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As Summerhill occupation activists take over abandoned properties in Dublin, People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett details how Ireland’s housing crisis is not an accident but a policy that benefits the few over the many. The human misery being suffered by tens of thousands of women, children and
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Voices are growing within the British establishment for an amnesty for perpetrators of state violence. Eamonn McCann takes a look at the background to these demands, and the tangled web of negotiations between the British State and Sinn Féin. We are undergoing another bout of argy-bargy about the possibility
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There has been an alarming rise of the far right in the last few years. United Against Racism member John Molyneux looks at the root of this threat and how we can resist it. On a global level, the threat posed by the far right and by outright fascists is
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As the Stormont crisis trundles on, anger is beginning to grow. People Before Profit activist Fiona Ferguson gives her take. Another week, another squabble about talks at Stormont. This week, Leo Varadkar suggested that talks would reconvene soon, an act condemned by Arlene Foster who again reiterated that there would
68' Legacies
The events of May ‘68 in France were an unprecedented eruption of people power that shook the world. In the next installment of our 1968 series, TCD student Aislinn Shanahan Daly looks back at the student uprising in France that changed Europe forever. The events of May ‘68 in France
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As Pride approaches this weekend, Eamonn McCann discusses how the DUP and inherent sectarianism at Stormont have stalled equality. The panic of the DUP about the possibility of Westminster decriminalising abortion in the North goes to the root of the party’s attitude to “moral” issues as well as to
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In the second installment of our subseries Rebel Women, Madeleine Johansson gives her thoughts on the topic of ongoing debate, sex work, and how we on the left should relate to it. The debates around sex work have changed significantly over the last hundred years or so; from the moral
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Politics is becoming more and more polarised. How does the radical left grow in this context? Kieran Allen offers a solution. The present social order is showing remarkable signs of decay. Slowing economic dynamism and growing geopolitical rivalries have produced a dangerous and chaotic world. Overlaid on these signs of
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How can Palestine escape from the misery imposed on it by the Israeli state? Here eminent historian Ilan Pappé makes the case for a one-state solution to the crisis; arguing that a new generation of Palestinians and their supporters are taking up the call as the only way out
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After Ian Paisley’s 30 day ban, Eamonn McCann’s call is loud and clear—Ian must go now! Watching Ian Paisley’s whingeing, wheedling “apology” performance in the Commons today, it was difficult to avoid the thought that it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. A bigoted, sectarian,
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Pope Francis will soon be visiting Ireland. For many people Francis is a progressive figure, even an Anti-Capitalist. But how do such claims square with the actual practice of the Pope, both past and present? Historian Brian Kelly examines this question for Rebel. In the five years since he
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As the Parliamentary Standards Committee recommends Ian Paisley Junior be suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days, Eamonn McCann looks at the flurry of allegations circling the DUP and asks who benefits from the party’s apparent greed. Day after day after day, the truth comes dropping slowly.