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Following #ThisIsNotConsent protests across the country after the Cork Rape Trial, Leo Varadkar has commissioned a legal expert to examine rules around evidence in rape trials. The government had been forced to listen and respond, and Steph Hanlon argues it is important to push for more urgent reform of the
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As the drama around SIF continues to unfold, Eamonn McCann brilliantly unpicks the scandal to reveal exactly how these kind of schemes sustain a sectarian and corrupt system. The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme seemed to many to mark a new low in the ethics, so to speak, of Stormont politics.
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The mid-term elections in the US were a deeply polarising affair. But were there also signs of a new politics emerging? Marnie Holborow assesses the prospects for a progressive politics in the post-Trump era. The results of the elections have confirmed that the US is still very sharply
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The third and final part of John Molyneux’s brilliant essay on World War 1 looks at the imperial ambitions of the respective ruling classes who sent millions to their death and sums up the ‘bleak and tragic’ answer to ‘What did they die for?’ Part 1 is available here.
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As Palestinians mourn the death of three boys by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Chair of Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign Derry, Catherine Hutton, looks at how the daily realities faced by Palestinians are supported by Israeli policy, such as the new Nation State Law, and why that means we must
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The second part of John Molyneux’s extensive essay on WW1 and what led to one of the deadliest wars in human history. Here, John looks back at the events leading up to the war to dispel the notion that WW1 was a ‘chapter of accidents’. Part 1 is available
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As the world remembers the centenary of the end of World War 1, John Molyneux asks what those in the deadliest war in history died for, in an extensive three part series for Rebel. World War 1, which began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918, was
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The housing situation in the North is worsening by the day. Eamonn McCann, who was a founding member of the Derry Housing Action Committee in 1968, suggests that we need to rediscover a sixties spirit of radicalism to solve the homelessness crisis today. We had a housing crisis back in
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The James McClean poppy controversy has again flared up. Eamonn McCann gives his take on this issue, suggesting that opposition to the poppy is a righteous stance. Sergio Agüero seemed unconcerned as he stood for a minutes silence while a poppy wreath was laid by a man in army garb
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Just days after Peter Casey won 20% of the Irish presidential vote, longtime socialist and anti-racism campaigner John Molyneux analyses the campaign the gave rise to his vote, the role played by the media, and the job that faces the left, in the aftermath of the election. There is
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Brazilian presidential elections take place this week and the corrupt right-winger Bolsonaro is set to take power. In a interview exclusively for Rebel, Sean Purdy of the Universidade de São Paulo speaks to Brian Kelly about the factors which paved the way for Bolsonaro’s ascendancy and how the