Connolly Youth Movement
Ireland has among the strongest property rights recognition in the world. Imagine if, instead of protecting the right to property, the Constitution protected the right to housing. If the might of the government vindicated every individual’s right to shelter.
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Here we can see the working class of Ireland recognise their position, they can see very clearly the problems capitalism produces, namely, the health and housing crises. Here Sinn Féin had the opportunity to exploit the gap in anti-austerity politics that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil structurally support.
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Basic functions of a state, such as public investment, have been restricted to an unprecedented degree. Karl Marx saw that national debt is the means by which the modern state is sold to the capitalist class, determining which section of that class will be in control.
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Housing has often been the arena in which class consciousness and militant action has been instilled in the hearts and
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In the past, young people were able to receive a home from the local authority which led to localized construction
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The first lecture was about LGBT activism given by Adam Murray, a Community Development Officer for Cara-Friend, an LGBT charity
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Members of the Connolly Youth Movement had inhabited two buildings, which we dubbed Kent House and Mellows house, the six
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While the carcass of the Celtic Tiger may be long devoured; the rate of homelessness, precarious housing, insane rents, slum
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