Critical Analysis
Each country adapts the culture war to their own conditions. While the same political and financial elites are as firmly entrenched as ever, serving multinational corporations and US-led western imperialism, a circus of performativity is dominating public life.
Critical Analysis
As a grassroots (unfunded) working-class anti-imperialist organisation, we do not deny the importance of anti-racist mass mobilisation. But we must ask why outrage continues to emerge in fragmented, selective bursts that leave both the underlying social order untouched, and activists exhausted.
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The HSE, stuck price haggling with a multinational pharmaceutical lobby consuming taxpayer money, declines to reimburse the only medication for a rare chronic disease.
Critical Analysis
When it comes to trusting people with our votes, at least, anti-immigration sentiment remains a minority camp in Ireland.
News
Sinn Féin members are expressing increasing discontent with the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald after poor results in the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections.
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A tense standoff looks to be continuing over the weekend between locals and the forces of the State at the Garrymore Bog in County Laois.
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At a protest outside the Dáil today, campaigners called on Enterprise Minister Peter Burke to intervene over hundreds of planned redundancies at Covalent.
When it comes to trusting people with our votes, at least, anti-immigration sentiment remains a minority camp in Ireland.
Sinn Féin members are expressing increasing discontent with the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald after poor results in the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections.
Aontacht Media can reveal that the private security firm contracted by Arnotts has ties to Israel and Big Tech companies, sparking deep alarm among community groups, following the death of Congolese man Yves Sakila, who died after being forcefully restrained by the firm's guards.
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
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The Silk Road Café is being forced to close by state and EU bureaucrats as part of the draconian security measures being erected around Dublin Castle.
A video circulating online has reignited debate over Garda stop-and-search tactics after footage appeared to show two Gardaí physically confronting and threatening a young Irish teenager during an incident in Dublin.
Today I attended the unity protest following the murder of Yves Sakila by the Arnotts security staff. Death at the hands of private security staff is not unprecedented here, in the past few years at least two other men have been killed by overly-aggressive night club bouncers.
Bertie swapped brown envelopes while in power for political capital on hate against brown and black people. Irony: he and FF built the crises they blame on immigrants. The Irish right blaze a path for FF rule at the expense of everyone darker than milky tea.
“It is cynical because he is not advocating for himself or his party, he is threatening neglect. That he is the feckin mayor as well makes it hilariously cynical, ” wrote one person.
The state and mainstream media are comfortable for the public response of this tragedy to be trapped between a dishonest strain of anti-racism politics by the NGO ecosystem and liberal left, and fear-politics.
Big business and shady politicians want to divide us. If they can split us into tiny groups based on our race, where we come from, the languages we speak, and who we love, it becomes easier for them to distract us from the big questions.
Socialist Republicans from the Revolutionary Housing League have taken a locked up, vacant building in the Liberties from the hands of capitalist speculators and are now turning it, via the kind of direct action they have become known for, into a community center.
Activists in Dublin from the Socialist Republican party Lasair Dhearg have removed the Drury street sign, named after 16th century British colonialist William Drury, and renamed the street after Bobby Sands.
Aontacht Media can reveal that the private security firm contracted by Arnotts has ties to Israel and Big Tech companies, sparking deep alarm among community groups, following the death of Congolese man Yves Sakila, who died after being forcefully restrained by the firm's guards.
This work will be the republication of a number of articles and excerpts thereof; with additional commentary suited to the moment attached, of pieces from the Ulster-focused Red Hand magazine.
The Congolese Community in Ireland (CCI) has called a vigil on Dublin’s Henry Street from 12-2pm, Tuesday 19 May, in response to the alleged killing of Yves Sakila on Friday 15 May.