Critical Analysis
Reprint: The student movement must develop a liberatory political programme
This year proves that united as students, we can pressure the authorities and win on important issues.
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Critical Analysis
Reprint: Internationalisation of the academic sector cannot be separated from colonial legacy
One certainty about the third-level education sector is that it would be substantially harder to maintain without international students who are used as the cash cows of universities in Ireland and the United Kingdom alike.
Critical Analysis
Totalising Politicisation: Voluntary Associationism in Student Unions for Progressive Ends
The closed-shop student union model has paradoxically led to an all-encompassing, yet strikingly unrepresentative model of democracy.
Critical Analysis
Iran and Israel, A relationship of contradictions.
This piece will address an increasingly problematic narrative I have been seeing in news media and discussions in apparent “left-wing” outlets in the West.
TCDSU is the most democratic it has ever been, via grassroots participation
Throughout the year, the union held consistent meetings of the Campaigns Committee, on topics including but not limited to the housing crisis, masters’ fees and period products.
News
Maynooth's New Strategic Plan Faces Protests By Postgraduate Workers
This is part of recent escalations nationwide by the union, which has balloted across universities in support of Collective Action.
Critical Analysis
Stand With Palestine
The editorial committee of Aontacht Media stands with the people of Palestine at this hour.
News
Maynooth University "Systematically Excludes" Staff From Key Decisions in Trend Towards Commercialisation
In recent weeks the Maynooth University executive staff have come under fire over their recent decision to appoint internal members to the governing authority rather than elect them as has been the case in years gone by.
Critical Analysis
In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false
Our third-level institutions profess to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in their words. Yet, in their actions, they increase fees and rents, put our teachers on insecure contracts and foster unethical connections with greedy politicians, big business and unsavoury industries.
News
The Far Right and Migrants
Young people from the area were egged on by several far right agitators, resulting in violent attacks on migrants and the burning of a refugee camp.
Fine Gael
Far from an “opportunity”, the Premiership of Liz Truss spells jeopardy for Ireland
On Sunday, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence, Fine Gael’s Simon Coveney, remarked on the recent election of Liz Truss as Leader of the Conservative Party and British Prime Minister as “an opportunity to try and reset relationships” between Britain, Ireland and the European Union.
Student Unions Must Become Radical or They'll Become Redundant
The alienation of our union’s main decision-making body from the grassroots is by design, not by accident.