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Aer Lingus pilots begin industrial action today in the face of management’s stubborn refusal to meet their demands for a pay rise that matches inflation. Stewart Smyth explains how the pilots have been mistreated by management and argues that a win for them is a win for us all.
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Catherine Curran Vigier explains the social crisis following Le Pen’s electoral victory and Macron’s sudden calling of an election. She argues that the unity of the left – the New Popular Front – is a step forward in the fight against the far right but that it needs a strong
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With the British Tories promising to “Stop the Boats” by implementing their Rwanda policy, the Irish government leaving open such a possibility and the far right in Ireland agitating for a similar policy, Stewart Smyth, analyses examples of the policy in other jurisdictions. He shows the policy is a continual
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Students revolting, Trump’s conviction, Genocide Joe’s continued support for Israel and an Unholy Alliance on the far right, Bill V. Mullen, analyses the various political processes at work in the US today. The Global Student Intifada launched on U.S. university campuses this Spring has shaken the U.
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As the solidarity movement for Gaza continues to grow across the globe, Eli Kane explains how students in Ireland have been in the lead. How the students have been making the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (DBS) a reality on Irish campuses and showing the path that labour unions and others
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The Irish Government recognised the State of Palestine yesterday. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the move is a cynical one, designed to appease a persistent solidarity movement with symbolic actions of little substance. Yesterday, Ireland, along with Norway and Spain, recognised the State of Palestine in what was described in
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‘Bombs to settle arguments the order of the boot, from thegraves of Belsen to the ruins of Beirut’. Special Aka, War Crimes, (1984) Anti-militarist and peace educator, Eamon Rafter, explores the secret and hugely powerful global arms trade, including a visual arts exhibition currently running in Dublin. The biggest
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Alexandra Day shows up the sham of the ‘apolitical’ Eurovision song contest. ‘United by Music’ is the slogan of Eurovision this year, the final to be held in Malmö on Saturday. Taking place just four days before the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the real ‘unity’ of the competition is
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Farhang Morady explains the geopolitical context of the escalating Israel-Iran conflict against the background of the genocide in Gaza. He argues that Iran’s retaliation to Israel’s deadly attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus was also motivated by the Iranian regime’s own power dynamics. The relationship
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Guillermo Kane writes from Argentina about Milei’s attacks on workers and how these have been met with mass action, mainly led by the revolutionary and radical left. Guillermo is a parliamentary representative for FITU/Left Workers’ Unity Front and a leading member of the Partido Obrero/Workers Party. Over
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The scope of Pro-Palestine activism continues to widen in the U.S. Radical writer Paul Street noticed a distinct difference to the April 15th call for a “Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine” in the United States. From blockading highways in major U.S. cities to targeting weapons and
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After many years of gestation, the Vatican declaration on human dignity seeks to justify its opposition not just to trans people but a range of progressive changes, as Kieran Allen argues here. The Vatican issued a document earlier this month which condemns trans people. Called Infinite Dignity, it is authored