On Monday EU leaders met with UK prime minister Keir Starmer and NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte for an informal summit about European defence. At the meeting a letter signed by 19 EU leaders (not including Ireland) was tabled, stressing the need for Europe to rapidly militarise, with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to lead the […]
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This week, Palestine solidarity activists in Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) succesfully disrupted a recruitment fair for arms companies on campus. Companies complicit in the Palestinian genocide were again denied the opportunity to recruit on campus. As the protest began, activists were approached by university staff and asked what companies they were targeting. These companies were
As the climate crisis worsens, capitalists and their political representatives have put forward the “Green Transition” as the solution. The basis of this claim is that the market will find technological solutions for climate change and that capitalism can exist in harmony with the environment. Certainly the rise of green technology – electric vehicles (EVs),
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We are constantly told that democracy is synonymous with the West. Western media consistently places Russia and its president Vladimir Putin in opposition to core European values. We are told that Russia is a threat to the freedom of the Western world, that it is tirelessly plotting to subvert elections and create a new Russian
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This week has seen flash floods raging across the Valencian Community of Spain as well as other parts of the South-East with the death toll already above 200. While this has been a terrible natural disaster the blame for such a high death toll and risk to human life lies squarely at the far right-wing
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Fine Gael councillor and general election candidate for Cork South-Central Shane O’Callaghan recently submitted a motion to Cork City Council regarding policing in the city. The motion blames increased anti-social behaviour and crime in the city on a lack of resources for Gardaí and lenient sentencing, and calls on the council to write a letter
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Last month, the US House of Representatives introduced the Semiconductor Technology Advancement and Research (STAR) Act, 2024. The legislation represents the latest attempt by US officials to rescue their chip manufacturing industry and compete with China. The act introduces a 25% tax relief for companies engaging in chip design in the US. The chip manufacturing
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So why does this mean that Britain must prepare itself for war? According to Walker, Britain has “an absolute urgency to restore credible hard power in order to underwrite deterrence”. Veiled in diplomatic language, the real reason for this commitment has been made clear in the above sentence – to reassert Britain’s interests, with an
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