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How Not To Beat Sinn Féin

Matt Treacy ✑ Talleyrand is reputed to said of the Bourbon royal family – who were restored to power partly through his treachery following the downfall of Napoleon – that they had “learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”RTÉ appears to be on the same wavelength when it comes to Sinn Féin, and pretty obvious attempts to wean the third or so of the likely electorate away from the party are becoming

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Hundred And Thirty Nine

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Let Us At Least Be CuriousThe NGO which reports on NGOs is closingEducation should be built on the needs of the childrenJustEat couriers’ strike hits rush for lunchAngry Men –

Why To Vote Sinn Fein

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ Firstly, I am not usually a torch bearer for (Provisional) Sinn Fein, but in response to the Claire Byrne Show aired on RTE 1 on 14th February I feel it appropriate to write something in defence of the party.In fairness to Claire, she had guests from across the spectrum both in favour of and against Sinn Fein’s policies. In the anti-Sinn Fein corner, we had the right-wing

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Remembering Volunteers From Clonoe Ambush

Pádraic Mac Coitir ✒ writing on the 30th anniversary of a military exchange between IRA volunteers and the British Army in Co Tyrone.I remember this night 30 years ago when listening to the radio whilst imprisoned in the H-Blocks and reports were coming in of people being killed in Tyrone. I was on the wing with lads from that county and we were talking out the doors as to what we thought had

Irish Communists Signal Intent To Reconstitute Communist Party Of Ireland

Irish Communist Reconstitution Committee ☭The Communist Movement in Ireland, 101 years after its first breath, stands at a crossroads of crisis and potential. In the seven years since 2015 the Communist Movement in Ireland has found additional energy and vitality in the form of a resurgent Connolly Youth Movement, in the context of a decade of heightened class war against the international

Hanging Around Aimlessly

Mick Hall ☭ It's a puzzle to me why anyone would remain a member of a political party in which they have no say and are despised by the leadership? Whatever you can say about previous Labour Party leaders, from Corbyn, John Smith, Callaghan, Wilson, Attlee, Lansbury, even Tony Blair etc, they all adhered to the party being a broad church. This is no longer the case, Indeed the current leader

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The Persecution Of Palestine ✑ Normalizing The Abnormal Zionist War Crimes

Fra Hughes ✒ "Israel" was birthed in the blood of the Palestinian people in 1948 under a UN mandate that gave Zionists, who were a minority in the country, more than 52% of the land of Palestine.First Published InAl Mayadeen English.In order to see where we are today sometimes it is necessary to review the past.While some may claim the past is a country we should not visit, when it comes to

War In Europe And The Rise Of Raw Propaganda

John Pilger ✒ Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age. In 1964, McLuhan famously