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Over the past week, the Irish government has indicated that it no longer has space to accommodate any more Ukrainian refugees. But is this really a refugee crisis? Or is the real problem, as Memet Uludağ argues, the abject failure of this government to tackle the housing crisis? Last week
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Fifty years ago this week, the trial of the Mangrove Nine began. Somhairle Mag Uidhir reviews its recent dramatisation by Steve McQueen, highlighting the structural racism and community struggle the case embodies. Within the wood-panelled and imperial walls of London’s Old Bailey, nine Black women and men took
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Advertising is a constant feature of our everyday lives. John Molyneux argues that as a result, we often ignore its real and unsavoury function: capitalist propaganda par excellence. When the revolution comes you will know it … because there won’t be no commercials. – The Last Poets In contemporary capitalist society
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As part of the Revolutionaries Reviewed series, Bill Mullen argues the works of Trinidadian socialist and revolutionary C.L.R. James help us grapple with the key debates in the Black Lives Matter movement, and argues the need for anti-racist organising to be at the centre of the struggle
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As the threat of an Irish far-right continues to grow, Joe Daly takes a look at some of their recent tactics, from attacking Direct Provision residents to shamelessly scaremongering over so-called ‘family values’. While imprisoned by Mussolini’s fascist regime between 1926 and 1937, the great Italian Marxist
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There is a streak of hypocrisy running through much of the condemnation of the British government for driving migrants trying to cross the English Channel back where they came from. How in terms of political morality does this differ from the migration policies of EU governments, including the Irish government?
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The recent treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters by the PSNI laid bare the institutional racism of the ‘New Northern Ireland’. In a piece which takes stock of the inaction of Stormont over more than a decade, Rebel exposes the depth of the problem. On Tuesday 9 June 2020, Justice
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Eugenics neither began nor ended with the Nazis, despite the term being most-often associated with their despicable crimes. As the far-right attempt to rehabilitate these abhorrent ideas, Aislinn Shanahan Daly traces some of the hidden history of eugenics. It is a dark omen that the word eugenics has
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As thousands of BLM protesters continue to resist armed Federal agents on the streets of Portland, Rebel speaks to Bob Bacon, an activist on the ground. Rebel: Just last week, it was announced that the Federal Troops will be leaving Portland’s streets. This seems like a massive blow for
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All across the world the Black Lives Matter movement has generated long-overdue debates over the legacies of racism. With some on the right trying to muddy the waters, Eamonn McCann takes a look at Irish racism in the US. Reacting to Black Lives Matter, some Irish social media sites
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As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society. Seven Days that Changed Everything By Memorial Day, May 25, many of us had
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Kate Nash, whose brother William was one of 14 civil rights marchers gunned down by the Parachute Regiment in Derry on January 30th 1972 speaking at Free Derry Wall in solidarity with the family of George Floyd, crushed to death by the Minneapolis police on May 26th, 2020. Mr. Floyd’