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Raymond Deane explains the background to Germany’s unrepenting pro-Zionist stance. Germany was unified in 1871 under the chancellorship of Otto von Bismarck. He saw the attainment of German hegemony in Europe in terms of Realpolitik, the pragmatic negotiation of issues between the state and its neighbours. In 1890
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Barry Sweeney analyses the recent attempts by Giorgia Melloni’s party to criminalise dissent and maximise fascist control in the Italian parliament. Sweeney paints a terrifying picture of one of the most egregiously anti-democratic lurches on the European continent today. The Italian Constitution, enacted on January 1, 1948, contains
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The decision to erect chain link fences along our canals and chase our homeless around the city is a purposeful and cruel political choice that needs to be opposed. Nathan Ó Broin analyses enclosure and gentrification in Dublin making the case for local resistance and a People’s City. The
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Catherine Curran Vigier analyses the second round of the recent French election, a clear path for a left government hangs in the balance and needs a mass-movement to get it across the line. After thousands poured onto the streets of France to express their relief and joy at seeing
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With one of the worst debate performances in recent history, Biden’s campaign stands on shaky ground. Will the democrats decide it’s safer to dump genocide Joe and if so what will the implications be? President Joe Biden’s catastrophic performance in the first U.S. presidential debate on
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REVIEW: Our Flag Stays Red, by Phil Piratin. Reviewed by Mike Lovett As the far right and fascists across Europe, including in Ireland, gain electoral ground Mike Lovett looks at a successful anti-fascist experience from history. He reviews Our Flag Stays Red an account of how the fascist Blackshirts
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Ahead of tomorrow’s Westminster elections, Fiona Ferguson, the People Before Profit candidate for North Belfast, explains why we need a radical break from both the Tories and the establishment parties in the North. People will take to the polls across the North of Ireland tomorrow for a snap Westminster
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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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Eamon Ryan announced his retirement this week and a leadership context to replace him is under way. Owen McCormack assesses Ryan’s significant service to the neoliberal State and argues that the Green Party’s coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has been a disaster for the climate movement.
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Catherine Curran Vigier explains the social crisis following Le Pen’s electoral victory and Macron’s sudden calling of an election. She argues that the unity of the left – the New Popular Front – is a step forward in the fight against the far right but that it needs a strong
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With the British Tories promising to “Stop the Boats” by implementing their Rwanda policy, the Irish government leaving open such a possibility and the far right in Ireland agitating for a similar policy, Stewart Smyth, analyses examples of the policy in other jurisdictions. He shows the policy is a continual
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John Lannon of Shannonwatch makes the decisive case for evicting the US military from Ireland once and for all. The Irish government needs to go beyond symbolic gestures to help people of Gaza. As the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement points out, one of the main reasons Israel is able