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Ireland’s Sole Cow Sanctuary Seeking Donations
Heartstone Veganic Sanctuary has issued an urgent appeal for funding, stating that its finances are in a “critical situation”. The lives of 23 cows are at stake.
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Enough With A to B Marches, We Need Confrontational Politics!
Nearly all of the political activity we are engaged in as a movement is concentrated at the low-confrontation end of the scale, and so we are not learning the lessons necessary to win the fight against capitalism and imperialism.
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Campaign To Save Moore Street Rallies Public Support
A group which is active in the campaign to save the site and one which Aontacht readers should give their support to is Save Moore Street from Demolition, who are independent of any political party, while some organisers are socialist republicans by conviction.
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Community Raises Funds for Burned Neighbours Facing Eviction
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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DCC Censors Farmer's Palestinian Flag At Market
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
If You’re Not Thinking About Direct Action, It's Time To Think In Context And Cop On
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.
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Music Is Not Political, Says Political Ed Sheeran
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.
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A Response From A Donetsk Resident And Ukrainian Leftist: Who Speaks For Eastern Ukraine?
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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Derry Activists Targeted and Convicted For Peaceful Palestine Protest
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
My Academic Journey and the Struggle to Continue My Education
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.
Critical Analysis
It Wasn’t Just My Visa That Was Rejected, It Was My Entire Future
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.
Critical Analysis
Nothing Outside the State: The Structural and Discursive Production of Political Subjectivity in the Student Movement
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.