Ecosocialism
Maurice Coakley, in an important assessment of capitalist interstate rivalry, analyses the changing and contradictory nature of imperialism and its impact on revolt against the system. The end of the Cold War was supposed to bring a new era of peace and prosperity. Instead, we have economic turbulence, social unrest
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John Whipple reviews Hans Kundnani’s book Euro Whiteness – A critical look at the European project and its intersections with empire, racism and nationalism. The impact and ideas of race are globally important to thinking about Europe, culturally, in ways which are comparable in the importance to thinking about race
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A vote on the EU Migration Pact – delayed from last week – will take place in the Dáil today. Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argue that the Pact marks a significant escalation of the EU’s violent border policies and discuss the wider political context of increased hostility to
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With counting just finishing in the local elections, Kieran Allen analyses the results arguing that the establishment has used anti-immigrant rhetoric to shore up FF/FG votes. Meanwhile, Sinn Féin’s decline is a direct result of their long-march to the centre ground strategy and an inability to
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Housing is the number one issue in these elections. Stewart Smyth argues that the local elections represent an opportunity to put campaigners in council chambers and evict Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The housing crisis remains the central issue for most voters. Housing is consistently the number one issue for
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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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Unimaginable horrors are being inflicted on Gaza by the Israeli State, supported by Western imperialism. In the first of two articles on Palestine, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at how the ground was prepared for this genocidal attack. “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not
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The loss of hundreds of lives in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece last week has been met with sorrowful words from European leaders. But as Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Amanda Danson Brown explain, this disaster happened by design – it was created by the EU’s Fortress Europe policies.
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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
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A €1.2 billion fine against Meta has been upheld by the Court of Justice of the EU. Kieran Allen explains how the Irish Data Protection Commissioner fought tooth and nail to stop this happening. In recent months there have been a series of news reports indicating that the Irish
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The Dáil has agreed to mobilise an Irish Navy vessel in the Mediterranean as part of Operation Irini, whose main stated purpose is to uphold an arms embargo on Libya. But as Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Niamh Keady-Tabbal explain, Operation Irini is also part of the EU’s Fortress
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As Irish war hawks seek to use the Sudanese crisis to argue for a bigger military force, Kieran Allen looks at how the EU funded the warlords who crushed the Sudanese revolution and are now facing off against one another. The mainstream media is running a story about how the