Category: News & Analysis
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Israel’s ‘Gazafication’ of Lebanon
Israel is subjecting Lebanon to a campaign of ‘Gazafication’ – systematically levelling villages, displacing populations and targeting journalists and medical staff – under the pretext of ‘fighting Hezbollah’. Their intention is clearly to prevent any ceasefire between the US and the Iranians, and to seize Lebanese territory by force of arms while much of the…
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“Not One More” – fight the epidemic of violence against women!
On Saturday, April 25, thousands of outraged workers and young people filled the streets of Belfast, rallying under the call “Not One More” in response to the ongoing epidemic of femicide, which has claimed 30 women’s lives in the North of Ireland since 2020. In a chilling continuation of this violence, just prior to the…
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United States: “All you had to do was pay us enough to live” – warehouse arson vents class rage
“A lot of people are going to understand,” Chamel Abdulkarim reportedly told his girlfriend over the phone just moments after burning down the 1.2 million square foot Kimberly Clark distribution center where he worked. [Originally published at communistusa.org] He wasn’t wrong. A lot of people did understand. Regardless of whether one condemns or condones arson…
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An Garda Síochána: Yet Again Abuse and Cover-Ups
After 14 long years of judicial delays, Trevor Bolger, a former detective with An Garda Síochána, was finally brought before a court. In 2012 he brutalised his then wife over an hour while they were at home with their infant children. But outrageously, he was served a mere three-month suspended sentence for this crime. Once…
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Fuel protests show the way
“At this stage Micheál Martin is not in control. The people of Ireland are in control. They have every motorway blocked in Ireland. They have businesses shut down. […] This is a revolution.” These words by James Geoghegan – agricultural contractor and prominent spokesperson of the Dublin’s protest – broadcast across national radio waves at…
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Mitchell and Epstein: clear out this stinking system!
The saying goes “the bigger they are, the harder they fall”. But for the big bust of George Mitchell at Queen’s University Belfast, there was no fall… In fact it simply vanished, without a trace! George Mitchell – former US senator, ‘peace’ envoy, Chancellor of QUB, and celebrated midwife of the Good Friday Agreement –…
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Trump’s defeat in Iran and its worldwide consequences
The war in Iran, which started as a reckless gamble on the part of Trump, is developing into a significant strategic defeat for US imperialism, which can have important consequences for the world economy, the position of America as a world power, and world relations in general. We are now in the seventh week of…
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Trump faces impossible dilemma as Iran gets the upper hand
Four weeks into the US-Israel war of aggression against Iran, the war aims of US imperialism have not only not been achieved, but they look further away than before. Trump is faced with an impossible situation. If he cuts his losses and declares victory now that would represent a massive humiliation for US imperialism, and…
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Storm Chandra: cockroaches do not worry about floods
Storm Chandra brought widespread flooding to Dublin and the South-East in January and February after the Dodder and Slaney rivers were pushed beyond their banks. More than 20,000 properties were left without power at the height of the storm. Areas in Rathfarnham and Nutgrove saw cars left stranded as roads were submerged. Towns such as…
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SNA Backlash exposes the weakness of the government
In the first weeks of February, letters landed at schools across the country from the National Council for Special Education. 194 schools were informed that their Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) – staff who provide support to children with disabilities – would be reduced and reallocated. It wasn’t long before local TDs were flooded with emails…