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With the Irish establishment engaged in a sustained campaigned against neutrality, Kieran Allen explains the important role of the Triple Lock and why socialists shouldn’t give an inch to the warmongers. ‘A watershed moment.’ This is the repeated phrase that EU leaders use to step up military spending. And
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Marnie Holborow explains how the recently announced ReArm Europe plan, which will dramatically increase military spending across member states, reveals the EU’s pivotal role in the shifting world of imperialist rivalries. “Europe is ready to massively increase its defense spending.” Speaking at the launch of the EU plan to
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Saoirse, a Domestic Violence Service Group, last year published a report highlighting the shocking levels of violence against women in the Cherry Orchard area of Dublin and how housing insecurity can trap women in situations where their safety and lives are at risk. Hazel De Nortúin, a People Before Profit
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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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Jack Smyth assesses Trump’s strongman foreign policy and argues that we need to heap pressure on the Irish government as they prepare to bend the knee to US imperialism once again on St Patrick’s Day. In January, two US military planes carrying deportees of Colombian origin were refused
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Workers at BIMM (British and Irish Modern Music Academy) have scored a major victory against management attempts to impose draconian changes to working conditions and compulsory redundancies. Eddie Conlon explains how, with a well organised campaign and the full support of their students, the lecturers have again shown that effective
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As part of Rebel’s series of articles on the Trump phenomenon, American socialist Bill Mullen explains how Trump’s rule opens a new era of authoritarianism and has unmasked the true nature of the capitalist state. “the executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the
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As the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues unabated, Andy Storey uncovers the EU’s imperial fingerprints all over the economic and political relations in the region. In Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel Heart of Darkness, set amidst the horrific world of the Belgian Congo as
Ecosocialism
Save Lough Neagh is a coalition of activists fighting to defend the Lough from pollution and extractive exploitation. REBEL spoke to Pádraig Ó Ciaráin to discuss the roots of the ecological crisis and the campaign’s determined efforts to protect this vital body of water. Rebel: Before discussing the crisis
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Factoring in the inter-imperialist interests behind the war in Ukraine, Brian O’Boyle uncovers what drives both Trump’s MEGA doctrine and Putin’s military aggression – shoring up their rule at home in uncertain times. On 12 February, the US President, Donald Trump, shocked his European counterparts by talking
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As with many public services education is often overlooked by mainstream politics and politicians – it barely surfaced in the recent general election campaign. Here Deirdre Cronin examines the class basis to the crisis in education and argues the US teachers’ struggles of the past decade need to be replicated here.
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Brian Kelly explains how Trump has ripped away all pretence when it comes to the pursuit of US imperialist interests, arguing that these actions could provoke an anti-imperialist response far greater than his administration might have bargained for. It seems hard to believe, but just two weeks ago many