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After two years of genocide, a so-called ‘peace plan’ is on the table for the Palestinians, and the ghasts and ghouls of Western imperialism have been trotted out to champion it. The 20-point document released yesterday at a White House press conference – President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive
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A recent report entitled Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead, written by Richard Hill (Professor at Griffith University, Australia) and Gideon Polya (Biochemist at Trobe University, Australia), deals squarely with the human cost of what is going on in Gaza. They point out that given the
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“The war bonds go, or the Government goes,” IPSC Stop Funding Genocide campaign coordinator Helen Mahony thundered outside the Department of Foreign Affairs, prompting the loudest cheers of the night from the hundreds attending the last of a series of increasingly furious rallies a few days out from renewal D-
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26 July 2025 marked the second anniversary of Sinéad O’Connor’s death. (She adopted the name Shuhada’ Sadaqat in 2018 but continued to use her birthname professionally, hence I follow her lead here.) An artist and activist, she possessed a voice which was radical in every sense of the
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The American ruling class learned a lesson from their defeat in Vietnam. Seeing the brutality of war makes people rise up against it. Coverage of the mass killings of Vietnamese civilians – the naked girl running distraught from the 1969 My Lai massacre and the soldiers returning in body bags – fed
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The latest stage of Israel-US genocide presents itself as humanitarian aid. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a Trojan horse aid distributor backed by the US and reportedly financed by the Israeli ‘defense establishment’, has been condemned by aid agencies after the gunning down of starving civilians. According to Al
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In recent years, Ireland has witnessed an unprecedented surge in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, marked by the largest mass mobilisations and widespread public support since the Water Charges campaign. After the announcement of a ceasefire and the election of a right-wing Irish government, this movement became cloudy, lacking
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Last week the Israeli cabinet approved plans to intensify its brutal war in Gaza, with the explicit aim of forcing the mass expulsion of Palestinians. Brian Kelly explores Israeli motives in collapsing the ceasefire and assesses reports of a growing rift between the scandal-ridden Netanyahu government and Trump’s
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Brian Kelly explains how Trump has ripped away all pretence when it comes to the pursuit of US imperialist interests, arguing that these actions could provoke an anti-imperialist response far greater than his administration might have bargained for. It seems hard to believe, but just two weeks ago many
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Joe Allen writes of the deepening of the solidarity with Gaza movement across US campuses, now attracting wider trade union support. As Trinity College Dublin students occupy their campus, the lessons of the extensive movement should not be lost on us. It’s been an extraordinary two weeks on U.
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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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“Either the power of popular outrage—channelled into strikes, mass protest and rebellion—will restrain a murderous elite who show no hesitation in carrying out flagrant war crimes, or we will emerge at the other end inhabiting a world in tatters—permanently diminished and fractured by western rulers’ complicity in