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With Bernie Sanders an early front runner in the Democratic primaries, Paul Le Blanc looks at what this could mean for the wider socialist struggle. Politics is like a multi-dimensional chess game. I am reminded of that as I look at and think about the current Democratic Party primary
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This month’s General Election was a political earthquake. The cycle of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael rule has been broken. Kieran Allen examines the reasons as to why this occurred. Southern Ireland has experienced a political earthquake. The two main conservative parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, between them
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The dismal performance of the far right in this month’s General Election was a positive victory in the fight against racism. That fight, however, is not over. John Molyneux takes a look. ‘The rise of the far right’ has been an all too familiar headline over the last few
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52 years ago the Memphis sanitation workers began to strike and Martin Luther King’s support for their action would later see him assassinated. Here, Stewart Smyth reflects on recent events in Memphis surrounding MLK Day. The third Monday in January, a federal public holiday, marks the memory of civil
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As the anniversary of Bloody Sunday approaches, Eamonn McCann looks back at the Amritsar massacre, drawing parallels between two murderous atrocities at the hands of the British Empire. Sunday, April 13th 1919 was the day the decline and fall of the British Empire became obvious and undeniable. This was the
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The global economy has been expanding in the last number of years, but growth rates have been sluggish. Where is capitalism going? Socialist economist Brian O’Boyle gives his take. The global economy continues to present a conundrum to mainstream economists. In the positive column, they can point to the
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Donald Trump’s missile strike on Iran’s top general could have set the Middle East on fire. Memet Uludag analyses the impact and calls for international solidarity. The January 3 US missile strike near Baghdad Airport which killed the Iranian top General Qassem Suleimani sent shock waves around the
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As we move into a new decade, Eamonn McCann gives his hopes for the struggles to come. Twenty nineteen will be remembered as a year of setbacks and disappointment — but also of fight-back and hope. Right-wing demagogues are riding high in the US, Britain, much of Latin America
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In the aftermath of Labour’s crushing defeat in last week’s general election, much of the blame has been attributed to Jeremy Corbyn. Brian O’Boyle argues that the problems for the Labour Party go much deeper. Labour’s result in last week’s general election was the worst
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With racist speech and sentiments coming more to the fore in current Irish politics, campaigner John Molyneux takes a look at how racist ideas and language work today. Understanding racist discourse will help us fight it. The first thing to note is that virtually everybody, including those who actively promote
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Two decades on from the introduction of Direct Provision and the ongoing deportation of asylum seekers, Memet Uludag argues why this inhumane system should be abolished once and for all. The Irish Times is running a series of pieces on the Direct Provision System and related issues.[1]Yet again,
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Last week former Brazilian president Lula was dramatically released from prison. Sean Purdy, a member of the Socialism and Freedom Party in São Paulo, looks at the implications for politics in the country. Brazil’s ex-president, Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula), founder and leader of the Workers’ Party