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As Stormont releases its ‘roadmap to recovery’ Rebel details the road already taken by the Executive during the COVID-19 crisis – filled with confused intentions and potentially deadly missteps. Interested observers of the Stormont Executive’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic might have been somewhat surprised by last Thursday’
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Two years on from An Bhliain Dhearg (‘The Red Year’), the Irish language continues to be an elephant in the room for those desperate for Stormont to get back up and running. Dream Dearg activist Somhairle Mag Uidhir revisits the lessons of that year of activism. The stand-out events
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Just days after Peter Casey won 20% of the Irish presidential vote, longtime socialist and anti-racism campaigner John Molyneux analyses the campaign the gave rise to his vote, the role played by the media, and the job that faces the left, in the aftermath of the election. There is
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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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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
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John Molyneux examines how a corporate agenda is seeking to hijack equality, and how real equality can actually be won. ‘I believe in equality’ said Leo Varadkar when he was supporting Josepha Madigan in her spat with the Archbishop over the right of women to be priests. Obviously we can