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Housing remains one of the top issues in this general election. Here Stewart Smyth exposes the government’s spin and myths about the housing crisis and argues that another housing system is possible. In a stale and social media driven election campaign, where the mainstream candidates are mollycoddled by the
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The decision to erect chain link fences along our canals and chase our homeless around the city is a purposeful and cruel political choice that needs to be opposed. Nathan Ó Broin analyses enclosure and gentrification in Dublin making the case for local resistance and a People’s City. The
Ecosocialism
The Irish Government survived a vote of confidence today, two days ahead of the lifting of the eviction ban. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the record of the Green Party and how they have kept this landlord Government going. When the Green Party were on the brink of entering coalition
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The Government’s refusal to extend the eviction ban beyond the end of March means thousands of people could face eviction in the coming months. Stewart Smyth argues that they are fighting for their class – so we need to fight for ours. This government is incompetent. I know this is
Ecosocialism
Who fears a Left Government? Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin explores the media meltdown that heralded the arrival of People Before Profit’s new pamphlet. In 1996 BBC journalist Andrew Marr interviewed Noam Chomsky about his theory of the media, Manufacturing Consent. Among other things, Chomsky spoke about the role of the
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In the wake of protests in East Wall against asylum seekers who have been accommodated in an old ESB building there, Stewart Smyth lays out the case that problem is not with refugees, but with government policies that have created a housing crisis. To start, this article is not about
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Over the past week, the Irish government has indicated that it no longer has space to accommodate any more Ukrainian refugees. But is this really a refugee crisis? Or is the real problem, as Memet Uludağ argues, the abject failure of this government to tackle the housing crisis? Last week