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The school secretaries and caretakers strike looks like it will enter a second week without the Minister for Education, Helen McEntee, even meeting the union, never mind coming up with a settlement. The Fórsa members are on strike under the headline of “Pension Parity Now!” Yet again, the government has
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Community is not fixed—like everything else in society, it changes as the material conditions of the world change. Today, conservative myths of community are being mobilised not only by the far right, but regrettably by sections of the left too. If we’re serious about building a better world,
Culture
LAUNDRY TODAY OR NAKED TOMORROW. So says the sign which graces the windows of the ‘Excel Dry Cleaners’, a dry-cleaning and laundry service just outside Temple Bar in Dublin. A stone’s throw away is the ‘Dolphin House’ on Crane Lane, formerly the Dolphin Hotel. Though the Temple Bar
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Panos Garganos of the International Socialists in Greece (Sosialistikó Ergatikó Kómma, SEK) writes how anger against the right-wing New Democracy government is rising over wages and increased militarisation and explains how this radicalisation is beginning to be reflected on the streets and in the unions. Workers all across Greece