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They Are Killing the Dogs, They Are Killing the Cats: The Calculating Cruelty of Colonial Deflection
An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion.
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Why the Bourgeois Press Still Smears Us
From the birth of our Republican struggle, the pen of the oppressor has always sought to drown out the voice of the Republic.
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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 democratic deficit in Ireland.
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Say No to Diageo! : A Call to Action on Guinness’ Price Hikes
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.
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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.
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Social Conservatives Should Embrace Anti-Imperialism
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.
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Murder is a Sin, to Migrate is Not
If there is an issue today that affects the dignity of individual persons and society, cries out for justice, requires solidarity, and calls for coordinated action that promotes the common good at national and international level, it is that complex of experiences that we call migration.
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We Don’t Need The Plebs: How the Left Left the Working Class Behind
When the Left stops talking to working-class people, the Right step in.
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The Fall of the Woke Left
I first realised there was something deeply wrong with the Left in 2023 when I found myself getting punched in the face by some bored teenager. The following day the Sandwith Street asylum seeker camp would be burned to the ground. At the counter-protest before the fire, I came to
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The Demise of the Old Guard
This is the natural order of things. New ideas arise, which are mocked and ignored, until they become commonplace. Carriers of fresh ideas, the new guard thus necessarily enters into struggle with the old guard, eventually replacing it, but not before a fierce clash of visions.
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What Rosa Gets Wrong About Socialist Feminism
Within my recent articles on the woke left and an alternative I have made it clear to separate the identity politics of the woke left and the idea of marginalized communities organising for the needs of marginalized communities.
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The Dirtbag Manifesto
In this response to Mia Craven’s “post mortem on the dirtbag left” I wish to establish some scientific basis in defence of Molnárfi’s call that we should all be dirtbag leftists.