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Matt Collins was recently invited to participate in a discussion on “the left” at Féile an Phobail. Below is a partially edited version of his introductory remarks. The first thing I want to say is that both globally and here in Ireland, we live in extremely tumultuous times. We are
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In the wake of the Pope’s visit, Kieran Allen asks is the Irish state really prepared to challenge the power of the Catholic Church? Or will it continue to shield it from justice. On the morning of the papal visit, Leo Varadkar claimed that the majority of people did
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There is Still Time for an Ecological Revolution to Prevent Hothouse Earth: After a summer of scorching temperatures and forest fires, John Bellamy Foster—author, environmental sociologist and editor of Monthly Review—was interviewed by Fiona Ferguson about the oncoming threat posed by global warming and what is being dubbed
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As Summerhill occupation activists take over abandoned properties in Dublin, People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett details how Ireland’s housing crisis is not an accident but a policy that benefits the few over the many. The human misery being suffered by tens of thousands of women, children and
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Voices are growing within the British establishment for an amnesty for perpetrators of state violence. Eamonn McCann takes a look at the background to these demands, and the tangled web of negotiations between the British State and Sinn Féin. We are undergoing another bout of argy-bargy about the possibility
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There has been an alarming rise of the far right in the last few years. United Against Racism member John Molyneux looks at the root of this threat and how we can resist it. On a global level, the threat posed by the far right and by outright fascists is
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As the Stormont crisis trundles on, anger is beginning to grow. People Before Profit activist Fiona Ferguson gives her take. Another week, another squabble about talks at Stormont. This week, Leo Varadkar suggested that talks would reconvene soon, an act condemned by Arlene Foster who again reiterated that there would
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As Pride approaches this weekend, Eamonn McCann discusses how the DUP and inherent sectarianism at Stormont have stalled equality. The panic of the DUP about the possibility of Westminster decriminalising abortion in the North goes to the root of the party’s attitude to “moral” issues as well as to
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Politics is becoming more and more polarised. How does the radical left grow in this context? Kieran Allen offers a solution. The present social order is showing remarkable signs of decay. Slowing economic dynamism and growing geopolitical rivalries have produced a dangerous and chaotic world. Overlaid on these signs of
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How can Palestine escape from the misery imposed on it by the Israeli state? Here eminent historian Ilan Pappé makes the case for a one-state solution to the crisis; arguing that a new generation of Palestinians and their supporters are taking up the call as the only way out
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After Ian Paisley’s 30 day ban, Eamonn McCann’s call is loud and clear—Ian must go now! Watching Ian Paisley’s whingeing, wheedling “apology” performance in the Commons today, it was difficult to avoid the thought that it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. A bigoted, sectarian,
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Pope Francis will soon be visiting Ireland. For many people Francis is a progressive figure, even an Anti-Capitalist. But how do such claims square with the actual practice of the Pope, both past and present? Historian Brian Kelly examines this question for Rebel. In the five years since he