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Matt Carthy should learn from Starmer’s mistakes
When it comes to trusting people with our votes, at least, anti-immigration sentiment remains a minority camp in Ireland.
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Our Anti-Racist Movement Needs To Fight The Disease Of Neoliberalism
Today I attended the unity protest following the murder of Yves Sakila by the Arnotts security staff. Death at the hands of private security staff is not unprecedented here, in the past few years at least two other men have been killed by overly-aggressive night club bouncers.
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Brown Envelopes, Bags of Brown, Brownshirts, and Bertie: A Unified Timeline of How Dublin Became Patient Zero for Reaction
Bertie swapped brown envelopes while in power for political capital on hate against brown and black people. Irony: he and FF built the crises they blame on immigrants. The Irish right blaze a path for FF rule at the expense of everyone darker than milky tea.
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Media's Culture War Only Lets The State Off The Hook
The state and mainstream media are comfortable for the public response of this tragedy to be trapped between a dishonest strain of anti-racism politics by the NGO ecosystem and liberal left, and fear-politics.
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Aontacht Editorial: Race, Class and Responding To The Death of Yves Sakila
Big business and shady politicians want to divide us. If they can split us into tiny groups based on our race, where we come from, the languages we speak, and who we love, it becomes easier for them to distract us from the big questions.
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A Commentary On Anti-Sectarian Writings From The Red Hand Magazine
This work will be the republication of a number of articles and excerpts thereof; with additional commentary suited to the moment attached, of pieces from the Ulster-focused Red Hand magazine.
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Organisation, Not Just Protest, Is Necessary For The Working Class Movement
Organising means more than temporary protest or support for individual politicians. It means building lasting structures rooted in the working class: unions, tenant groups, community organisations, education circles, and a disciplined vanguard party.
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Will the Left Learn the Lessons from the Failure of Past Counter-Demonstrations?
The point of this article is to point to a series of 'teachable moments' that seem to have not been learned. The focus of this article will be the tactic of countering 'Nativists' or, if you want to show off, the 'Nazis' or 'Fascists' on our streets.
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Bend That Stick! Historicizing Lenin's What Is To Be Done?
An explainer of Lenin’s What is to be Done? (1902), its historical context and thoughts on the latent confluence between the anarchist and Leninist concept of the vanguard.
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The Traumatic Aftershock of Communist Defeat in the 20th Century
The 1917 October Revolution promised a world based on self-management, and real democracy for the masses, a liberated humankind. However, a tragic series of disagreements, betrayals and lost possibilities have engendered collective trauma.
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Why the Left Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power
One might expect, then, that the announcement of a bill to repeal the nuclear ban would be celebrated on the environmentalist left.
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In Defense of Political Maturity
“How you are right does not matter if you are right in the wrong way,” argue Leandra Tolentino and Owen Buchanan in this piece.