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In the first of a series of Revolutionaries Reviewed, Paul LeBlanc looks back at the life and politics of Rosa Luxemburg. Born in Poland in 1871, Rosa became a rabble rousing activist. Eventually, she ended up in Germany as one of the leading revolutionaries in the German Social Democratic Party,
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As Maeve McGrath explains, the massive global shift to lockdown has placed added pressure on those fulfilling unpaid caring roles, in shining a light on gender inequality at the heart of society. The state under capitalism has always relied overwhelmingly on women to carry out these roles – caring for the
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Nobody wanted Boris Johnson dead. At the same time, hardly anybody would have rent their garments in grief if word had come that he’d burbled his last. Latest reports say he’s not entirely out of the woods. Those who had been anticipating his demise with inappropriate relish may
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TD Brid Smith makes the case for putting health before profit by moving beyond the markets which have actively hampered our ability to obtain lifesaving PPE. It beggars belief that in 2020 we are witnessing a severe shortage of very basic equipment to assist health workers in the war against
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Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, even the most conservative of columnists are highlighting societies ills, but talk doesn’t guarantee change. According to Eamonn McCann, we have a fight on our hands. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to contract Covid-19. Take New York. The five
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Fine Gael have received some praise for their handling of the coronavirus crisis. But as Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin lays out the facts, the truth behind the grandstanding makes for uncomfortable reading. Leo Varadkar and Simon Harris are in the National Virus Reference Laboratory in UCD. They’re wearing lab coats
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Denis Kosuth, Chicago Nurse and socialist activist, explains how COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths expose systemic racism and the depths of racial inequality in the U.S. The numbers of diagnosed cases and a corresponding death count continue to rise exponentially – indicating that the U.S. is a far way
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Half of all COVID-19 deaths so far in Ireland were residents in nursing homes. North and South, a reliance on private nursing homes & the deprioritisation of elderly care have worsened the impact of COVID-19 for the elderly. At the time of writing there were 119 reported clusters
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A DUP Councillor recently caused controversy by blaming the onset of the Coronavirus on the decriminalisation of abortion and the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Isn’t he simply being consistent? asks Eamonn McCann. Ballymena DUP councillor John Carson has taken a bit of a battering for saying he believed
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As we move through an Easter week like no other in living memory, Shaun Harkin analyses the importance of another Easter week in Ireland’s past, and the lessons it holds for today’s world. Easter 2020 will be etched into our collective psyche like no other in recent memory.
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Ireland in the early 20th century was a hotbed of revolutionary activity, and James Connolly was central to it. Historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh charts James Connolly’s unique political perspective and argues that he provides crucial lessons for the struggles of today. Referring to the veneration of Wolfe Tone by
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Kieran Allen, People Before Profit activist and Professor of Sociology at UCD, discusses the need for public ownership – a socialist demand which has been given renewed focus as futility of reliance on the market is exposed by the Covid-19 crisis.