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The situation facing the six people currently on hunger strike in English prisons is dire and worsening by the minute. Their names are Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed and Lewie Chiaramello. Two others, Jon Cink and Umer Khalid, also spent considerable time on hunger strike
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As the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded in Brazil, offering the world its 30th helping of hollow promises and business-friendly targets, a small country on the opposite side of the continent delivered a verdict of its own. On 16 November, the people of Ecuador overwhelmingly defeated a
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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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French workers will take to the streets for another general strike tomorrow in protest of President Macron’s proposal to raise the pension age from 62 to 64. Catherine Curran Vigier writes about the strength of the movement and the challenges the workers are facing. The demonstrations against Macron’s
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Who fears a Left Government? Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin explores the media meltdown that heralded the arrival of People Before Profit’s new pamphlet. In 1996 BBC journalist Andrew Marr interviewed Noam Chomsky about his theory of the media, Manufacturing Consent. Among other things, Chomsky spoke about the role of the
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As the Iranian regime cracks down on protesters, Mick Wallace MEP is being pilloried by the Irish Times for painting the situation as a case of two equal sides. Kieran Allen sets out his opposition to Wallace and explains why it comes from a very different place to that of
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This summer’s dramatic accumulation of extreme weather events, from the western American heat dome to the German floods, the Greek and Turkish fires, and the publication of the IPCC Report with its stark ‘code red for humanity’ warning, pose an urgent strategic question to everyone in the climate change