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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On the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Ireland stands at another historic crossroads, writes DECLAN KEARNEY of Sinn Fein
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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
IN August 2019, Larry Fink, co-founder of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management group, flew to Alaska for a fishing holiday with his mates, Philipp Hildebrand, the former Swiss Central Bank governor and Mike Corbat, the former head of Citibank.
When they arrived, Fink was taken aback to find the water levels very low and wreaths of smoke were drifting across the narrow Bering Strait from Siberia, where the peat in the tundra was on fire.
During his four-decade career, he had worried about the planet in a vaguely do-gooding way, he says, and he used to assume that personal and philanthropic conviction should stay out of his profit-seeking business.
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