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Ireland, Britain and the EU. Photo: Tiocfaidh ár lá 1916

The time is ripe for Irish unity – on both sides of the sea

Reuben Bard-Rosenberg

The Palace of Westminster. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The establishment seems to have forgotten we live in a parliamentary democracy: let’s remind them

Theresa May. Photo: Flickr/EU2017EE Estonian Presidency

Whether Theresa May wins or loses this no confidence vote, her time is up

Cameron Panting

A London polling station. Photo: Flickr/ secretlondon123

There’s only one way out of this mess, and that’s a general election – weekly briefing

Gilets Jaunes in Lille on Saturday 8 December in mass solidarity gesture with the detained high school students of Mantes-la-Jolie, of whom around a hundred were put in the stress position illustrated when detained by armed police following their protest. Photo: @GiletsJaunes_FR

Yellow Vests, Act Four: where is France going?

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. Photo: Pixabay/Tim Hill

West Wales’ warning to the Tories

Birmingham ‘Bin Brexit’ march for a ‘People’s Vote’, September 2018. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Why we don’t need a second referendum

Austerity Britain is destroying our mental health

Theresa May. Photo: wikimedia commons

Why you should be on the protest that could bring down the government

Having made it to the border, refugees are subjected to the front line Trump’s racist anti-immigration campaign. Photo: Vimeo

Migrant Caravan attacked: new leaders, same racism

Amy O’Donoghue

Demonstration opposing Tommy Robinson supporters, 14 July 2018. Photo: Flickr/Mark Ramsay

The far right can be stopped

Corbyn graffiti near Swanhurst Park, Birmingham, 2018. Photo: Flickr/Elliott Brown

Class questions are the way to defeat austerity, not a rerun of the referendum – weekly briefing