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Dirty Old Town – The Myth of Dublin Domhnall O’Gaothne Despite what many may assume, the song Dirty Old Town was not about Dublin but instead Manchester, though if it were to be written today, would there be a place more fitting? Dublin is rotting to its core right in
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The Communist Split in Short Alexander Homits Introduction The purpose of this text is to assess the shortcomings, failures and issues that surrounded the split of the communist movement in Ireland. The analysis is based on discussions with former and current members of the three different communist organizations in Ireland,
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Why We Need to Finish Our Fight for Independence – No Shamrocks for Shysters protest 6th & 7th of March. An analysis of our loss of sovereignty & dignity as well as a call to join the author at a protest against it. April Maria Sheehan Corkery We celebrate the men
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Kilkenny Says No to the Privatisation of Social Housing Stephen Delaney The city of Kilkenny was the setting for a small but important protest on Saturday gone, where the issue of social housing privatisation was brought to the fore by a small group of activists from mixed backgrounds, Nationalist, Republican
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War in Iran By Alexander Rakhmetov We awoke last morning to the United States of America invading Iran and greeted the evening with the news that Khamenei is dead. It has legitimated this using the standard clichés of bringing democracy to the Middle East. Memories of Iraq spring forth to
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Omar Afzal An Irish Pakistani TikToker has recently received death threats from her co-ethnics for publicly sharing her experience of abuse and integration difficulties within the Irish Pakistani community[1]. This extreme reaction is nothing out of the ordinary – many South Asian communities across the Western world expect their members
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They Are Killing the Dogs, They Are Killing the Cats: The Calculating Cruelty of Colonial Deflection April Maria Sheehan Corkery An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion. They told us they were eating the dogs. It was a lie, of course, one more piece
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Why the Bourgeois Press Still Smears Us Peter Irvine From the birth of our Republican struggle, the pen of the oppressor has always sought to drown out the voice of the Republic. When Henry Joy McCracken wrote that the “rich always betray the poor”, he was not merely describing the
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Corporate Power in Ireland Under Scrutiny at Maynooth University Report Launch A new report examining the extent of corporate influence over Irish public policy and everyday life was launched at an event in Dublin this week, drawing activists, researchers and independent media to discuss what authors describe as a growing
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Say No to Diageo! : A Call to Action on Guinness’ Price Hikes Students, I am appalled and insulted at the recent price hikes by Diageo amounting to no more than 20 cent on the already rapidly rising price of a pint. If I wasn’t already being bittered and barred
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Healthcare Assistants at Northside Home Care Services to Begin Indefinite Strike Over Pay Dispute Healthcare assistants employed by Northside Home Care Services (NHCS) will commence indefinite strike action from 16 January, following a dispute over exclusion from a national pay agreement covering Section 39 healthcare workers. The strike, organised by
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Social Conservatives Should Embrace Anti-Imperialism Peter Irvine For too long, social conservatives in Europe, Ireland and beyond have been drawn into a false political dichotomy that suggests the defence of traditional values requires alignment with neoliberal foreign policy, Atlanticism or interventionism. This divide is, in reality, manufactured and contrary to