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The horrific treatment of elderly residents at the Dunmurry Manor care home has shocked many. But as Eamonn McCann argues, this revelation is not an isolated incident but the latest example of a scandalous system of institutionalised abuse. Among key things to keep in mind about the “horrific catalogue of
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of James Connolly, Shaun Harkin (author of the James Connolly Reader) guest edits Rebel for a day. Below Shaun takes a look at the politics of this great socialist. James Connolly was an exemplary working class rebel. He had grown up in
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In the wake of the landslide vote to Repeal, Kieran Allen looks at how the vote was won and what else can be achieved by people power in ‘conservative’ Ireland. The huge Yes vote to repeal the 8th Amendment has finally put an end to the myth that the Irish
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Connolly joined the trade union movement in Edinburgh in the late 1880’s. He was an active trade unionist in Scotland, Ireland and the United States and believed unions were the most effective means of challenging poverty and building working class solidarity. Not just that however, Connolly advocated a form