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Students revolting, Trump’s conviction, Genocide Joe’s continued support for Israel and an Unholy Alliance on the far right, Bill V. Mullen, analyses the various political processes at work in the US today. The Global Student Intifada launched on U.S. university campuses this Spring has shaken the U.
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As the US presidential election begins to gather steam, Joe Allen looks at the far right threat and the dangerous game being played by the Democrats. Allen asks if Genocide Joe has the support to win or whether a new left alternative should take their place instead. During the first
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2023 closed in the United States with the emergence of the most significant antiwar campaigning in two decades. Joe Allen writes. Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza since Hamas’ October 7th attack has produced the most significant antiwar campaigning since the election of Barack Obama in 2008. For the first
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin offers a scathing eulogy to a man who wrought havoc on countless countries and peoples across the globe. Whose scars are still borne by the global South and whose passing must inspire us to fight every future Kissinger that may burden the Earth with imperialism in the
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“Either the power of popular outrage—channelled into strikes, mass protest and rebellion—will restrain a murderous elite who show no hesitation in carrying out flagrant war crimes, or we will emerge at the other end inhabiting a world in tatters—permanently diminished and fractured by western rulers’ complicity in
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In Part 2 of a two-part article on Palestine, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the context around Palestinian resistance and the hypocrisy of Western leaders in selectively supporting the right to resist. Part 1 is available here. “Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate
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Unimaginable horrors are being inflicted on Gaza by the Israeli State, supported by Western imperialism. In the first of two articles on Palestine, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at how the ground was prepared for this genocidal attack. “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not
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This week marks a year since the eruption of major protests in Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Farhang Morady explains the historical background to the protests and assesses the prospect of radical change. In 2022, Iran witnessed a major political upheaval as street
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A €1.2 billion fine against Meta has been upheld by the Court of Justice of the EU. Kieran Allen explains how the Irish Data Protection Commissioner fought tooth and nail to stop this happening. In recent months there have been a series of news reports indicating that the Irish
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Kieran Allen explains how the world is a much more dangerous place a year on from Russia’s illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. In the days before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Biden gathered the most-hard line Eastern European members of NATO and told them
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The abortion rights movement has been rocked by the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, although the full effects of it are yet to be felt. Brigid Purcell takes a look at the background to the decision, including the rise of the Christian Right, the weak response of
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As Putin continues to be bogged down in Ukraine and Russian war crimes stack up, people are rightly applauding the resistance of the Ukrainian people. What is not being discussed, however, is how this war is no longer just a war of national defence against the Russian invasion, but that