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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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John Whipple reviews Hans Kundnani’s book Euro Whiteness – A critical look at the European project and its intersections with empire, racism and nationalism. The impact and ideas of race are globally important to thinking about Europe, culturally, in ways which are comparable in the importance to thinking about race
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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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Jenny Maguire, SU President of Trinity College Dublin, argues that neither students’ nor workers’ unions can be apolitical. That in order to actually affect change, our unions need to be more bold and more radical not less. The student movement, as said by my predecessor Lászlo Molnarfi, ‘woke up’[1]
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Raymond Deane explains the background to Germany’s unrepenting pro-Zionist stance. Germany was unified in 1871 under the chancellorship of Otto von Bismarck. He saw the attainment of German hegemony in Europe in terms of Realpolitik, the pragmatic negotiation of issues between the state and its neighbours. In 1890
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Ahead of tomorrow’s Westminster elections, Fiona Ferguson, the People Before Profit candidate for North Belfast, explains why we need a radical break from both the Tories and the establishment parties in the North. People will take to the polls across the North of Ireland tomorrow for a snap Westminster
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Dominic Carroll from The Irish Neutrality League explains why the purpose of jettisoning the Triple Lock would be to dismantle Irish neutrality. The government is preparing to scrap the Triple Lock. That’s the law that determines the circumstances in which the Irish Defence Forces can be sent abroad. The
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Catherine Curran Vigier explains the social crisis following Le Pen’s electoral victory and Macron’s sudden calling of an election. She argues that the unity of the left – the New Popular Front – is a step forward in the fight against the far right but that it needs a strong
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John Lannon of Shannonwatch makes the decisive case for evicting the US military from Ireland once and for all. The Irish government needs to go beyond symbolic gestures to help people of Gaza. As the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement points out, one of the main reasons Israel is able
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Students revolting, Trump’s conviction, Genocide Joe’s continued support for Israel and an Unholy Alliance on the far right, Bill V. Mullen, analyses the various political processes at work in the US today. The Global Student Intifada launched on U.S. university campuses this Spring has shaken the U.
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As the solidarity movement for Gaza continues to grow across the globe, Eli Kane explains how students in Ireland have been in the lead. How the students have been making the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (DBS) a reality on Irish campuses and showing the path that labour unions and others
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The Irish Government recognised the State of Palestine yesterday. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the move is a cynical one, designed to appease a persistent solidarity movement with symbolic actions of little substance. Yesterday, Ireland, along with Norway and Spain, recognised the State of Palestine in what was described in