After thousands poured onto the streets of France to express their relief and joy at seeing
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As the solidarity movement for Gaza continues to grow across the globe, Eli Kane explains how students in Ireland have been in the lead. How the students have been making the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (DBS) a reality on Irish campuses and showing the path that labour unions and others
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The long-anticipated death of Josef Ratzinger—head of the Catholic Church between 2005 and 2013 as Pope Benedict XVI—has led to a deluge of the kind of vacuous eulogising that accompanies the passing of any leading pillar of the establishment. One can detect in some of the commentary
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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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52 years ago the Memphis sanitation workers began to strike and Martin Luther King’s support for their action would later see him assassinated. Here, Stewart Smyth reflects on recent events in Memphis surrounding MLK Day. The third Monday in January, a federal public holiday, marks the memory of civil
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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