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THOUSANDS of people took to the streets across Ireland on Saturday in protest against austerity-driven charges for water.
Trade unionists and opposition politicians led the largest rally, in central Dublin, to demand that publicly owned Irish Water scrap the fees for previously free tap water.
The Right2Water campaign is made up of political parties, six major trade unions and community groups.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY