Kevin Bean
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Back to direct rule
Though Boris Johnson has every interest in promoting one clash with Brussels after another, now there is the war in Ukraine and the coming struggle with China. Kevin Bean puts arguments over the Northern Ireland protocol into their wider strategic context
Crisis in permanence
Sinn Féin is hailing an historic turning point, but, despite that, Irish reunification is still a long way off. Anne McShane and Kevin Bean look at the results
Sheer unadulterated murder
Kevin Bean looks back to the events of Bloody Sunday and blames the killings not merely on individual members of the paratroop regiment but those sitting round the cabinet table in Downing Street
Why we resigned
Not unity but division: joint statement by four former members of LAW’s steering committee
Hold them to account
Kevin Bean of the University of Liverpool branch reports on the attempts by the UCU leadership to sabotage union democracy
Build on what we achieved
Kevin Bean of Liverpool UCU looks back at the university pensions dispute
Defeat is victory
Gerry Adams may take pride in the legacy of Sinn Féin under his leadership, but Kevin Bean wonders how he will ultimately be regarded
Taking stock at half-time
Morale remains high, as UCU members prepare for the second phase of strike action. Kevin Bean says members are increasingly questioning neo-liberal orthodoxy
Wave of militancy
Kevin Bean of Liverpool UCU (personal capacity)
Genesis of ‘new Sinn Féin’
Kevin Bean looks back to the 1980s and 90s and the taming of the republican movement
A man and his movement
Kevin Bean examines the role played by Gerry Adams in Sinn Féin
Possibilities and challenges
Are Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn and Marine Le Pen from the same mould? Kevin Bean completes his analysis
Understanding the ‘populist moment’
Populism has been used as a catch-all definition covering everyone from Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to Evo Morales and Rodrigo Duterte. But what is populism and what is its historical background? Kevin Bean gives some answers
From guns to government
Kevin Bean unravels the enigma of Martin McGuinness - IRA commander and deputy first minster of Northern Ireland
Historic moment or business as usual?
Kevin Bean looks at the possibilities for Sinn Féin following the assembly elections
Revolution and counterrevolution
In this article, based on a presentation to Communist University 2016, Kevin Bean examines the subjective and objective factors that prevented the development of a powerful working class republicanism in Ireland