Features
Joe Moore writes about the Irish government’s recent mass deportations and the wider shift to the right on immigration. On January 28th 1948, a deportation flight from California to Mexico crashed in the Los Gatos Canyon, killing 32 people. Twenty-eight of those who lost their lives were the
Features
The Irish Government is gearing up to have Ireland opt into the new EU Asylum and Migration Pact. Niaṁ Ní Mháille explains the pact and the grave consequences it is likely to have on those seeking asylum. On 27 March 2024, the Department of Justice announced that Minister Helen McEntee
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As people around the world celebrate World Refugee Day, Memet Uludağ looks at the global picture for refugees around the world. A 2015 Guardian headline said, “Record number of migrants expected to drown in Mediterranean this year”. The article explained, “in the first quarter of 2015, nearly 500 migrants have
Ecosocialism
The Irish Government survived a vote of confidence today, two days ahead of the lifting of the eviction ban. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the record of the Green Party and how they have kept this landlord Government going. When the Green Party were on the brink of entering coalition
Covid-19
As cases continue to rise, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the only way to avoid a winter crisis and future rolling lockdowns is an All-Ireland Zero Covid strategy which protects workers and puts public health first. As we approach the end of October, we are entering the kind of
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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