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Left Wins Presidential Election in Ireland by a Landslide

CATHERINE Connolly (born 1957) only became involved in active politics in 1999. Michael D Higgins, the outgoing president of Ireland (2011-2025), encouraged Connolly to join the Labour Party and stand for election. Both Connolly and Higgins (known in Ireland as Michael D) come from Galway, a city on the west coast of Ireland. Connolly was born there, the ninth of fourteen children – seven girls and seven boys – in a working-class family. Her mother died when Catherine was only nine, and her father, a home builder, relied on his older children to care for the younger ones.

Genocide Will Not End Unless the Palestinian Political Leaders are Free

SLOWLY, a full picture of the devastation of Gaza by Israel is becoming clear. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a report around the time of the ceasefire that began to lay out the numbers: Israel’s bombardment of Gaza resulted in the total destruction of 190,115 buildings and the almost total destruction of another 330,500 housing units. The constant artillery and aerial fire for the 734 days of the genocide resulted in the wrecking of eighty-five percent of Gaza’s water and sewage system.

Indian Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians

THE Israeli genocide of Palestinians has been going on for two years – a ‘live-streamed genocide’, as Amnesty International called it in April 2025 in its annual report. Thus far, Israel has murdered over 66,000 Palestinians – the overwhelming majority being civilians, and 20,000 of the dead being children (a Palestinian child has been killed every hour since October 2023).

On the Situation in Nepal

IF your house is not clean, then the ants will come through the door and draw in the other, more dangerous animals.The crisis in Nepal escalated in early September, bringing down the centre-right government of Prime Minister K P Oli. The immediate spur was the regulation and banning of social media on September 4. Protests over this action was met by police firing, which resulted in the killing of 19 protestors.

Argentina: Students, Teachers, Workers Hold Mass Protest Against Milei

Following Milei’s veto of a law that seeks to improve conditions in university education, thousands of students, teachers, and workers will take to the streets in protest across Argentina.TENS of thousands of students, teachers, and workers will march in the streets in cities across Argentina on September 17, for the Federal University March.

How to Get the IMF to Think

WHEN will the International Monetary Fund (IMF) learn to think? Over its 81-year history, the IMF has published over 15,000 reports. Yet, if you download any one of the reports from its website, it is likely that you will know what is being said before you have even read it. The reports are so generic that you do not even need to ask ChatGPT to create a template: each document is a template for the next.

The Global Economic Benefit from the Genocide of Palestinians

ON June 16, 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967, Francesca Albanese, published a new report titled From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide. Spanning over thirty-nine pages, the report indicts several major multinational corporations of profiting from the occupation and genocide of Palestinians.

Israel and the Drug War in Syria

TENSIONS increased in southern Syria as Israeli warplanes bombed the Ministry of Defence in Damascus and areas around the presidential palace as well as villages in As-Suwayda. At least 250 Syrians died in these air strikes on July 16, 2025. The transitional authorities in Syria led by the former al-Qaeda chief Ahmed al-Sharaa condemned the attacks, which Israel justified as necessary to stop the fighting between the Syrian forces, the hastily organised Quwwat al-Badu (or Bedouin Forces), and the Druze Harakat Rijal al-Karama (Men of Dignity).

Communist Wins Chile’s Left Primary, Faces Right in November Election

JEANETTE Jara (born 1974) prevailed in the presidential primary of the four major left political forces held on June 29, 2025. With 60 per cent of the vote, Jara defeated Carolina Toha of the Democratic Socialist Party (28 per cent), Gonzalo Winter of the Frente Amplio or Broad Front (9 per cent), and Jaime Mulet of the FRVS, a merger of the greens and the progressives (2 per cent).

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