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Long-time US socialists Joe Allen and Bill Mullen survey the carnage from the recent election results, offer an explanation for why Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party failed to connect with voters looking for an alternative, and plot a set of urgent priorities facing the American Left as it
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In September, the British Government announced they were pulling the plug on the funding needed to rebuild Casement Park as a venue for the 2028 European Championships. Now that the dust has settled on that decision, and as Casement continues to wither, Somhairle Mag Uidhir discusses the competing visions for
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Deirbhle Sheppard highlights the shocking and persistent extent of sexual violence in our society. She unscrambles the false myths put out by the far right and argues that in fighting these, we need to join together to fight all forms of gender oppression. Gender-based violence is a harrowing epidemic,
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Over the past year anti-immigration sentiment has been fanned by far right parties and the Government. Brian O’Boyle reviews the tactics used to scapegoat migrants for government failures and argues for principled anti-racist politics in the upcoming election. Simon Harris became the Irish Taoiseach in April 2024,
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Goretti Horgan explains how decades of underfunding and creeping privatisation has undermined the once treasured NHS. During the COVID crisis, People before Profit and others initiated a campaign for an All-Ireland NHS. The reasoning was simple: Covid-19 plunged the health and social care systems, north and south of
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Joe Allen critiques attempts to rally leftists behind Kamala Harris as the “lesser evil” choice against Trump. Allen argues that US imperialism and Zionism are at stake in this election, as voices on the left push for a choice between harmful status quos, warning that anti-war and social movements
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From trans rights to Palestine Chappell Roan has used her platform to say fuck the duopoly and demand more. Failing to see how genocide isn’t a red line for American liberals she offered a bold indictment of the liberal band-wagon ridiculing anyone who mentions Palestine. Alexandra Day explore
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Kieran Allen breaks down the latest gleeful condemnations of Sinn Féin from the Irish political establishment and points to a wider trend in Irish politics. The left must be prepared for all the mud-slinging of the establishment. The French sociologist, Piere Bourdieu, used to write about ‘habitus’. It referred
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Joe Daly, People before Profit election candidate in Mayo, argues that the movement for Palestine, with the escalation of the war into Lebanon, needs to intensify. Thousands more people in Ireland are outraged at the extent of collaboration of our government and more radical and socialist voices in the campaign
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin discusses October 7th – the context of what led to Palestinian resistance factions breaking out of their Gaza prison, what happened on the day itself and the death spiral Zionism has been on since Israel began its genocide in Gaza. October 7th. This date and the narrative around
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With a landmark surplus at their disposal the government have failed to make transformational change to fight the housing and healthcare crisis. Kieran Allen looks at what’s really in Budget 2025 and whether or not this will buy the election for the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. ‘Do you
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Barry Sweeney writing from Catania, Sicily, shows how in Meloni’s Italy criminalizing dissent has become normal. Italy, as with all countries, faces multiple problems relating to climate chaos, workplace deaths, inadequate public services, pandemics, a weak health system, poor worker protection, rampant exploitation, crumbling bridges and infrastructure, racist institutions,