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This week marks a year since the eruption of major protests in Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Farhang Morady explains the historical background to the protests and assesses the prospect of radical change. In 2022, Iran witnessed a major political upheaval as street
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Charges were made yesterday against suspended president of the Spanish soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, for the unwanted kiss he planted on World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso. Damian Gallagher and Maeve O’Neill discuss the scandal and the wider issues around sexism in sport. “Surely I was wrong, I have to
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Mark Walsh reviews Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed thriller about the “father of the atomic bomb”. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the publication founded in 1945 by Einstein and others to educate the world about the dangers of the nuclear age, is the keeper of the famous doomsday clock. Since
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As record temperatures continue to be broken on a regular basis and climate disasters become all the more frequent, Kieran Allen takes stock of how best the environmental movement can respond. Everyone is talking about the weather. And no wonder, because we have entered the era of climate catastrophe. According
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Socialists in Nigeria have issued the following statement on the coup in Niger and the reaction by ECOWAS. We republish it here in full. Socialist Workers League is deeply concerned about the ongoing situation in the Republic of Niger. We are unwavering in our commitment to peace and the rights
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On 16th August 1819 a huge crowd assembled at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, they were seeking the vote. Workers poured out the mills in Manchester and the surrounding areas and formed a peaceful protest, which was met by brutal suppression and force from local yeomanry and militia. Mark
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With final postal ballots counted at the end of last week, it appears that the rise of the Right has been temporarily stalled in Spain. Andy Durgan takes stock of the results and what they mean for the Left in Spain. Stalemate In the general elections of 23 July, Spain’
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This year’s COP28 summit will take place in the United Arab Emirates petrostate and will be headed up by the CEO of an oil company, Sultan Al Jaber. Colin Redmond calls this farce out for what it is and argues for a boycott of the summit. In November of
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A stacked, one-sided panel discussed the issue of Cyber Security at the Government’s Consultative Forum on Security Policy. As Ruairí Fahy outlines, the make-up of the panel meant that important viewpoints were not heard and the conclusions that can be drawn from it are highly limited. The
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The loss of hundreds of lives in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece last week has been met with sorrowful words from European leaders. But as Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Amanda Danson Brown explain, this disaster happened by design – it was created by the EU’s Fortress Europe policies.
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As people around the world celebrate World Refugee Day, Memet Uludağ looks at the global picture for refugees around the world. A 2015 Guardian headline said, “Record number of migrants expected to drown in Mediterranean this year”. The article explained, “in the first quarter of 2015, nearly 500 migrants have
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A €1.2 billion fine against Meta has been upheld by the Court of Justice of the EU. Kieran Allen explains how the Irish Data Protection Commissioner fought tooth and nail to stop this happening. In recent months there have been a series of news reports indicating that the Irish