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North- Bonfire debate can ignite conflict

In the aftermath of the Eleventh Night bonfires last year, Belfast City Council passed a Sinn Féin motion authorising the forced clearing of bonfire sites. When this policy was implemented against an anti-internment bonfire in the Divis area of west Belfast, it
Jul 14, 2018

One year of Varadkar’s spin & neo-liberalism

By Paul Murphy TD A year in office as Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar has intensified the neo-liberal direction of the Irish economy and society, while also attempting to cover up the resulting worsening inequality and social crises with spin. The method by which
Jul 5, 2018

US: Socialist candidate Ocasio-Cortez shocks establishment

By Leon Pinsky, Patrick Ayers and Tom Crean, Socilalist Alternative (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in the US)  In what can only be described as a political earthquake, left-wing insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent and Queens Democratic Party boss Joe Crowley
Jul 2, 2018

Clamouring demand grows to…Separate Church & State

By Cillian Gillespie The eighth amendment, passed in September 1983, symbolised everything that is insidious and rotten in the historic tie that has bound the Catholic Church and the Southern Irish State together since its foundation in 1922. It’s passing ensured that
Jul 1, 2018

The global fight for LGBTQ+ rights

By Thomas White Internationally LGBTIQ+ people are under attack with crackdowns on the queer community going hand in hand with a general rising trend of repression against protest movements. Prominent attempted roll backs of queer rights in the US have been a
Jun 28, 2018

Childish Gambino’s “This is America”

Reviewed by Monika Janas Accompanied by cheery music with warm gospel voices a black man picks up a guitar from a chair, sits down and starts strumming as the camera moves onto a solitary figure in a warehouse. The latter turns to
Jun 27, 2018

Ireland’s capitalist model- Tax haven for the 1%

By Dean O’Donnell A recent economic study revealed Ireland as likely being the largest tax haven in the world. Jointly carried out by academics in Berkeley University and the University of Copenhagen “The Missing Profits of Nations” estimated that €90 billion of
Jun 27, 2018
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Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden

Divide & Rule: Labour & the Partition of Ireland