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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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As Israel attempts to clear the ground for carnage in Lebanon, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin calls out the Irish Government’s passivity in the face of Netenyahu and Biden’s march towards apocalypse. With no force among the ‘rules-based international order’ willing to call a halt, Israel keeps pushing the
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Writer on Middle Eastern politics, Farhang Morady, writes that Iran’s military response to Israel’s escalation of the war is driven both by the need to push back against Israel and the Western powers and by its aim to assert its dominance in the region. After a year of
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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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Brian Kelly examines the likely fallout from Israel’s escalating assault on Lebanon and argues for a renewed focus on anti-imperialism as the basis for reviving a mass anti-war movement. The Israeli military’s assassination of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and its ongoing attacks across southern Lebanon
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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,
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Blanket sympathetic coverage of the death of 6 Israeli hostages contrasts sharply with the scant regard for Palestinian humanity over ten months of bombing, writes Brian Kelly. And it obscures a series of important developments in historic Palestine, including major fissures in the ranks of Zionism. For anyone whose heart
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As the democrats finish their national convention, having reaffirmed their commitment to imperialism under Harris, it’s time the left organise and smash the duopoly. We need a socialist alternative to challenge the homelessness of class politics in the states. U.S. voters whiplashed by the contradictions of American capitalism
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Below the surface of the Irish political establishment is a deep-seated anti-imperialism that is best represented at cultural events like Electric Picnic. The ruling class are terrified of it. If Electric Picnic is a barometer of the culture of Irish society, then the political establishment are in trouble.
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Anne Alexander analyses the likely effect a broader war in the Middle East would have on Palestinian liberation and why a revolutionary alternative is needed across the region to fight imperialism. “This has been a really slow-motion train wreck. Anybody could have told you back in October, back in
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From inviting a country actively prosecuting a genocide to the huge profit-drive of Olympics gentrification, Somhairle Mag Uidhir looks at the Olympics from a more critical perspective, arguing that sports should be celebrated and enjoyed on a liberatory basis, not a corporate or imperial one. A busy Parisian bar.