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People walking past tents housing asylum seekers near to the International Protection Office, in Dublin, April 29, 2024
“The only good Tory is a dead Tory."
A POLL showing half the population of Ireland supports migrant checkpoints at the border with Northern Ireland is part of a “policy of distraction,” the Communist Party of Ireland says.
The survey by the Sunday Independent and Ireland Thinks found 50 per cent of the country, including a majority of Sinn Fein voters, are in favour of putting in place the checkpoints as a means of limiting the number of asylum-seekers entering from Britain.
The poll also shows 82 per cent of Irish people want immigrants arriving in Ireland from the north of the island to be deported back to Britain.
Ministers vote to escalate war on starving Palestinians
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
