This year marks the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. TOM GALLAHUE and ROBERT POOLE from Educators for a United Ireland discuss the role played by the Irish diaspora, and why the Rising remains relevant today
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The battle against climate change needs proper joined-up policy
The Prime Minster’s net zero U-turn makes no long-term economic sense and will leave working people and the poorest in our society counting the cost, says REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on the plans for net-zero commitments in the briefing room at 10 Downing Street, London, September 20, 2023
On the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Ireland stands at another historic crossroads, writes DECLAN KEARNEY of Sinn Fein
Volunteers have helped revive a pool steeped in England’s rural past and now bursting with life. MARK SEDDON takes a look
RHUN AP IORWERTH outlines Plaid Cymru’s immediate and medium-term policy goals
A row over Trotskyist factions exposes competing visions of organisation inside Your Party and the wider left, argues NICK WRIGHT
A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED
THE Prime Minister’s announcement recently that he was diluting key net-zero targets — including delaying by five years a ban on new petrol cars, weakening targets on the transition away from oil and gas boilers and scrapping a number of proposed energy efficiency requirements for landlords — was a feeble attempt to appease fossil fuel lobbyists, climate denialists and certain Tory donors in advance of a looming general election.
More worrying however is that it was a blatant attempt to create the false narrative that if we want to tackle climate change those who must ultimately pay for it are working people.
We either choose our health and our children’s futures or our jobs and keeping a roof over our heads.
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