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Brian O’Boyle casts a sharp eye over Budget 2019, suggesting that beyond the headlines the government has not shifted beyond its corporate agenda. Budget 2019 comes ten years after the start of the Great Recession. Back then, no measure was deemed too excessive, as Fianna Fáil took €12.5
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Stewart Smyth looks at Roddy Doyle’s new film Rosie, arguing the movie sheds light on the reality of Ireland’s ever-deteriorating housing crisis. Another week in La La Land, or what is more commonly referred to as the official response to the housing crisis in Ireland. The huge
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Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the supreme court was preceded by protests, strikes, and outrage in response to multiple sexual assaults claims against him. Writing for Rebel, Rachel Cohen takes a look back at Kavanaugh’s record before his nomination, the outburst of struggle across the states, and the role
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Now that we have repealed the 8th, how can we repeal the rotten system that created it? Marxism 2018–Ireland’s largest socialist conference–is the place to discuss exactly that. Join incredible activists and writers from across Ireland, and around the world, as we discuss how we create a
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Hillary Clinton has been invited to receive an honorary degree for her ‘outstanding contribution to peace and reconciliation’ at Queen’s University, Belfast. Paul Loughran, organiser of protesters countering the honorary degree, argues that these accolades could not be further from the truth. It is paradoxical that Hillary Clinton should
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The Ballymurphy and Loughlinisland Massacres have both recently been the subject of critically acclaimed documentaries. Here, Aódhan Donnelly takes a look at the role of the state in both massacres and what light that sheds on why the state continues to deny justice to victims. Last month, the PSNI arrested
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On the anniversary of 5 October 1968, when Civil Rights activists marched to Derry and were brutally attacked by the RUC, precipitating the birth of The People’s Democracy, Matt Collins has written an extensive piece exclusively for Rebel, covering the events of 50 years ago and the whitewashing of
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October 3rd saw ten thousand march through the streets of Dublin, protesting the housing policies that have created a crisis. In his latest piece for Rebel, Dr Stewart Smyth looks at how problematic policies have left more homeless and with less opportunity to find housing. Late 2018 will be remembered
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This week marks the anniversary of the death of Marek Edelman – a Jew who survived the Warsaw ghetto, but who the Israeli state would rather erase from historical recognition. Gerard Stewart looks back at the legacy of the holocaust resistance hero. A youth activist of the General Jewish Labour Bund,
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Amidst the collapse of Stormont and the fallout from the Brexit referendum, interest in the national question has been reinvigorated. In a comprehensive piece originally published for the Irish Marxist Review, Sean Mitchell discusses the potentiality of a United Ireland and sets out the socialist strategy for approaching the national
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Constance Markievicz became the first female MP 100 years ago. David Swanson takes a look at the background and politics of this remarkable person. Constance Markievicz’s legacy will be forever etched as a beacon of example for those interested in radical history. An uncompromising revolutionist for much of her