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River James, who has lived at the estate with his partner for over six years, is a well-regarded local comrade due to his longtime involvement in the struggle against the planned evictions of 14 families, including his own, by the British vulture fund LRC Group.
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For now, the Farmer Jim case is a local dispute with national implications. It brings the question of whether solidarity with Palestine can be silenced in a Dublin park or in public spaces as individual expression and who gets to decide such.
Critical Analysis
This is a response to Chris Cullen’s most recent article. It is the kind of slop Marxism that Aontacht seems to push on slow news days. It is of an emerging genus of expat middle aged socialists and republicans that we seem to nurture at this publication.
Critical Analysis
Ed Sheeran sacked Macklemore at the behest of a Zionist mentioned in the Epstein files. The backlash has been swift and brutal, though not as brutal as the genocide in Gaza that Sheeran and his Zionist friends like Kraft pretend is not happening.
Critical Analysis
What Ulyanov is doing is not simply criticism of the Ukrainian government. It is the acceptance of the core scheme of Russian state propaganda. This is not analysis. It is the justification of aggression dressed up as “anti-imperialism”.
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Four pro-Palestine activists from Derry have been fined a combined £375 for their participation in a "peaceful and brief" 2024 march of four hundred people organised by Derry IPSC. Their Socialist Republican barrister is finding grounds for appeal.
Critical Analysis
Receiving the refusal was extremely difficult for me. After years of studying, working, and building my professional career, I had hoped that continuing my education would open a new chapter in my life. What I had worked so hard to obtain was suddenly put out of reach.
We encourage Aontacht readers to join the ‘Revolutionary Bloc’ at the protest which opposes not merely Trump, but NATO, the EU and the US Empire altogether, as well as the British occupation of the 6 counties.
How can a student in Gaza be asked to provide complex and unrealistic documents and papers, while we are living under the weight of a war and genocide that has stretched on for three years?
The divisions in People Before Profit have a material base and a political significance for the socialist movement.
The Western Left must stop backing Zelensky's conscription machine. Ukraine is not a sovereign country. The people of Donbass, terrorised by Kiev, should be left alone; the real task is decolonising a Brussels-controlled Ukraine from IMF/EU/US rule and its far-right collaborators.
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The visa refusal was a huge shock to me. For a moment, I felt that the dream I had worked toward for years had collapsed in front of me. But I did not lose hope. I appealed the visa refusal, and I am still holding on to my dream of studying and continuing my education.
With the rise neoliberalism, the student union undergoes both a discursive change and a corresponding structural adjustment, leading to an apolitical shift where students are regarded as consumers and the union itself as mere service provider.
Once upon a time it was easy to define anti-Semitism; the phrase is self-explanatory. However, nowadays, the waters have been muddied thanks to an international campaign by the Israeli state, Zionist organisations, which in many cases are the same state, and the bourgeois press.
When folk start getting involved in left politics they often weathervane from struggle to struggle and do not know how to engage in anything effectively. Just Stop Oil are the quintessential synthesis of global idealism and local nihilism wrapped in class-blind imperial core thinking.
Jim O'Callaghan is the authority for the corporal bureaucratic control of human bodies within the State. And he is also tasked with maintaining the Good Friday Agreement. As extensions of control over bodies, his work product makes sense in an unnerving and totalizing sort of way.
The residents of Teach Torthaí, an autonomous social centre in Dublin, were awoken at 6 am on the 11th of September by the police raiding the centre and seizing their electronics at gunpoint.
Before Aontacht, there was no socialist outlet in the country that was not a closed club for one specific party or tendency.
Aontacht Media would like to draw your attention to avenues to support both Ukrainian and Russian anti-war political prisoners.
On Saturday past in Donegal, the Betty Sinclair Branch of the Communist Party of Ireland held the annual Peadar O’Donnell Autumn School, the school centred on the theme “Sovereignty in an Imperialist World.”
Being accepted by a university in Ireland does not mean that I can simply leave Gaza and begin my studies. I still need to complete the visa process and meet the financial requirements necessary for my journey and studies. For someone in my situation, this is an enormous challenge.
Saudi Arabia called Trump twice begging for help. He said no. Yemen now controls the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the ‘Axis of Resistance’ has its hand on the throat of global trade.
We, in the strongest terms and language possible, oppose the visit of Donald Trump to Ireland. The fact that it is to his own Golf Course is immaterial. We in fact believe he should be arrested and questioned on the following grounds.