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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
THE Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) has called on working people in Northern Ireland and Britain to vote to leave the European Union in the coming referendum.
“A vote to leave can be a vote for a different way forward,” said CPI general secretary Eugene McCartan in a statement on Tuesday, “a vote against the deepening global militarisation of which the EU is one of the driving forces.”
Mr McCartan said that a British exit would also call into question Ireland and other nations’ membership “and reopen opportunities for working-class struggle on the national level.”
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Although separated by an ocean, the two islands share deep historical bonds of anti-imperialist solidarity, writes Chris Hazzard MP
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
ISAAC SANEY points to the global stakes involved in defending the Cuban revolution against imperialism and calls for resistance