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In the first of two articles in the run-up to new Bolivian elections on October 18, Mike Gonzalez analyses the mass movements of 2000-2005 which led to Evo Morales becoming the country’s first indigenous president – and the right-wing coup which ousted him late last year. Bolivia
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As a Dáil report calls for an inquiry into COVID-19 in nursing homes, why did 56% of all deaths (985 people) in the first wave came from a group that makes up just 0.65% of the population? Bríd Smith TD argues that it is the for-profit system
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Forty years ago, the PAYE revolts rocked Ireland. Paul O’Neill tells the story of this oft-forgotten period when Irish workers fought for a more progressive taxation system, while the establishment struggled to reign in the movement. From 1979 to 1983 Ireland witnessed a number of militant strikes, including
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“I know the simple life / Would be right for me”, wrote Derek Mahon, who died on October 1st, aged 78, “If I were a simple man.” Known for the intellectual force and technical fluency of his work, and admired as a translator from multiple verse traditions, the Belfast-born poet
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In a blistering report on the first 100 days of Micheál Martin’s government, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin details the incompetence, the scandal, the chaos, and the unforgivable role of the Greens. It seems like an age since the February election saw a resounding rejection of the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael
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Eamonn McCann on the reaction to latest blow dealt to the Bloody Sunday families, followed by a statement from The Bloody Sunday March For Justice Committee on Sinn Féin’s decision to welcome the commander in chief of the Parachute Regiment within 24 hours. Many people outside Derry say – and
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Julian Assange, an Australian, is being tried in England at the urging of the United States for alleged crimes committed somewhere else. Kafka didn’t know the half of it. The alleged crimes form the basis of the US’s demand for his extradition to face 18 charges of espionage,
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As the world continues to grapple with COVID-19, Maeve McGrath takes a look at how artists have depicted plagues and epidemics in times gone past. To contextualise the COVID-19 pandemic, many commentators turn to comparisons with the 1918 “Spanish” Flu or the Black Death (1347 – 1351). While much
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Advertising is a constant feature of our everyday lives. John Molyneux argues that as a result, we often ignore its real and unsavoury function: capitalist propaganda par excellence. When the revolution comes you will know it … because there won’t be no commercials. – The Last Poets In contemporary capitalist society
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Between anti-vax myths and the profit-driven practices of Big Pharma, there is much to contend with in the vaccine debate. As Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues, we must fight on both fronts to put health before profit. US President Trump recently made the outlandish claim that a COVID-19
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As part of the Revolutionaries Reviewed series, Bill Mullen argues the works of Trinidadian socialist and revolutionary C.L.R. James help us grapple with the key debates in the Black Lives Matter movement, and argues the need for anti-racist organising to be at the centre of the struggle
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Recent months have seen intense debate about the future of the Leaving Cert. Post-primary teacher Mark Walshe argues that while the process is seriously flawed, it is but one aspect of wider educational inequality in Irish society and of the deeper class inequality which causes it. The COVID-19