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Gillian Brien is the People Before Profit candidate for Dublin in this year’s European elections. Barney Doherty sat down with Gillian for Rebel, to find out more about this new voice in Irish politics. Gillian Brien’s journey to becoming candidate for the European election was undoubtedly shaped by
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A meeting in January, hosted by People Before Profit representatives Lola Hynes (Blackrock, Dublin) and Rachael Prendergast Spollen (Stillorgan, Dublin), discussed the issue of separating church and state. People gathered in Dublin recently and heard from two activists well versed in campaigning against the Catholic Church’s detrimental influence in
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As the devastating impact of Welfare Reform becomes clearer every day, Goretti Horgan looks at the specific impact of the cuts on women, and shows the alternative that Stormont could have taken to avoid these measures. There are so many awful stories about what I Daniel Blake’s director Ken
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1. At Marxism 2018, Cailín McCaffery gave a powerful speech to a packed auditorium about the lack of abortion rights in the North and the need for a new Ireland. Her call for change was met with loud and determined applause. We have published the full transcript of her talk
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Following #ThisIsNotConsent protests across the country after the Cork Rape Trial, Leo Varadkar has commissioned a legal expert to examine rules around evidence in rape trials. The government had been forced to listen and respond, and Steph Hanlon argues it is important to push for more urgent reform of the
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Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the supreme court was preceded by protests, strikes, and outrage in response to multiple sexual assaults claims against him. Writing for Rebel, Rachel Cohen takes a look back at Kavanaugh’s record before his nomination, the outburst of struggle across the states, and the role
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Constance Markievicz became the first female MP 100 years ago. David Swanson takes a look at the background and politics of this remarkable person. Constance Markievicz’s legacy will be forever etched as a beacon of example for those interested in radical history. An uncompromising revolutionist for much of her
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The background to the debate on sex work, including how the left should relate to the issue, has been published by Rebel in a recent article by Madeleine Johannson. Here, Steph Hanlon discusses the specifics of the law in Ireland and the detrimental impact it has on the working lives
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In the second installment of our subseries Rebel Women, Madeleine Johansson gives her thoughts on the topic of ongoing debate, sex work, and how we on the left should relate to it. The debates around sex work have changed significantly over the last hundred years or so; from the moral
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Fine Gael are keen to present themselves as champions of women’s rights. But as Steph Hanlon argues, the role played by Simon Harris and others in the cervical screen scandal would suggest otherwise. Simon Harris, Leo Varadkar, the HSE directorate, and previous health ministers are guilty of causing the
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Nearly a month after the Repeal referendum, and the dust is still settling. How do we comprehend this result and where to we go from here? Rebel’s Becca Bor sat down with key activists including Sinead Kennedy (leading member of Together for Yes), Adrienne Wallace (People Before Profit), and
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Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, a leading women’s equality campaigner and founder of both the Irish Women Workers’ Union and the Irish Women’s Franchise League, described Connolly as the “soundest and most thorough-going feminist of all the Irish Labour men.” Connolly welcomed the Irish women’s rebellion and thought