Category: News & Analysis
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The Kneecap lads are running rings around the British state
Guess who’s back on the news, it’s your favourite republican hoods.” Kneecap, ‘Get Your Brits Out’
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The real terrorists are the British state
The rap trio Kneecap have once again found themselves centre stage in world media headlines for their uncompromising defence in speaking truth to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians at the hands of the murderous Israeli state, backed by their imperialist allies in the West.
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PSNI hypocrisy in Derry: UDA flags fly free, Palestine solidarity criminalised
Since British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and her crony pals in Westminster introduced legislation that categorised Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, there have been hundreds of arrests made across Britain and the North of Ireland.
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Overthrow the rich to feed our children: child poverty reaches 100,000
The number of children living in poverty nearly doubled last year, meanwhile the wealth of Ireland’s billionaires rose by €13 billion in the same period.
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‘Humanitarian city’: Netanyahu’s ‘final solution’ for Gaza
Since breaking the ceasefire in March, Israel has aimed to render Gaza uninhabitable, to drive it towards total collapse, and thereby to prevent anyone from staying or returning.
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Revolutionary Communist goes bimonthly – socialism or barbarism?
The Revolutionary Communist goes bimonthly! Read the editorial of issue 5 below, and set up a physical or digital subscription now. Every subscription and paper bought will help us strengthen the revolutionary press, produce more regular articles and analysis, and advance the fight for communism in Ireland today! As we go to print, an uneasy…
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“Britannia waives the rules”: Labour, internments and the Legacy Act
In yet another brazen attempt to shield its imperialist crimes, the British government has announced its intention to ram through “primary legislation” aimed at blocking hundreds – including former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams – from seeking compensation for their illegal internment during the Troubles. This latest episode in the thorny saga of the Legacy…
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Government attacks tenants with RPZ ‘reform’
Renters across Ireland recently woke up to the news that the entirety of the 26 counties now falls under a Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ). Was Micheál Martin visited by three ghostly figures who awoke him to the suffering of tenants across the country? What else could have prompted him and his Housing Minister James Browne…
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Down with the war on Iran! Down with US imperialism!
“NOW IS TIME FOR PEACE,” wrote US President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Saturday. On the same day, the US carried out its biggest military attack on Iran in modern history. Trump was backed by European leaders, including his obedient servant in Downing Street, all of whom have been calling on Iran to show…
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Iran war: “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad”
As I write these lines, the attention of the entire world is focused on one man. His every word is studied, dissected and analysed in the most extraordinary detail, in the hope that one might derive some sense as to what it may, or may not, signify. The efforts of the self-styled experts closely resemble…