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Industrial School Survivors: Meeting In Limerick To Sign Up For Entitlements
A meeting is to take place on the 3rd of September at 11am in Limerick City where survivors of industrial and reformatory schools can sign up to avail of entitlements.
April Sheehan Corkery
Critical Analysis
The Patron Saint Of The 9 To 5: Dolly Parton, The Gay Icon And The Dignity Of Working Women
Dolly belonged to a different America: an America of 2 room log cabins and no running water, of fathers paying the doctor with cornmeal, women clocking into whatever work they could get to support themselves and their families and being paid less for it.
Critical Analysis
Don’t Mention The War: Why Is Séan Russell And Self-Reflection Off Limits?
Republicanism should not be a cult. It should be a living political tradition, capable of growth, capable of change, and capable of admitting when it went badly wrong.
Critical Analysis
Seán Russell: Why I Don’t Believe He Should Be Commemorated
The defence sometimes made is that Russell was not an ideological Nazi. That is irrelevant. You do not have to wear a swastika to be a collaborator. Material support for a genocidal regime makes you part of its war effort.
Critical Analysis
Jason Arday's Death: The Human Cost Of “The Culture War”
A person was reduced to an arbitrary, pointless battle in the culture war. A father, partner, brother, uncle and son was turned into a monument and then into a burning effigy.
Critical Analysis
Jason Arday: Victim Of “The Culture War” Or Compulsive Liar That Got Caught Out?
The Internet is currently debating Jason Arday and I have been tasked with unpacking this nonsense because somehow a professor resigning from the most elitist university that ever toffed amidst plagiarism accusations has become a left vs right issue.
Critical Analysis
AI, The New Class Struggle and the Need For Workers’ Control
The main question is: how do we move on from here? AI does not have to be evil. Like any tool used under capitalism, it will always be used to deepen inequality and take from the worker. The problem is, and always will be, capitalism.
Critical Analysis
The Ulm 5: Denied Their Basic Rights By A State That Will Never Escape Its Authoritarianism
West German denazification was a failure and this is the result of it. By 1951, the Allies had handed denazification over to German authorities, who passed amnesty laws that reinstated thousands of Nazi judges, prosecutors, and civil servants into the very institutions now prosecuting the Ulm 5.
Critical Analysis
The Slievenamon Fires: Burning Through Our Own Ignorance
The Slievenamon fires are a serious education in what happens when you refuse to understand your own environment and refuse to decolonise.
Critical Analysis
Left Appeasing NATO’s Warmongering, Fronta Poblachtach Working With Russians In Aughinish Scandal
The liberal left demands closure of Aughinish Alumina in the name of Ukraine and the environment, while Fronta Poblachtach has issued Russian apologia, and its members have actively cultivated relationships with representatives of the Russian state.
Critical Analysis
“Immigrants Are The Real Danger," Says The Most Violent Community In The European Capital of Femicide
The statistics are not just bad; they are a continental scandal. Northern Ireland’s femicide rate is the second highest in the whole continent of Europe.
Critical Analysis
How Bonfire Season Became Pogrom Season
Loyalist bonfire season used to be about harassing and attacking our northern brethren, burning tricoulours and papal effigies. Now, it is an annual carnival of orchestrated racist violence. Interestingly, it has in its own twisted way embraced an inverse multiculturalism.