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As we draw closer to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day White House visit, Somhairle Mag Uidhir argues that Ireland is uniquely placed to take a stand with the Palestinian people and boycott the visit. The biggest event on the Irish-US calendar is unquestionably St. Patrick’s Day.
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January 21st marks 100 years since Lenin’s death. Kieran Allen why, a century on, there is still a huge amount that we can learn from Lenin. Lenin once suggested that when revolutionaries are alive, they are vilified, but after they die, are treated as harmless icons. In his own
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In the wake of last Saturday’s enormous Palestine solidarity march, Conor Reddy assesses the growth of movement, the challenges it faces and the strategies we need to bring about full Palestinian liberation. Saturday’s march for Palestine in Dublin was enormous. Perhaps the biggest seen since the peak of
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As public sector workers take to the picket lines today, Olcán Shaw explains how Stormont has failed them and why they are right to take matters into their own hands. “Even if it were fully functioning, our Executive does not have the resources to tackle this problem.” On 25 April
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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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2023 closed in the United States with the emergence of the most significant antiwar campaigning in two decades. Joe Allen writes. Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza since Hamas’ October 7th attack has produced the most significant antiwar campaigning since the election of Barack Obama in 2008. For the first
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As the housing crisis rages across this island Stewart Smyth assesses the need for a state construction company and welcomes the announcement of new NIHE homes being built in the North. However, major battles on housing lie ahead. Irish Housing Minister, Darragh O’Brien, is the consummate bourgeois politician. While
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Germany has been one of the most vociferous supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Maurice Coakley explains the confluence of factors that have led German leaders to proclaim “Never Again” when it comes to the horrors of the Holocaust, even as they cheer on the horrors of the new
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ON HYPOCRISY Students and staff in a number of Irish universities have demanded their institutions speak out against genocidal attacks by Israel on Palestinian people. The response exposes the hypocrisy that often lies behind ‘Western liberal values’. Take UCD, as an example. In a response to a letter signed by
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Israel’s occupation and colonisation of Palestine has aimed to erase everything about Palestinian life, land and culture. As Alexandra Day explains, this has also involved the imposition of a kind of climate apartheid and attempts to erase even Palestine’s nature. In the decades since 1948, apartheid and ethnic
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As Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza continues Stewart Smyth takes stock of the means by which racism has been used, both historically and in the present day, to dehumanise people and justify their slaughter. Human beings are not naturally predisposed to killing each other. I know that statement appears
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Kiran Emrich reviews the new Martin Scorsese film about a little know series of murders that the Osage Nation suffered in the early part of the last century. While spotlighting these horrible events, the film ultimately fails to make clear the broader connections to the structural racism embedded with capitalism.