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The status of women in Irish society has changed dramatically in recent decades. Modern Ireland is a different place to the one that Eamon De Valera and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid presided over when the constitution was adopted in 1937. Marnie Holborow argues that the upcoming referendum on “women in
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On 16th August 1819 a huge crowd assembled at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, they were seeking the vote. Workers poured out the mills in Manchester and the surrounding areas and formed a peaceful protest, which was met by brutal suppression and force from local yeomanry and militia. Mark
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When the owner of Tara Mines, Boliden, took aggressive action to lay off workers last month, the workers responded swiftly by blockading the mine. John Whelan reports on the background to the dispute and how it developed. Tara Mines: A Background Tara Mines is a zinc and lead and silver
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Despite the establishment’s best efforts, there is no denying that corporations have been engaged in widespread profiteering, a phenomenon known as greedflation. Somhairle Mag Uidhir argues that we should see greedflation as a symptom as much as a cause, and that inflation is a systemic crisis requiring systemic solutions.
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With final postal ballots counted at the end of last week, it appears that the rise of the Right has been temporarily stalled in Spain. Andy Durgan takes stock of the results and what they mean for the Left in Spain. Stalemate In the general elections of 23 July, Spain’
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Iceland workers are fighting back after being shorted wages they are owed. An occupation at the Talbot Street store has now entered its second month. Bernard Mulvany reports. There were rumours and speculation that things were not well in the Irish division of supermarket chain Iceland for a while. Then
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The news that the fascist National Party has had €400,000 worth of gold stolen from a vault has prompted many questions about how they amassed such a fortune. Clara McCormack takes a look at the funding behind the far-right. The public announcement of an enormous quantity of gold
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Inequality in modern society is often seen as an inevitable fact of life that can only be mitigated against. But as Stewart Smyth explains, modern day inequality is created by the exploitation the capitalist system is built on – and with system change, it could be overcome. Income inequality is a
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The RTÉ Prime Time documentary on the treatment of calves will have horrified many people, but as Owen McCormack argues, it is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to animal welfare and destructive environmental practices in a profit driven system. On July 10th, Prime Time Investigates showed the
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This year’s COP28 summit will take place in the United Arab Emirates petrostate and will be headed up by the CEO of an oil company, Sultan Al Jaber. Colin Redmond calls this farce out for what it is and argues for a boycott of the summit. In November of
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin discusses Patrick Costello’s call to make July the 12th a public holiday in the South, arguing that the shallow form of unity being pushed by the establishment will not help us to overcome sectarianism. On Monday, Green Party TD Patrick Costello issued a statement calling for
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The Irish government has been pushing hard to undermine the traditional policy of Irish neutrality. Maurice Coakley analyses the global context of a new multi-polar world, arguing that it is more important than ever to defend neutrality. The end of the Cold War brought about by the collapse of