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Destiny Chuckunyere and her Eurovision Song Contest performance take centre stage on this Sunday’s newspapers, with a photo of the Maltese singer featuring on all front pages. The Sunday Times of Malta reports that Malta lost an area the size of 250 football pitches to development over the past three years. The calculation was made by researchers using satellite imagery. The newspaper also reports that former Progress Press managing director Adrian Hillman was arrested by police in the UK this week, ahead of his extradition. His lawyer says Hillman will not fight extradition and will be ret...

SUPPLEMENT: Before, during and after March Ben Lewis explores the multiple causes behind what was a badly calculated bid to artificially induce revolution in Weimar Germany Heavens above, what is going on here! Genuine remorse, even if enforced, or nothing of the kind? Do you really know what you have done? The best action, the noblest and highest cause ... a cause that god just for once put in your hands, you have treated like muck in a pigsty (Gerhart Hauptmann Our path against putschism) This article, which is based on a talk I gave to the Online Communist Forum in March, represents a fir...

James Connolly (1868-1916), the son of Irish immigrants, was born in Edinburgh. He came to Ireland in 1896 as paid organiser of the Dublin Socialist Club and founded The Workers' Republic, Ireland's first socialist newspaper. In 1911 he was appointed Belfast organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union. With James Larkin, he led the workers of Dublin during the Great Lockout of 1913 and when Larkin went to the USA the following year, Connolly assumed leadership of the union. His tiny Irish Citizen Army took part in the 1916 Rising, following which he was executed. This short bo...

The community worker scheme, which helps unemployed people gain work experience and improve their chances of finding a job, has been extended. The scheme originally launched in 2009 and reformed in 2016, is also meant to provide local councils, NGOs and other entities with workers for routine operations such as cleaning and maintenance of road signs. Times of Malta reported that local councils across Gozo had flagged a rise in the incidence of skiving by people enrolled in this scheme. Many workers were not found on-site and while others did carry out the work assigned to them, they would fit...

Prime Minister Robert Abela says decisions on Rosianne Cutajar’s future cannot be based on news reports but on the outcome of an ethics probe currently underway