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As anti-racists, trade unions and others prepare to gather to oppose the far-right in Belfast, People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll looks at how racism and fascism can be opposed. Sinister forces have taken to the streets of Belfast in recent weeks, in an effort to coalesce a
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In the last few months a wave of rank-and-file teacher strikes has swept the US. Rebel spoke with Dana Blanchard—a former elementary school teacher and union organiser in California for almost fifteen years, who reported on the strikes for Socialist Worker (US)—about this industrial action, and
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of James Connolly, Shaun Harkin (author of the James Connolly Reader) guest edits Rebel for a day. Below Shaun takes a look at the politics of this great socialist. James Connolly was an exemplary working class rebel. He had grown up in
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In the wake of the landslide vote to Repeal, Kieran Allen looks at how the vote was won and what else can be achieved by people power in ‘conservative’ Ireland. The huge Yes vote to repeal the 8th Amendment has finally put an end to the myth that the Irish
68' Legacies
In the 1960s American capitalism seemed to be stronger than ever. In a few short years, however, the country was gripped by upheaval and protest. In the second edition of our ’68 Legacies series, award winning historian Brian Kelly argues that “even regimes which appear stable and impregnable over long
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Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, a leading women’s equality campaigner and founder of both the Irish Women Workers’ Union and the Irish Women’s Franchise League, described Connolly as the “soundest and most thorough-going feminist of all the Irish Labour men.” Connolly welcomed the Irish women’s rebellion and thought
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The eruption of World War 1 was a cataclysmic event. Ruling elites sent millions of their citizens to certain death on the battlefields of Europe. Connolly opposed the entire war from the outset and opposed support for the British war effort in Ireland. Instead of support for imperialist slaughter he
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Connolly joined the trade union movement in Edinburgh in the late 1880’s. He was an active trade unionist in Scotland, Ireland and the United States and believed unions were the most effective means of challenging poverty and building working class solidarity. Not just that however, Connolly advocated a form
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Connolly was from his earliest days of political activism an advocate of complete independence for Ireland from the British Empire. He became a Marxist on his return from service in the British Army in Ireland. His understanding of the relationship between Irish self-determination and the struggle for socialism built
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100 years ago Ireland was rocked by a conscription crisis that culminated in a General Strike. To launch Rebel’s Radical History series, Paul O’Brien takes a look at this historic period. During the 2014 centenary ‘celebrations’ of the Great War it seemed that having a grandfather or relative
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The DUP has been quick to dampen claims the repeal vote will have an impact on the North. Eamonn McCann disputes this, arguing that Foster and co are out of touch even with their own voting base when it comes to the right to choose. Ian Paisley, Sammy Wilson and
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The adoption registration scandal has reopened a dark episode in our recent past. Mike Milotte—an award winning journalist and author of Banished Babies: The Secret History of Ireland’s Baby Export Business—explores the background to this scandal, and the implications for an Irish state still unwilling to fully