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A Brief History of the Irish Student Anti-Austerity Movement Since The 2010s
Theory is necessary to guide us. Without theory pertaining to the material context, we are sailors of a ship neither its origin nor destination known.
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The Roots Party: A Grassroots Revolution for Rural and Working-Class Ireland
Founded three years ago, the Roots Party is an emerging political movement that aims to address the systemic neglect of rural and working-class communities in Ireland.
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Reprint: College's waste management sees promising developments but raises further concerns
In the modern age of sustainability, higher education institutions are taking increasing steps to reduce their environmental footprint and College is no exception.
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Reprint: College's Overnight Guests Policy is About Sexual Suppression
College’s dorm guests policy amounts to a de facto total ban on overnight visitors. This is the institution’s declaration of war on sexual activity.
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Reprint: The Limits of Student Politics
The strategy behind the student encampments was to light the embers of the pro-Palestine movement into a wildfire of tremendous force across society.
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Ultraleftism Ascendant: Understanding the Infantile Disorder
In 2020, Massachusetts high school sophomore Calla Walsh made headlines for co-founding the Students for Markey campaign, a viral grassroots effort to drum up youth support for 74-year-old Democratic senator Ed Markey’s reelection campaign.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.