Category: News & Analysis
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The Windsor Framework and the DUP – the crisis of Unionism continues
The British establishment is heralding the adoption of the Windsor Framework, the latest UK-EU trading arrangement. But this deal will do nothing to resolve the tensions in the North of Ireland. Only united class struggle can offer a way forward.
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Catholic Church: scandals, abuses and cover-ups
Yet another abuse scandal involving the Catholic Church has come to light, this time uncovered by the RTÉ documentary “Blackrock Boys”, which tells of a Spiritan priest who abused his position as an ‘educator’ to prey on young children and eventually rape two brothers at Blackrock College during the 1970s.
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Climate Chaos
2022 marked Ireland’s warmest year since records began. This is not an isolated phenomenon – the years since 2015 have been the Earth’s eight warmest years on record. The terrifying consequences of the climate crisis that have afflicted the so-called ‘Third World’ have also come back to bite western countries, with this summer’s wildfires in…
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Housing crisis: a government of landlords for landlords
The housing crisis in Ireland continues to deepen. The situation moves from bad to worse, month by month, year by year. Homelessness figures continue to soar, having reached a new record high of almost 11,000 people in emergency accommodation.
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Sinn Féin victory a historic blow to the union!
Sinn Féin has emerged as the first party in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. With a remarkable 29% of the first preference votes to the DUP’s 21.3%, the gap was even wider than predicted. Within hours of the polls closing, #UnitedIreland was trending on Twitter. This is another devastating blow to the prestige of British…
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The Ukrainian war: an internationalist class position – IMT Statement
The first casualty of war is truth. This is also the case of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Marxists need to be able to cut through the fog of lies and war propaganda and analyse the real reasons behind the conflict; what has caused it; and the real interests that lie behind the excuses…
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Solidarity with climate activists on trial!
On Wednesday 9 February, climate activists Orla Murphy and Zac Lumley, will appear at the District Court in Dublin to face serious criminal damage charges, for which they could face up to a year in prison. The ‘crime’ they are accused of committing? Peacefully protesting against the inaction of the Irish government in the face…
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Bloody Sunday: fifty years on
50 years ago today, soldiers of the British paratroop regiment opened fire on a peaceful civil rights march in the North of Ireland. 13 people were killed immediately, and a 14th victim died later as a result of his injuries. For half a century, the British state has covered up this atrocity, a crime for…
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Stop scandalous state repression of young climate activists!
As the world toboggans towards an environmental catastrophe created by the capitalist system, how is Ireland – one of Europe’s most polluting nations – responding to the crisis? By using state repression against young environmental activists. We say: protest is not a crime! Drop the charges against climate activists!
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Britain and the EU: inching ever closer to a trade war
The Tory government is on a collision course with the European Union over the question of trade and the North of Ireland. The capitalists on both sides are losing control of the situation. An explosive cocktail is being prepared.