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Horrific scenes at the Melilla border with Morocco cast a sharp light on how the EU works with other regimes to crack down on migrants. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the funding, training and support the EU provides in order manage migration. Last week in the Dáil, Paul Murphy TD
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As public sector pay talks re-start, Owen McCormack gives an account of the disastrous effects of Social Partnership on workers and explains why a return to these kinds of deals will provide no answer to the cost of living crisis. Talks on a new national pay deal for public
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In recent weeks and months, parts of the Irish media have begun giving a platform to people who wish to stir up hatred towards transgender people. Mike Lovett cuts through the moral panic and the excuses of the media organisations who have allowed it to foment. On Drivetime on the
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Socialism 2022 | A Summer School of Radical Ideas Friday 4th – Saturday 5th June, in The Teachers Club, Parnell Square, Dublin. As the world stumbles into war and climate catastrophe, the often-quoted warning from revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg that society is at a crossroads, either Socialism or Barbarism, is incredibly
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The results of the French General Election yielded a blow to newly elected President Emmanuel Macron’s government, and saw gains for both the Left and the Far Right. Catherine Curran Vigier reports on the election results and their implications for the French Left. Newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron
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As Putin continues to be bogged down in Ukraine and Russian war crimes stack up, people are rightly applauding the resistance of the Ukrainian people. What is not being discussed, however, is how this war is no longer just a war of national defence against the Russian invasion, but that
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Why should the Left oppose sanctions on Russia but call for sanctions on Israel or Apartheid South Africa? Is this inconsistent? John Molyneux takes on the argument. When it comes to Ukraine and condemning war we know our government and other Western rulers have double standards. They denounce the Russian
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People Before Profit introduced a bill to the Dáil today for a referendum to enshrine Irish neutrality in the Constitution. The Irish government will vote against it, despite the of calls Fine Gael in particular for “mature debate” on the issue. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin takes a look at why this
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The establishment has been attacking the Left for its opposition to NATO and EU militarisation, attempting to smear the likes of People Before Profit as Putin apologists. Yet in the IFSC, they have created the mechanisms by which the Oligarchs – Russian, American or from anywhere else – can wash their money
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As war fervour continues to be ramped up, Kieran Allen looks at James Connolly’s views on war: His staunch opposition to imperialism and the First World War, his belief that war was an inevitability under capitalism, and his argument that a rebellion in Ireland could lead to a wider
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The Irish establishment has been using Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine as an excuse to launch an assault on the idea of Irish neutrality. Richard Boyd Barrett takes on their arguments and makes the case for defending and strengthening Irish neutrality. The Irish political establishment, led by Leo Varadkar
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As Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine continues, the US, EU and UK have begun introducing harsh sanctions on Russia. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the aim and impact of these sanctions and makes the case that they ought to be opposed on the basis that they will hurt ordinary