Irish, EU & international politics & economics
By Julieta Beristain. The curfew in Chile has been renewed and the repression of the army and carabineros left a record of 15 dead and more than 1,600 arrested. Despite internal efforts to hide the most heinous images of the repression under the command of the Army and the Carabineros, […]
By Denis Rogatyuk. “Se acabó la zanganería”. With this phrase, President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno announced the end of the 40-year long policy of fuel and petrol subsidies that traditionally benefited the working class population. “Zánganos” (or drones) is a slang term traditionally used by the richer parts of society […]
By Dave Lordan. On the same Easter Week of the 1916 rising, a Charlie Chaplin lookalike competition was held in Dublin. Chaplin, well-known to be a socialist as well as the world’s leading entertainer at the time, had a mass following among the Dublin working classes. Truth be told, among […]
By Lisbeth Latham. The unprecedented glacial melting, diminishing sea ice shelves, and extensive fires globally have fuelled growing existential angst around the looming climate catastrophe. This angst has been a major source of the emergence and growth of the climate strike movement globally which has seen millions of people drawn […]
By Damien Thomson. Anger is generally characterised as a negative emotion, but I’d beg to differ. Social movements need anger. Anger motivates. It unites. Last week in climate politics gives us a lot to be angry about. Monday At the United Nations headquarters in New York, the UN Climate Summit […]
By Rose Mairie Maughan. Before I had my son, as a Traveller activist, I thought I was good person, a good human rights activist in solidarity with all struggles – but there was one I could have been more supportive and aware of; that is, the Autistic struggle. Before he was […]