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News broke this week that the International Criminal Court has rightly issued a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin due to war crimes committed in Ukraine. Yet 20 years on from the invasion of Iraq, no such warrant has been issued for war crimes committed there. Dominic
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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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The point of this exhibition is to mark the 51st Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. All the art pieces on display, by the brilliant Bogside artist Squarebearderry, evoke the environment of the streets where the massacre took place. We have marched the same route every year since Bloody Sunday happened, and
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In the wake of recent anti-refugee protests, Alexandra Day takes a look at the history of Irish migration and draws parallels with the treatment of asylum seekers in Ireland today. The news has lately been dominated by reports of protests against the accommodation of refugees in Ireland. These protests
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Most academic historians have chosen to concentrate almost exclusively on the military struggle and the political machinations of the nationalist leadership during the Civil War, ignoring the struggles of organised labour. Indeed, labour historian Emmet O’Conner has argued that ‘public history … remains inordinately engrossed with nationalism’. Kieran McNulty aims
68' Legacies
Seán Mitchell pays tribute to John Molyneux. On the 10th of December 2022, the revolutionary Marxist tradition tragically lost of one its finest proponents. 74 years old, 54 of them as a revolutionary, John Molyneux—thinker, writer and revolutionary activist—was a long-distance runner on the road to a
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The Irish government commemorated Michael Collins on the 100th anniversary of his death at Béal na Bláth today, reigniting a debate over his legacy and the Free State that was founded at this time. Kieran Allen takes a closer look at this legacy. This article was first published in the
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Two decades on from the attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11 2001, Becca Bor recounts memories from that day and assesses the despicable ‘War on Terror’ it spawned. Twenty years ago, I sat in my first period class in Boston and my teacher – to the surprise of
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Belfast’s Mary Ann McCracken was a truly remarkable radical. A recent pamphlet by John Gray reinterprets the significance of her life of activism and we republish the introduction to that pamphlet here. Mary Ann McCracken has reasonable claims to be considered Belfast’s most formidable female radical of her
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The latest edition of the IMR investigates the roots of US imperialism across the middle east and the necessity for Palestinian liberation. With contributions from Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Brian O’Boyle, Paul Le Blanc and more. Edited by Brian O’Boyle. Help Rebel and SWN publications by making an
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Daniel Finn’s 2019 book One Man’s Terrorist provided a radical reinterpretation of the Provisional IRA. Rebel spoke to him about the the conditions of their initial emergence, their changing strategies, as well as the context today two decades on from the Good Friday Agreement. READ PART 1 HERE
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Daniel Finn’s 2019 book One Man’s Terrorist provided a radical reinterpretation of the Provisional IRA. Rebel spoke to him about the the conditions of their initial emergence, their changing strategies, as well as the context today two decades on from the Good Friday Agreement. REBEL: The Provisional IRA