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The University of Galway governing body is hiding from consequences like a war criminal trying to dodge the firing squad. The hole that has been dug by the President, the Údarás and the University Management Team is so deep and so damning that they cannot leave their offices without facing
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The ceasefire in Gaza, announced last week, was welcomed by many – understandably so. It provided some hope that daily bombings and the murder of Palestinian civilians would be ended. It meant that nearly 2,000 Palestinian hostages would be returned, many of whom had spent years imprisoned. Despite all Netanyahu’
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The strength of the Palestinian resistance to genocide and the resonance of the Global Sumud Flotilla — itself inspired by the principle of Palestinian steadfastness — have galvanised the youth, workers, and unions in Italy. On Monday 22 September, an unprecedented general strike for Palestine brought parts of the country to a
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A recent report entitled Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead, written by Richard Hill (Professor at Griffith University, Australia) and Gideon Polya (Biochemist at Trobe University, Australia), deals squarely with the human cost of what is going on in Gaza. They point out that given the
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“The war bonds go, or the Government goes,” IPSC Stop Funding Genocide campaign coordinator Helen Mahony thundered outside the Department of Foreign Affairs, prompting the loudest cheers of the night from the hundreds attending the last of a series of increasingly furious rallies a few days out from renewal D-
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26 July 2025 marked the second anniversary of Sinéad O’Connor’s death. (She adopted the name Shuhada’ Sadaqat in 2018 but continued to use her birthname professionally, hence I follow her lead here.) An artist and activist, she possessed a voice which was radical in every sense of the
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The American ruling class learned a lesson from their defeat in Vietnam. Seeing the brutality of war makes people rise up against it. Coverage of the mass killings of Vietnamese civilians – the naked girl running distraught from the 1969 My Lai massacre and the soldiers returning in body bags – fed
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Last week’s bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States marks yet another escalation as they work in tandem to batter the Middle East into submission. It is an act of naked aggression that follows 20 months of ongoing genocide in Gaza, along with repeated attacks on Lebanon,
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The Rearm Europe plan, now underway, marks a decisive moment. It puts the EU on a war footing. The hawks are in charge. Von der Leyen’s commitment to a surge in European defence signals the arrival of a centralised European defence policy, even though this is supposed to be
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This article was originally posted on Aaron Maté’s Substack. Shortly after Israel began a devastating attack on Iran – which has so far killed top Iranian military leaders, nuclear scientists, scores of civilians, destroyed vital military assets, and damaged nuclear energy sites – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech
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The latest stage of Israel-US genocide presents itself as humanitarian aid. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a Trojan horse aid distributor backed by the US and reportedly financed by the Israeli ‘defense establishment’, has been condemned by aid agencies after the gunning down of starving civilians. According to Al
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In recent years, Ireland has witnessed an unprecedented surge in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, marked by the largest mass mobilisations and widespread public support since the Water Charges campaign. After the announcement of a ceasefire and the election of a right-wing Irish government, this movement became cloudy, lacking