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Brexit: What Should Irish Socialists Say?

19/10/2019 By Conor Kostick 1 Comment

Nigel Farrage the man behind Brexit gets hit with milkshake

Short version: Independent Left advocate Remain. At the time of writing, there is still a lot of uncertainty around whether and under what conditions the UK will leave EU. On Saturday 19 October, it seemed possible that Boris Johnson would just about get a Brexit deal through the UK parliament, only for him to be […]

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The Shock of Climate Change, the Awe of Geo-Engineering

17/09/2019 By Conor Kostick 2 Comments

Solar geoengineering

Even if human society immediately managed a complete stop to the emission of carbon, we will fail to achieve the target of the Paris Accord of 2016, of keeping the increase in planetary temperatures to under 2% above pre-industrial levels. And of course, carbon emissions, far from coming to an end are increasing. There is […]

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Stop Water Privatisation: Round Two

18/07/2019 By John Lyons Leave a Comment

Excessive Usage Charges mean Water Charges

By John Lyons As Right2Water have recently posted, the announcement on 17 July 2019 by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities that excessive usage charges will be imposed on households that waste water is the beginning of a new battle which will see the government attempt to reintroduce the hated water charges in a new […]

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Independent Left’s response to gangland killings in Coolock and Darndale

05/06/2019 By Conor Kostick 1 Comment

Minister Charlie Flanagan visits Coolock and does nothing for the community

When young people from working class communities are drawn towards crime gangs, tragedy is never far away. On 25 May, Eoin Boylan, aged 22 was shot and killed in the residential area of Clonsaugh Avenue Coolock. In May, Hamid Sanambar (42) was shot on Kilbarron Avenue, Coolock, the home of Sean Little (22), who was […]

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Make the institutional child abuse records public

21/05/2019 By Conor Kostick Leave a Comment

Commission into Institutional Child Abuse report

A dangerous and unnecessary precedent This is how Caitriona Crowe, former head of special projects at the National Archives of Ireland greeted a new government bill, the Retention of Records Bill 2019, which will bury the records relating to the recent commission into child abuse and neglect at various religious run institutions for seventy-five years. […]

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