In the past, young people were able to receive a home from the local authority which led to localized construction projects. Most people in Ireland lived in homes built by their local corporation or council, the same model existed in the United Kingdom where local authorities constructed mass local housing. Seems simple, right? Today the […]
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Amendment to constitutional article on branches 7.1 The Chairperson of the branch is tasked with: Organisation of branch and committee meetings, set the agenda in liaison with the branch secretary and committee, direct and encourage the branch to work towards the fulfillment of the Programme. The Secretary of the branch is tasked with:
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The following speech is from the General Secretary of the Connolly Youth Movement at the Communist Party summer school in Benburb Comrades, old and new. It is and has always been in the interest of every movement in history to reach out to the young people within their communities and politicize them. Our task
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Youth participation in unions in 2012 sat below 5% in Ireland (Vandaele, 2013), with this fact being mirrored in numerous countries around the EU. There are numerous possible explanations for this fact, but in this article I want to focus on one in particular. When thinking about it, it might seem at first that young
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“The semi-radical phrases with which the middle-class Home Rule Press and politicians so often duped the public (and sometimes themselves) were seen to have no radical feeling behind them. Sham battle-cries of a sham struggle, they were hurriedly put out of sight the moment the war-cries of a real conflict rose upon the air.” –
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1- Catalonia … nation? To answer this we must start by analyzing the formation and historical development suffered by the Spanish nation from its origins: In the case of Spain, the political nation has a serious problem; It was, from the beginning, and we talked about the times of the Spanish Empire, a malformed superstructure.
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Forgive the interruption, but there is no way that we could allow for an event involving Leo and Simon to go ahead without highlighting pertinent, relevant and ongoing issues Ireland is facing. We are requesting that this hall has a minute of silence for the two homeless men who died on the streets in Cork
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‘On Monday, April 14th, there began in limerick city a strike protest against military tyranny, which because of its dramatic suddenness, its completeness, and the proof it offered that workers’ control signifies perfect order – excited worldwide attention.’ – Irish Labour Party and Trade Union Congress, 1919 The Limerick Soviet was self-declared one hundred years
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The participation of women during the Spanish Civil War much like, women’s involvement here in the period surrounding the 1916 rising and war of independence has in many way been downplayed or outright ignored. These backlashes and rewriting of struggles are depressingly common and generally follow when women or any oppressed group have gained ground
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