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Millions around the globe tuned in to Joe Biden’s inauguration yesterday, hoping for a reprieve from the horrors of his predecessor. Kieran Allen discusses the context of the transition as well as the movements necessary to put out the dangerous far-right fires lit by Trump. Joe Biden was
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Fifty years ago this week, the trial of the Mangrove Nine began. Somhairle Mag Uidhir reviews its recent dramatisation by Steve McQueen, highlighting the structural racism and community struggle the case embodies. Within the wood-panelled and imperial walls of London’s Old Bailey, nine Black women and men took
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In the wake of the heavy-handed policing of Debenhams workers and Black Lives Matter protesters, Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn takes apart the myth that the police are there to simply ‘protect and serve’. In Ireland today there is an argument put forward by many about the Gardaí and it goes
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As part of the Revolutionaries Reviewed series, Bill Mullen argues the works of Trinidadian socialist and revolutionary C.L.R. James help us grapple with the key debates in the Black Lives Matter movement, and argues the need for anti-racist organising to be at the centre of the struggle
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150 days ago, Keir Starmer assumed the leadership of the British Labour Party. Jonas Patrick Liston assesses his time in charge, and argues that despite his early left-rhetoric, it didn’t take long for him to show his true colours. Only nine months ago, Boris Johnson’s Tories won
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As the threat of an Irish far-right continues to grow, Joe Daly takes a look at some of their recent tactics, from attacking Direct Provision residents to shamelessly scaremongering over so-called ‘family values’. While imprisoned by Mussolini’s fascist regime between 1926 and 1937, the great Italian Marxist
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The recent treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters by the PSNI laid bare the institutional racism of the ‘New Northern Ireland’. In a piece which takes stock of the inaction of Stormont over more than a decade, Rebel exposes the depth of the problem. On Tuesday 9 June 2020, Justice
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John Hume deserves his place in history as a man of peace. But the sentimentalised view of him presented in most of the media in the days since his death is far from the full truth. I knew John for decades. We disagreed about politics, frequently in angry tones. But
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As thousands of BLM protesters continue to resist armed Federal agents on the streets of Portland, Rebel speaks to Bob Bacon, an activist on the ground. Rebel: Just last week, it was announced that the Federal Troops will be leaving Portland’s streets. This seems like a massive blow for
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In Part 2 of his Ireland and Slavery series, Brian Kelly assesses Ireland’s involvement in the international slave trade, arguing that the country’s colonial subjection has too often been omitted from the analysis. Part 1, ‘Irish Slaves’: Debunking the Myth, can be read here. The first instalment in
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In this first installment of a two-part series, historian Brian Kelly looks at the origins of the myth of Irish slavery, arguing that how we approach this period of history has revelance for the movements of today. Recently, social media has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about ‘Irish
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As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society. Seven Days that Changed Everything By Memorial Day, May 25, many of us had