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A 140-unit apartment complex is to be built on the site of the Bessborough Mother and Baby home, even though the grounds have not been fully exhumed. 900 women and children died there, in circumstances that are still not fully known. In other words, it is probably a crime
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The Lucas Plan: As a Worker’s Alternative Strategy “There cannot be industrial democracy until there is a real shift in power to the workers themselves.” (Lucas Plan, 1976) In January 1976, a collective known as ‘The Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Steward Committee’ published their alternative workers’ contingency strategy in
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On the Claire Byrne show last month, Jim O’Callaghan was asked if it would be an “acceptable practice to lift people off the streets who shouldn’t be here”, in a manner similar to the deportations being carried out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. “We’re nowhere
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The last 25 years in Denmark have seen growing racism and a deterioration in welfare and social security for the vast majority of the population. Racism and neoliberal policies have gone hand in hand and complimented each other. In the beginning the far right was isolated In the late 1990s,
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On February 28, Donald Trump launched his bombing campaign in Iran. Within 24 hours the US had managed to kill most of the country’s political leadership, including the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. However, it is rapidly becoming clear that Trump’s ‘forever war’ will likely backfire. Bombing Iran
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This year International Women’s Day (IWD) 2026 came in the midst of a world characterised by genocide, multiple wars, the undermining of democracy, and a deepening political crisis, one of the characteristics of which is a deliberate attack on women’s rights. Reproductive freedoms are being rolled back, feminist
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International Women’s Day was never meant to be a platform for high profile women to build their influence. Its roots lie in the socialist movements of the early twentieth century, when working-class women organised collectively against exploitation, political exclusion and poverty wages. In 1910, the socialist organiser Clara
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The date keeps getting put back. There will be no border poll before 2030, declared Taoiseach Mícheál Martin. The DUP’s Gregory Campbell even claimed that it may never happen. Yet the Belfast Agreement, which was signed nearly 30 years ago in 1998, offered a non-violent ‘constitutional way’ as
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Three days into a catastrophic bloodletting that looks set engulf the whole of the Middle East, the Trump White House finally offered a rationale for its ‘pre-emptive’ turn to war: the US “knew there was going to be Israeli action,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained after a briefing
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The Covalen strike in Sandyford, south Dublin last month was diverse, loud and confident. Communication Workers Union (CWU) members who are content moderators have taken action in response to cutbacks and redundancies. The dispute is ongoing. On the other side of the city, another group of workers – this time home
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February 2026 marks the centenary of the death of Larisa Reisner. A hundred years on, Reisner remains one of the most extraordinary revolutionaries to emerge from Soviet history. Her life was one of a kind and yet unmistakably of its time. Her politics were shaped by the last feverish years
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Minnesota. Mni Sóta Makoce. The North Star State. L'Étoile du Nord. The Conscience of the United States. Minnesota has a long and progressive history of resistance. From the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters truckers strike, to the American Indian Movement (AIM) being birthed out of Little Earth in south Minneapolis,