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Blanket sympathetic coverage of the death of 6 Israeli hostages contrasts sharply with the scant regard for Palestinian humanity over ten months of bombing, writes Brian Kelly. And it obscures a series of important developments in historic Palestine, including major fissures in the ranks of Zionism. For anyone whose heart
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Deirdre Cronin argues that the current dominance of the church over 88% of primary education in the state has to be challenged. Making the case for a movement that offers a genuine public, secular and inclusive curriculum guided by the overwhelming wish to separate the church instruction from education. North
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As the democrats finish their national convention, having reaffirmed their commitment to imperialism under Harris, it’s time the left organise and smash the duopoly. We need a socialist alternative to challenge the homelessness of class politics in the states. U.S. voters whiplashed by the contradictions of American capitalism
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Below the surface of the Irish political establishment is a deep-seated anti-imperialism that is best represented at cultural events like Electric Picnic. The ruling class are terrified of it. If Electric Picnic is a barometer of the culture of Irish society, then the political establishment are in trouble.
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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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Anne Alexander analyses the likely effect a broader war in the Middle East would have on Palestinian liberation and why a revolutionary alternative is needed across the region to fight imperialism. “This has been a really slow-motion train wreck. Anybody could have told you back in October, back in
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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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From inviting a country actively prosecuting a genocide to the huge profit-drive of Olympics gentrification, Somhairle Mag Uidhir looks at the Olympics from a more critical perspective, arguing that sports should be celebrated and enjoyed on a liberatory basis, not a corporate or imperial one. A busy Parisian bar.
68' Legacies
Jenny Maguire, SU President of Trinity College Dublin, argues that neither students’ nor workers’ unions can be apolitical. That in order to actually affect change, our unions need to be more bold and more radical not less. The student movement, as said by my predecessor Lászlo Molnarfi, ‘woke up’[1]
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Raymond Deane explains the background to Germany’s unrepenting pro-Zionist stance. Germany was unified in 1871 under the chancellorship of Otto von Bismarck. He saw the attainment of German hegemony in Europe in terms of Realpolitik, the pragmatic negotiation of issues between the state and its neighbours. In 1890
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Barry Sweeney analyses the recent attempts by Giorgia Melloni’s party to criminalise dissent and maximise fascist control in the Italian parliament. Sweeney paints a terrifying picture of one of the most egregiously anti-democratic lurches on the European continent today. The Italian Constitution, enacted on January 1, 1948, contains