No light reading this week. The Isles, Canada, Mideast, Asia, Africa, Latin America - and a call for eco-socialism
The victory by Ireland’s left-wing Sinn Fein Party suddenly puts the issue of Irish reunification on the agenda. Prospects for unification will have less to do with ancient hatreds than with health care, schools, housing, and jobs.
How Sinn Féin won young voters - and Eastern Europe, Algeria, Lebanon, and El Salvador
Organized democracy in Rojava, Polisario lives, undocumented strikers win in France, and more
Three protests, poles apart - and more
Labour Party * Sinn Féin * Die Linke * Podemos * India Parties Unite Against CAB * Italian Dilemma * MAS, Bolivia * Iraqi CP * Québec Solidaire * Israel's Joint List * ... and Remembering Comrade Ben Turok
Irish LGBTQ campaigner Joseph Healy joined the Pride march in his home town of Newry. He explains how life on the border has changed - and the stakes of Brexit installing a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
From Ireland comes a collection of collaborative essays about overcoming injustice, rightly valorizing women fighting oppression worldwide.
Algeria * Spain * Sudan * Brazil * Ireland * Oaxaca * Pakistan * Honduras * Belgium
The reprinting of a classic book on the Northern Irish "Troubles" of 50 years ago is the occasion for a relook at warring nationalisms, armed violence and ethnic oppression that divided a population, leaving capital and British imperialism unscathed.
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