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Read More »Film Review: “Straight Outta Compton”
Review of new film about hip-hop group "NWA"
Read More »A rage in Baltimore: The aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death
Another racist killing in the US by police.
Read More »Deaths in Lampadusa: “Systematic Slaughter”
By Kevin Henry The recent deaths of more than 800 people who drowned when a small fishing boat capsized near the Italian island of Lampedusa shocked people across Europe. This brings the death toll of immigrants from north Africa attempting to reach Europe by boat in 2015 alone to 1,600. Last year, around 170,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean to get ...
Read More »Review: Selma directed by Ava DuVernay
“We are saying that something is wrong ... with capitalism.... There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism”- Martin Luther King
Read More »End state racism against asylum seekers
By James Hallinan After being forced to flee their country, asylum seekers end up being marginalized here and become one of the most vulnerable sections of society. They end up being stripped of some of their rights. They can’t work or get proper education, are placed in cramped accommodation, and have limited control over when or what they eat. Direct ...
Read More »The Revolutionary Legacy of Malcolm X
By Eljeer Hawkins “The centerpiece of Malcolm’s political project was to internationalise the condition of Black peoples in the United States.” Sohail Daulatzai, Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, p.36 This February marks the fiftieth anniversary of the public assassination of Malcolm X. In the shadow of the nationwide revolt against endemic police violence, ...
Read More »Fighting oppression – a Marxist viewpoint
Marxism is a philosophy and world view that seeks to materially analyse reality. Although it was not possible for Marx and Engels themselves to adequately address all questions of oppression, as well as other issues in their writings, they did specifically address women's oppression, racism linked to slavery and imperialism, and also the oppression of national groups, such as the Irish.
Read More »Direct Provision: Stop ghettoising asylum seekers
Direct provision centres across Ireland are coming more into the limelight for the continuing exclusion and poverty they force upon some of the most vulnerable residents on this island.
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