Text of the Solidarity leaflet for International Women’s Day
“Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously…The number one political enemy in America is women…They’re the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people… Women are making us sympathetic to George Floyd… So they go to the gulag first.”
– Nick Fuentes, on America First, 11 February 2026
Contained within neo-fascist influencer Nick Fuente’s vile diatribe, there is an element of truth which has reverberated across history: often, those most oppressed by capitalism are at the forefront of the struggle against it.
Epstein’s links with Zionism and the far right
This stands in stark contrast to the depravity of the ruling class as exposed in the Epstein files. In the most recent release of documents, Donald Trump is mentioned 38,000 times. This includes heinous allegations of sexual assault against girl children as young as 13 and 14, and even implicates him in an act of infanticide.
An incomplete list of other powerful figures in the documents include Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Steve Bannon, and Peter Mandelson. On Christmas Day in 2012, Elon Musk practically begged Epstein for an invite to one of his ‘parties’.
Beyond facilitating horrific accounts of child sexual abuse, violent misogyny, and sex trafficking amongst the elite – Epstein also had a hand in facilitating Zionism and imperialism, meeting with Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak 36 times and making donations to charities supporting the IOF.
Compare this rampant abusive behaviour amongst the elite to the vilification of LGBTQ+ folk and POC as supposed abusers. Trans folk are four times more likely to be victims than abusers and less than 5% of immigrants detained by ICE have been convicted of violent crimes.
No shamrocks for child abusers!
After Ashling Murphy was murdered in 2022, Micheál Martin said he would take a “zero tolerance approach” to violence against women. What hypocrisy as he goes to deliver shamrocks to and shake hands with Donald Trump! As long as we live under capitalism – such political cowardice will prevail, with profits taking precedence over principles.
When we fight, we can win
In Minneapolis, after weeks of ICE occupying the city and terrorising immigrants and POC, and on the back of two murders by federal agents of protesters, the city erupted in a wave of protests, boycotts and strikes eventually forcing Trump to end the surge of immigration enforcement.
Over the past year in Britain, thousands of people were arrested on terrorist charges for peacefully holding placards with the statement “I oppose genocide. I stand with Palestine Action.” These strategic actions had an impact, causing many in the public to question the validity of the original ruling and forcing the high court to deem the classification of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation as being illegal.
Here in Ireland, Ruth Coppinger – Solidarity TD – has worked with survivors/victims of gender based violence to fight to ban the use of victims’ counselling notes in trials dealing with sexual assault, something the Government is being forced to pass in some form. In exposing the recent heinous case of rape and image-based sexual abuse in UCD, Ruth Coppinger has also opened the door to hold the institution accountable, inspiring women doctors to write an open letter to UCD demanding accountability and action.
Solidarity – the antidote to despair
All of these victories represent the profound potential of solidarity. It is for this reason that, from March 2026, the Socialist Party is now campaigning under the name ‘Solidarity – the socialist alternative. In a world fuelled from the top by racism, gender violence, queerphobia and genocide, there is nothing more potentially revolutionary than standing together.
Capitalism – the system that takes the wealth created by workers to enrich the elite – is predicated on inequality and exploitation. The billionaires feel entitled to our labour; our planet; even our bodies – and they fuel a culture in which this is normalised, where the poverty and loneliness experienced by so many is blamed on women, on queer folk, on immigrants and black and brown people.
Forged by solidarity in social movements, a socialist alternative would be an anathema to this – taking the key levers of the economy into public ownership; abolishing billionaires and the concentration of wealth at the top, and instead using that wealth to invest in both people and the planet; building a world based on cooperation rather than hatred and division.
In campaigning as Solidarity, we commit to working within movements to build a genuinely left and anti-capitalist political force that could pose an alternative to the establishment. Within any such movements, we will also build a revolutionary Marxist alternative, rooted in international solidarity and struggle. Join us today.
