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We must realise the class first perspective of Aontacht’s theory has been largely speculative and uninvolved with the actual practice within the Marxist movement in Ireland.
Critical Analysis
Despite what many may assume, the song Dirty Old Town was not about Dublin but instead Manchester, though if it were to be written today, would there be a place more fitting?
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The purpose of this text is to assess the shortcomings, failures and issues that surrounded the split of the communist movement in Ireland.
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We celebrate the men & women of 1916, the heroes of the War of Independence, & we remember the Civil War with solemn respect. We tell ourselves that their sacrifice gave us this Republic. But did it?
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The city of Kilkenny was the setting for a small but important protest on Saturday gone, where the issue of social housing privatisation was brought to the fore by a small group of activists from mixed backgrounds, Nationalist, Republican and Socialist and a handful of concerned locals.
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We awoke last morning to the United States of America invading Iran and greeted the evening with the news that Khamenei is dead. It has legitimated this using the standard clichés of bringing democracy to the Middle East.
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The dismantling of this culture of silence is key to the bridging of divides between South Asian communities – steered by our large middle class, the primary beneficiaries of this silence – and the broader Irish working class.
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An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion.
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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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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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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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When the Left stops talking to working-class people, the Right step in.