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The American ruling class learned a lesson from their defeat in Vietnam. Seeing the brutality of war makes people rise up against it. Coverage of the mass killings of Vietnamese civilians – the naked girl running distraught from the 1969 My Lai massacre and the soldiers returning in body bags – fed
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Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens in government have continued to allow our airspace to be used to transport arms to Israel, and have consistently refused to sanction Israel. This makes them complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Marnie Holborow argues, for this rotten record alone, any government politician
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As people around the world protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mary Smith draws some lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Campaign against South Africa, arguing that more urgently than ever, we need to build a global BDS movement against Israel. The scale and barbarity of the Holocaust can be
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Why should the Left oppose sanctions on Russia but call for sanctions on Israel or Apartheid South Africa? Is this inconsistent? John Molyneux takes on the argument. When it comes to Ukraine and condemning war we know our government and other Western rulers have double standards. They denounce the Russian
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As Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine continues, the US, EU and UK have begun introducing harsh sanctions on Russia. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the aim and impact of these sanctions and makes the case that they ought to be opposed on the basis that they will hurt ordinary