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
SERCO runs everything in Britain, and increasingly abroad, from school inspections to Yarl’s Wood via massive cleaning contracts and refugee housing.
The outsourcing giant also operates the Caledonian Sleeper between London and Scotland, despite its branding being more familiar on the prisoner transport vans I’d see every day when I lived across the road from a magistrates’ court.
Its boss clearly enjoys having this feather in his hat.
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