Europe

The electoral failure, and ongoing threat, of the Irish far right

News and analysis, Racism and fascism, Europe  

By Drew Frayne (Socialist Party – Ireland) 31 January 2025 Bucking the international trend of far right electoral gains, the Irish electorate by and large rejected the far right’s programme of anti-immigration, anti-LGBTQ, ultra conservative policies. The surge in anti-immigration protests in the preceding year, the momentum built in the local elections in June and […]

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Irish General Election: Low mood benefits establishment – left opposition must be built inside & outside Dáil

News and analysis, Europe, PRMI  

By Donal Devlin 10 December 2024 “The choice of the Irish people is clear: they want more of the same”. This was the immediate and typically superficial reaction from Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy about the outcome of the general election in Ireland. Much of the establishment media followed suit. Similarly, Fianna Fáil (FF) and Fine

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A thousand days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can the war end?

News and analysis, Imperialist conflict and war, Europe  

By Walter Chambers 5 December 2024 The suffering caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent conflict has been pushed out of the global headlines by the horrific genocide in Gaza, but it is no less horrific. The number of dead and wounded, both military and civilian, now far exceeds

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