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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Though cowards flinch
We have to rise above the backstabbing and campaign like never before to avoid Corbyn and McDonnell becoming ‘the best government team we never had,’ writes JOHN GREEN
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
MARX famously declared that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce — but this is by no means a fixed rule. History can and does also repeat itself a second time around as tragedy.
In 1980 Michael Foot had been elected as leader of the Labour Party, representing a decisive shift to the left.
A year later, in 1981, Tony Benn challenged Denis Healey for the deputy leadership and was only narrowly defeated.
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