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Alexandra Day assesses last Saturday’s anti-immigrant march and the counter-protest in Dublin, arguing for a class-based politics that takes on both the Government and the far right. It is deeply disheartening to witness around five thousand people marching through Dublin under the banner ‘Ireland for the
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There have been glowing tributes paid to Pope Francis in the wake of his death—including from some of his most bitter adversaries. Brian Kelly examines Francis’s legacy in attempting to ‘renew’ a scandal-ridden church and re-position Catholicism as a ‘progressive’ force in a global order marked
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Eli Kane explores anti-Semitism today, arguing that its political weaponisation by Zionism obscures the real and dangerous threat from growing far right and fascist ideologies. Anti-Semitism, perhaps the form of racism most readily associated with genocide, naturally raises alarm bells wherever it appears. One of the oldest forms
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Adrienne Wallace looks at the renewed assault on gender rights and how we can build a fight against it in the era of tech billionaires. “We’ve great women and we want them breeding. Our women are only breeding 1.5 or 1.6 children. That’s shocking for an
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Over the past year anti-immigration sentiment has been fanned by far right parties and the Government. Brian O’Boyle reviews the tactics used to scapegoat migrants for government failures and argues for principled anti-racist politics in the upcoming election. Simon Harris became the Irish Taoiseach in April 2024,
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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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The new year has opened in much the same vein as the old year, with far right agitators stirring up protests and hatred of migrants across the country. In this article, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin examines what the anti-fascist movement have gotten right and wrong over the past couple of
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Adrienne Wallace looks at how the far-right weaponises the idea of protecting women in order to scapegoat migrant men. Since far right groups began their most recent period of agitation against refugees, they have followed a familiar playbook. They began with claims of false scarcity – “Ireland Is Full” and
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In the first part of our Rebel series on Fascism and the Far-Right, Kieran Allen explains what fascism is. We can date the start of fascism precisely. It began on Sunday March 23 1919 when Mussolini formed the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento. If we look at some key dates
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In the wake of recent attacks on migrants, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that we need to counter the far right on the streets in order to defeat it. The attack on a camp in Ashtown shows us the new dangers we are facing in the wake of recent racist agitation
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Over the past week, the Irish government has indicated that it no longer has space to accommodate any more Ukrainian refugees. But is this really a refugee crisis? Or is the real problem, as Memet Uludağ argues, the abject failure of this government to tackle the housing crisis? Last week
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The recent Italian elections saw the far right Brothers of Italy, headed by Georgia Meloni, emerge victorious. Giulio di Basilio assesses Italy’s new far right coalition and how can the Left can confront it. Italy will soon have its first female prime minister. Ironically, it will be someone at