Ecosocialism
Small farmers are fighting back across rural Ireland and, as Brian O’Boyle argues, their campaign is crucial to the development of a ‘just transition’ towards a fairer and more ecologically sustainable economy. The Beef Plan Movement (BPM) was established in the winter of 2018 to protect the livelihoods of
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RHI was a colossal waste in public money, yet no action has been taken against its architects, and the results of the inquiry into the scheme remain in limbo. In this feature piece, Rebel takes a look back at the ‘cash for ash’ scandal, and some of the revelations that
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200 years ago a protest in Manchester demanding democratic reform was viciously mowed down by the British establishment. Paul O’Brien—author of the newly published collection Shelley’s Revolutionary Year—takes a look at the background to the Peterloo Massacre, and the impact it had on some of the
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Was the defeat of the Irish Revolution an inevitable result of immutable national and sectarian divisions? In this close examination of the little-known surge in labour militancy in Tyrone, and its apex during the Caledon lockout of 1919, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh sheds new light on the possibilities in a
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50 years ago today, British troops were sent into the North. Matt Collins takes a look back at that moment, and the year the Troubles began. At around 5pm, 14 August, 1969, 300 troops from the 1st Battalion of the Prince of Wales’ Own Regiment of Yorkshire entered the city
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Rebel interviews Ian Angus — editor of the journal Climate & Capitalism, and author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth, and A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism — about the pressing need to develop the politics of ecosocialism in the world today.
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In the wake of a spate of mass shootings in the US, Stewart Smyth looks at the politics behind these massacres, and the double-standards of a racist American system when it comes to “domestic terrorism”. In the space a week, three were shot dead at a food festival in
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Aislinn Shanahan Daly looks at the limitations of Fine Gael’s Gender Pay Gap Bill, and the cynical way the party has sought to co-opt the struggle for gender equality. Fine Gael would have us believe that they are the new face of a changing and liberalising Ireland. After
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The urgent need to resist Boris Johnson does not mean we should be uncritical of elites in Brussels. As Kieran Allen explains, we can oppose both. In 2008, the Irish electorate voted by 53% to 47% to reject the Lisbon Treaty of the EU. The campaign against it was mainly
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What can we learn from Boris Johnson’s first week as Prime Minister? Fiona Ferguson takes a look. Boris Johnson never was one for modesty. As a boy, he declared his life ambition to become no less than world king. Time yet, of course, for the pampered Etonian to realise
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Workers have begun an occupation of the Harland & Wolff shipyard in East Belfast, taking control of the site until their jobs are safe. Cailín McCaffery reports from a gathering of hundreds who turned out to support the protest at short notice. Harland and Wolff lies on the edges of
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An “insanitary mob of vicious delinquents” run British society. Eamonn McCann doesn’t mince words in this assessment of Boris and the Old Etonians at Westminster. Old Etonian Boris Johnson defeated Old Etonian Jeremy Hunt to take over as British Prime Minister. This proves (a) that Tories have no taste,