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John Lannon of Shannonwatch makes the decisive case for evicting the US military from Ireland once and for all. The Irish government needs to go beyond symbolic gestures to help people of Gaza. As the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement points out, one of the main reasons Israel is able
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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
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Students revolting, Trump’s conviction, Genocide Joe’s continued support for Israel and an Unholy Alliance on the far right, Bill V. Mullen, analyses the various political processes at work in the US today. The Global Student Intifada launched on U.S. university campuses this Spring has shaken the U.
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As the solidarity movement for Gaza continues to grow across the globe, Eli Kane explains how students in Ireland have been in the lead. How the students have been making the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (DBS) a reality on Irish campuses and showing the path that labour unions and others
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Housing is the number one issue in these elections. Stewart Smyth argues that the local elections represent an opportunity to put campaigners in council chambers and evict Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The housing crisis remains the central issue for most voters. Housing is consistently the number one issue for
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Marnie Holborow explores the deeply exploitative and misogynistic currents of modern childcare under neoliberal capitalism. Arguing for a state-led solution to lift families and parents up from the chaos of the private market childcare industrial complex. A recent report from Irish Life found that Ireland’s gender pension gap
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As the general election process continues in India, Shanti Dey explains the background and history to the rise of Modi and his far right, supremacist party the BJP. In 2014, Modi came to power with vibrant promises of economic glory, anti-corruption and with seemingly tremendous mass support from all
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The Irish Government recognised the State of Palestine yesterday. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the move is a cynical one, designed to appease a persistent solidarity movement with symbolic actions of little substance. Yesterday, Ireland, along with Norway and Spain, recognised the State of Palestine in what was described in
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‘Bombs to settle arguments the order of the boot, from thegraves of Belsen to the ruins of Beirut’. Special Aka, War Crimes, (1984) Anti-militarist and peace educator, Eamon Rafter, explores the secret and hugely powerful global arms trade, including a visual arts exhibition currently running in Dublin. The biggest
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In the second of our Socialist in the Council interviewsFinbar Lynch spoke to People Before Profit Cllr. Adrienne Wallace about her experience on Carlow County Council and what socialists can achieve at local council. Finbar Lynch: What politicised you? Adrienne Wallace: The Anti-Water Charges movement. I had just left
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As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the 1974 bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Kieran Allen explains why it’s still important to reveal the truth and end the cover-ups about these events. The Stardust families had to wait over forty years to get the truth about the deaths
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Alexandra Day shows up the sham of the ‘apolitical’ Eurovision song contest. ‘United by Music’ is the slogan of Eurovision this year, the final to be held in Malmö on Saturday. Taking place just four days before the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the real ‘unity’ of the competition is