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The new year has opened in much the same vein as the old year, with far right agitators stirring up protests and hatred of migrants across the country. In this article, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin examines what the anti-fascist movement have gotten right and wrong over the past couple of
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As people across the North prepare to go to the polls tomorrow, Alexandra Day takes stock of a rotten Tory budget that has faced little or no resistance from the big parties, arguing that it’s time to strike back with People Before Profit. The Tory budget – cuts upon cuts
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The British Government and the European Union have agreed a deal on the Protocol. Somhairle Mag Uidhir analyses what The Windsor Framework might mean for the DUP, and for politics in the North more generally. Rishi Sunak’s Windsor Framework may have a grander title than its predecessor, The Protocol,
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The Fianna Fáil party is in trouble. Some of its TDs want to get rid of Micheal Martin but they don’t know who could replace him. Red C polling places the party at 13% of the national vote. An internal report found that Fianna Fáil had become “indistinguishable” from
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In November the Minister for Communities announced plans to reclassify the Northern Ireland Housing Executive as a housing ‘mutual’. Housing activist Glyn Robbins explores the record of mutuals in Britain, arguing that this reclassification amounts to a privatisation that will make matters worse. Soon after being elected in 1997, Tony
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2021 has started out with Ireland, north and south, being in its worst position since the pandemic began. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin takes both governments to task for their Covid response, arguing that it has been nothing short of neoliberal catastrophe. We have entered the year 2021 in total disaster. Ireland
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Recent headlines have celebrated Stormont’s plan to shake up housing. Housing expert Stewart Smyth analyses the announcement and argues that worryingly, privatisation looms large. There was a lot of fanfare recently when Minister for Communities, Carál Ní Chuilín (Sinn Féin), announced what she called the “most radical shake-up
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Jerry Maguire, hospitality worker and Unite Hospitality member, condemns a shambolic Stormont which has failed to support workers, instead putting their health on the line. It’s often remarked that a week is a long time in politics. But when Harold Wilson first coined that expression, he couldn’t have
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Eamonn McCann on the reaction to latest blow dealt to the Bloody Sunday families, followed by a statement from The Bloody Sunday March For Justice Committee on Sinn Féin’s decision to welcome the commander in chief of the Parachute Regiment within 24 hours. Many people outside Derry say – and
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The Special Criminal Court and the associated ‘Offences Against the State Act’ has been a long-standing tool of the government to subvert the normal rule of law. Alexandra Day argues that it should be abolished immediately. The Special Criminal Court (SCC) and the associated ‘Offences Against the State Act’
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The recent treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters by the PSNI laid bare the institutional racism of the ‘New Northern Ireland’. In a piece which takes stock of the inaction of Stormont over more than a decade, Rebel exposes the depth of the problem. On Tuesday 9 June 2020, Justice
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John Hume deserves his place in history as a man of peace. But the sentimentalised view of him presented in most of the media in the days since his death is far from the full truth. I knew John for decades. We disagreed about politics, frequently in angry tones. But