Category: News & Analysis
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Donald Trump’s contribution to the discussion on a United Ireland summed up
Donald Trump has some choice words on Irish unification when he took a detour from his golf trip last week to visit the Taoiseach. At their meeting he unexpectedly announced: “They’re Irish people. How can they be bad, right? I’d love to see it unified,” adding later that it would be “a very cool thing”.…
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Permission granted to cement over mother and baby home
Despite decades of promises and apologies, the church and state are attempting to pave over historic abuse on the site of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork. At least 923 children died at Bessborough between the 1920s and 1990s. Infant mortality in the 1940s reached 82 percent. 859 of these dead children have…
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Donaldson’s fall and the DUP’s crisis
The unprecedented scandal surrounding former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who has been convicted of 18 counts of sexual abuse against children – including one count of rape – has shaken the DUP to its very core. For the first time in five years, the latest opinion polls have failed to place the DUP as the…
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Picking the Triple Lock
The bill to scrap the Triple Lock – the mechanism which requires approval from the Irish government, Dáil, and United Nations Security Council before more than 12 Irish troops can be sent abroad – is set to come before the Dáil this Autumn. In particular the role of the UN Security Council is coming under…
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‘Russia will collapse tomorrow’ – ‘and invade Europe in five years’
‘Russia is about to collapse.’ The economy is apparently cracking at the seams. Sanctions have finally worked. Oil refineries are going up in flames one after another. Ukrainian drones have paralysed half the country. There is no petrol, no money, and soon there will be no soldiers left either. The regime is living out its…
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The Revolutionary Communist goes monthly!
“The publication of an all-Russia political newspaper must be the main line by which we may unswervingly develop, deepen and expand the organisation” – V.I Lenin It is only one year since we relaunched the Revolutionary Communist – the organ of the Revolutionary Communists of Ireland – as a bimonthly publication. And it was only…
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Opinion polls, ballot boxes and Sinn Féin
The latest LucidTalk poll has sent shockwaves through the political establishment in the North. The three parties that came out on top in the last Stormont elections are now all but bleeding support. Jeffrey Donaldson’s conviction for child rape and abuse has plunged the DUP into crisis. Alliance is now polling at its lowest in…
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NHS: pay rises for the bosses, austerity for us!
The bigwigs lording over the NHS in the North of Ireland have put it upon themselves to increase their salaries by 50 percent in the past three years. The result? The top brass in Stormont’s Department of Health now commands more than a staggering £2 million in annual salaries! At the best of times, this…
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Public sector unions ballot for action as Harris prepares anti-worker budget
Ballots for industrial action have been underway among public sector unions after the breakdown of negotiations for a new public sector pay deal. Already, SIPTU members have voted 98 percent in favour of industrial action and 97 percent for strike action. Workers in Fórsa, the largest public sector union, have voted 96.6 percent for industrial…
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The existential crisis of European capitalism
The following is based on a speech delivered by Jorge Martín at a recent meeting of the international leadership of the Revolutionary Communist International. In it, he analyses the existential crisis of European capitalism, and the impact this will have on the class struggle. [Originally published on Marxist.com] European capitalism is facing an existential crisis.…