Europe
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IV The differences between Irish and Scottish attitudes to the Union are evident in many ways, but it is a source of constant disappointment to the present writer that Scottish politics has rejected any and every means available to an anticolonial movement to succeed in its aims. Why not take the Irish case as a…
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I One of the greatest idiocies of the Late Capitalist democratic-imperialist state is that there can be such a thing as an illegal referendum, when it comes to nations within the state wanting to leave it. It seems to the present correspondent that even in an authoritarian state, it would be foolish for such a…
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VI We might feel that Palestine represents something of our past; that in Palestine we see the history of vicious European colonisation repeated in the media era. This is not untrue, but Macdara has been unsettled by the idea that in Palestine we see our future: an overwhelmingly asymmetrical relation between elites and the people.…
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III Macdara will never accept that the massive violence of colonisation can be equalled by any violence perpetrated by an anti-colonial movement. In fact this seems to him to be a matter where clarity may be gained from taking a quantitative approach: compare the victims of any single anti-colonial movement with the numbers of dead…
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I Living in the American-led Order, one is encouraged to imagine that there is a hardy group of thoughtful powers, clustered together in NATO, who are opposed by rogue entities abroad such as Russia, China, and Iran, not to mention the ragtag gang of proxies and clients that these villains have assembled to goad and…
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A change of tack for today’s post, on this Glorious Twelfth. Your correspondent was struck by a thought in writing one of his letters on Palestine and the injustices visited upon the Palestinian people: that the Jewish people, as a nation, have a natural claim to a nation state, particularly given the two millennia of…
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This site takes its name from Edmund Spenser’s genocidal tract of 1596, A View of the Present State of Irelande. In his country of origin—the country he returned to when he was forced out of Ireland, the castle he had seized having been burnt down—Spenser is remembered as a poet. In Ireland he may best…