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“Is that homelessness?” – As Martin scoffs the housing crisis intensifies
“But if the house has been offered… those people are still on the list, still in emergency accommodation, and they’re being counted. And I question then is that homelessness?” So Micheál Martin sneered at the latest bleak milestone set under…
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Trump at the United Nations
“He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.” – Berthold Brecht They sat there in stunned silence, petrified, like a row of stone statues staring at their highly polished footwear. They resembled nothing less than a group of…
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Trotsky on the Communist Manifesto
Written in 1847 by Marx and Engels, the Communist Manifesto retains an astonishing vitality today. We publish below an article by Trotsky written in 1937, during the intense crisis of capitalism before WW2, on the occasion of the Manifesto’s 90th…
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Digging up the Church’s legacy: Tuam excavations begin
More than 900 of the 3,349 children held in the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam – known as ‘The Home’ – died in their ‘care’. The figures paint a horrifying picture. 80 percent were less than a…
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How the Communist International was built
Capitalism is a global system, and the struggle to overthrow it, therefore, has to be global. That explains why since the days of Marx and Engels, Marxists – revolutionary communists – have organised on an international level, from the First…
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Harris says: guns not butter!
The government’s new National Development Plan commits to ramping up capital spending on the military from €215 million in 2025 to €300 million in 2026, and €360 million by 2029. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael intend to pour €1.7 billion…
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