Critical Analysis
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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Stand With Palestine
The editorial committee of Aontacht Media stands with the people of Palestine at this hour.
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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.
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.