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Book Review: The Lost Revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party
  This work sets out to give a detailed narrative account of the rise and fall of Official Republicanism and its successors and in that it is remarkably successful. Some might demand more analys....
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The Southern Bank Robbery
  For the last few months, there’s been a deafening clamour from the media and our political elite, telling us that we need to restore the public finances by slashing public-sector pay, un....
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Government attacks community projects
In times of economic recession and massive unemployment, the services, facilities and programmes provided by the Community sector are more important and essential than ever. The Community sector&rsquo....
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The end of social partnership
While social partnership has been in existence for the last twenty two years it now appears to be on its last legs. It may be an appropriate time to review its outcomes. Employers, it seems, have....
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Labour Gains
As people try to figure out what happened to the Celtic Tiger, the Irish Labour Party has seen a big rise in its support. With Fianna Fail sinking to third place in the opinion polls, Labour has been ....
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Pakistani Left on the flooding catastrophe
Pakistani socialist leader Farooq Tariq talks about the disastrous flooding in his country: "Pakistan must refuse to pay foreign debt and divert the amount on relief and rehabilitation of f....
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New report finds support for equality
A new survey from the centre-left think-tank TASC shows support for egalitarian policies in Ireland: “We found that 87 per cent of respondents believe that wealth in Ireland is unfairly di....
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Palestinian groups oppose talks with Israel
Eleven Palestinian groups, including the leftist PFLP and DFLP, have opposed the resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas: "In a time of a growing intern....
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Sindo goes bonkers - again
Wanna see how crazy the corporate media can get? Check out the latest offering from Jim Cusack, the notorious fantasist who passes himself off as a "security journalist". Jim reckons th....
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European workers face a battle to defend their rights
Swiss economist Charles-André Udry describes the Europe-wide campaign against workers being prepared: "A class war on a new scale has been declared in Europe: what remains of the social s....
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