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Local elections will take place in Ireland later this year. Finbar Lynch spoke to People Before Profit Cllr. Hazel de Nortúin about her experience on Dublin City Council and what socialists can achieve at local council. Finbar Lynch: What first politicised you? Hazel De Nortúin: When Bríd (Smith, TD) was
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As the US presidential election begins to gather steam, Joe Allen looks at the far right threat and the dangerous game being played by the Democrats. Allen asks if Genocide Joe has the support to win or whether a new left alternative should take their place instead. During the first
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On Tuesday 23 January the Ram Mundir temple, built on the ruins of the destroyed Babri Masjid Mosque, was opened to the public for the first time. Shifana Niyas explains how the supremacist Hindutva movement that destroyed the mosque in 1992 is making life increasingly dangerous for Muslims and other
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As we draw closer to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day White House visit, Somhairle Mag Uidhir argues that Ireland is uniquely placed to take a stand with the Palestinian people and boycott the visit. The biggest event on the Irish-US calendar is unquestionably St. Patrick’s Day.
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In the wake of last Saturday’s enormous Palestine solidarity march, Conor Reddy assesses the growth of movement, the challenges it faces and the strategies we need to bring about full Palestinian liberation. Saturday’s march for Palestine in Dublin was enormous. Perhaps the biggest seen since the peak of
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As public sector workers take to the picket lines today, Olcán Shaw explains how Stormont has failed them and why they are right to take matters into their own hands. “Even if it were fully functioning, our Executive does not have the resources to tackle this problem.” On 25 April
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The new year has opened in much the same vein as the old year, with far right agitators stirring up protests and hatred of migrants across the country. In this article, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin examines what the anti-fascist movement have gotten right and wrong over the past couple of
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2023 closed in the United States with the emergence of the most significant antiwar campaigning in two decades. Joe Allen writes. Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza since Hamas’ October 7th attack has produced the most significant antiwar campaigning since the election of Barack Obama in 2008. For the first
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As the housing crisis rages across this island Stewart Smyth assesses the need for a state construction company and welcomes the announcement of new NIHE homes being built in the North. However, major battles on housing lie ahead. Irish Housing Minister, Darragh O’Brien, is the consummate bourgeois politician. While
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Germany has been one of the most vociferous supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Maurice Coakley explains the confluence of factors that have led German leaders to proclaim “Never Again” when it comes to the horrors of the Holocaust, even as they cheer on the horrors of the new
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin offers a scathing eulogy to a man who wrought havoc on countless countries and peoples across the globe. Whose scars are still borne by the global South and whose passing must inspire us to fight every future Kissinger that may burden the Earth with imperialism in the
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Israel’s occupation and colonisation of Palestine has aimed to erase everything about Palestinian life, land and culture. As Alexandra Day explains, this has also involved the imposition of a kind of climate apartheid and attempts to erase even Palestine’s nature. In the decades since 1948, apartheid and ethnic