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James Connolly – A chapter of horrors: Daniel O’Connell and the working class
Daniel O’Connell was born in Kerry 250 years ago as of this week. Hailed in the history books as “The Liberator”, O’Connell’s record in fighting for the oppressed Irish masses is not as straightforward as we are initially made to…
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Lenin and the importance of the workers’ press
“Out of this spark will come a flame.” Such was the strapline of Lenin’s newspaper Iskra (‘Spark’), which he founded in 1900 with a small group of comrades. How true those words were! Only 17 years later, Lenin and the…
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Letter: storms, Ireland’s cities, and the mounting climate catastrophe
We are publishing the following letter, recently received from an activist with the Revolutionary Communists of Ireland and a reader of The Revolutionary Communist. The letter, written in the wake of the disaster provoked by Storm Éowyn, highlights the catastrophic…
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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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“Che” – an icon? The life and ideas of Ernesto Guevara
72 years ago almost to the day – on July 26, 1953 – a small group of revolutionary students and intellectuals led by Fidel Castro launched an assault on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba. Though the July 26 offensive was…
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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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