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Every worker should be warned about Covalen, a subsidiary of CPL Recruitment. One recent Monday morning, the company said that the jobs of 720 workers were at risk. This came via a brief video announcement, and no questions were allowed. The workers were treated like disposable hankies. Covalen will pick
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On 28 February 2026 the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Iran was hit at least twice by American missiles – over 175 people were killed, the majority of them schoolgirls aged between 7 and 12 years old. The school was targeted by an AI-based system called Maven, which is supplied
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Dublin Central is Ireland’s most unequal electoral constituency. The glittering towers of the IFSC are host to over €5 trillion of domiciled assets. Right beside them lies Gardiner Street, where one in ten of our 17,500 homeless people are living. All around Gardiner Street are communities marked by
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The conflict in the Gulf regions is one the most important events in the 21st century and it will have huge implications for the whole world. Trump was convinced that the Iranian state would collapse within hours of the massive aerial assault on the country by American and Israeli forces.
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The government’s attempts to buy off fuel protesters are pathetic. They consist mainly of ‘temporary measures’ and are geared to support small businesses. There is a ten-cent reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel, but that does not bring prices below the level when Trump and Israel
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On Tuesday 7th April, major roads and towns in Ireland were brought to a standstill by hundreds of tractors, trucks, and buses. The fuel prices protests were sparked by the US-Israeli imperialist war on Iran, which caused the Strait of Hormuz to be blocked off, disrupting fossil fuel supply
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Public faith in the criminal justice system has hit an all-time low. Behind the comforting illusion of "law and order" lies a policing apparatus steeped in racism, pervasive sexism, and entrenched sectarianism. Our "justice" system rests on a blatantly two-tiered system where the rich
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Too much (therefore superficial and mechanical) political realism often leads to the assertion that a statesman should only work within the limits of ‘effective reality’; that he should not interest himself in what ‘ought to be’ but only in what ‘is.’ This would mean that he should not look farther
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Brian O’Boyle, writing in Rebel, states that “Trump’s MAGA project is designed to reassert the power of a declining hegemon. It is an attempt to make the world ‘great again’ for the US ruling class.” Vis-à-vis the US attack on Venezuela, the US ruling class, O’
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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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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,