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Eli Kane explores anti-Semitism today, arguing that its political weaponisation by Zionism obscures the real and dangerous threat from growing far right and fascist ideologies. Anti-Semitism, perhaps the form of racism most readily associated with genocide, naturally raises alarm bells wherever it appears. One of the oldest forms
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Over the past year anti-immigration sentiment has been fanned by far right parties and the Government. Brian O’Boyle reviews the tactics used to scapegoat migrants for government failures and argues for principled anti-racist politics in the upcoming election. Simon Harris became the Irish Taoiseach in April 2024,
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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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Jack Geehan shows how the far-right will not be talked off the street but instead must be removed by mass-action from anti-fascist activists ready to continue the struggle and not become complacent. A well-organised counter-mobilisation led by the organised left and the broader anti-racist
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Marnie Holborow argues that the escalation of far right violence and racism requires the urgent building of a united anti-racist movement. The new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has called for those who were responsible for the riots would face ‘the full force of the law’ and mass arrests
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that racism of the far right is also picked up by the political mainstream, which makes a clear anti-racist opposition to it all the more urgent. A week ago, the Irish Times reported that “Former Ku Klux Klan ‘grand dragon’ is mentoring Irish far-right
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The decision to erect chain link fences along our canals and chase our homeless around the city is a purposeful and cruel political choice that needs to be opposed. Nathan Ó Broin analyses enclosure and gentrification in Dublin making the case for local resistance and a People’s City. The
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A vote on the EU Migration Pact – delayed from last week – will take place in the Dáil today. Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argue that the Pact marks a significant escalation of the EU’s violent border policies and discuss the wider political context of increased hostility to
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The centre ground of Irish politics lurched towards the right in the recent elections, with anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric emanating from mainstream parties. Among other tactics, the government has sought to deflect attention away from their failed policies by raising the issue of deportations. In this article, Joe Moore
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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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With the British Tories promising to “Stop the Boats” by implementing their Rwanda policy, the Irish government leaving open such a possibility and the far right in Ireland agitating for a similar policy, Stewart Smyth, analyses examples of the policy in other jurisdictions. He shows the policy is a continual
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With counting just finishing in the local elections, Kieran Allen analyses the results arguing that the establishment has used anti-immigrant rhetoric to shore up FF/FG votes. Meanwhile, Sinn Féin’s decline is a direct result of their long-march to the centre ground strategy and an inability to