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The Covid-19 pandemic has seen domestic violence rates soar. Ahead of UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th, Marnie Holborow explains why it is time to challenge the lack of state support for survivors of domestic violence. Governments have relied on individual households
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The Inquiry in London into undercover policing has shown how far we still have to travel to find the truth about Bloody Sunday. The remit of the “SpyCops” Inquiry under Lord Mitting doesn’t extend to Bloody Sunday. But the overlap between the issues raised has been striking. The Mitting
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Throughout the pandemic, the establishment have been quick to call frontline health workers “heroes”. Junior doctor Eóin Ó Murchú argues that lip-service is not enough, and COVID has put a spotlight on treatment of health staff in Ireland. The arrival of SARS‐CoV‐2 in Ireland brought the capacity
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Jerry Maguire, hospitality worker and Unite Hospitality member, condemns a shambolic Stormont which has failed to support workers, instead putting their health on the line. It’s often remarked that a week is a long time in politics. But when Harold Wilson first coined that expression, he couldn’t have
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The 1857 Rebellion against British rule in Colonial India hasn’t always received the attention it deserves, despite being one of the most important uprisings of the 19th century. Pranav Jani argues it’s high time we changed that. The 1857 Rebellion, sparked by mutinous Indian soldiers of the British
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After a Spring in which Sweden had one of the worst Covid death rates in Europe, some latched on to their low summer case numbers to argue for a herd immunity approach. But as cases again rise dramatically, Madeleine Johansson challenges the Swedish herd immunity myth. North and South, Ireland
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The recent suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, argues John Molyneux, exposed in dramatic fashion an underlying truth about the Labour Party in Britain: its unshakeable support for the institutions of the British state. The Labour Party in Britain is, and always has been since its inception in 1900, a reformist party.
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To mark the 103rd anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Rebel republishes a short extract from Victor Serge’s classic account, Year One of the Russian Revolution. The Taking of the Winter Palace1The following extract is taken from Chapter 2 of the marxists.org transcription. Three comrades had been deputed to
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KPMG have been at the heart of the Debenhams dispute in their role as liquidators. But their abhorrent actions in that case is only the tip of the iceberg, as Stewart Smyth explains. KPMG have been in the news a lot in recent months and not just due to their
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In 1861 Gobnait Ní Bhruadair, née Albinia Broderick, was born a member of the British aristocracy. Yet by the time of Ireland’s anti-colonial struggles in the early 20th century, she was deeply committed to the republican cause. Kieran McNulty examines the legacy of a revolutionary who always connected
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Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn was suspended as a member of the British Labour Party. The reason? On paper it was because of his response to the EHRC report on antisemitism in Labour. While continuing his consistent condemnation of antisemitism, Corbyn’s statement highlighted those parts of the report which showed his
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Alexandra Day reviews Silvia Federici’s seminal work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. First published in 2004, Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici is a work well worth revisiting in 2020. The call to ‘stay at home’ during the pandemic has raised vital questions