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We must build on the Good Friday Agreement
EOIN O MURCHU argues that the GFA was a positive achievement — but it was immediately undermined instead of being properly implemented
Republican marchers on their way to Belfast City Hall for a rally in support of the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, February 1999.
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IT IS 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) was signed in Belfast, ending nearly 30 years of violent conflict and opening up the possibility of a new way forward to overcome sectarianism and the partition of Ireland.
The agreement was a major source of hope for the future, but there is deep disappointment in the North of Ireland that these hopes have not been fully realised, as the institutions remain in limbo because of the DUP boycott, sectarianism continues to blight public life and hopes of a better world founder in the mire of underfunded services and gross exploitation.
But whatever disappointment there is, we must acknowledge that peace is a valuable achievement, especially a peace that provides a basis for common action between the divided communities — even if that is yet to be finalised.
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