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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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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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Writing on behalf of the All-Ireland NHS campaign, Chris Carroll analyses the limits of the current plan for fixing healthcare: Sláintecare. He argues the lessons of history show that instead of its technical approach we need a broad movement to win a 32-county universal healthcare system. “Medicine is
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With phrases like “protect the vulnerable” & “underlying conditions” currently all around us, disability activist Ruth Flood looks at the horrendous treatment of disabled people under capitalism. The Covid-19 pandemic has been an absolute disaster for disabled people. From the cutting of services and the lack of particular supports
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As cases continue to rise, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the only way to avoid a winter crisis and future rolling lockdowns is an All-Ireland Zero Covid strategy which protects workers and puts public health first. As we approach the end of October, we are entering the kind of
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In the wake of the heavy-handed policing of Debenhams workers and Black Lives Matter protesters, Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn takes apart the myth that the police are there to simply ‘protect and serve’. In Ireland today there is an argument put forward by many about the Gardaí and it goes