India and COVID-19: “Social distancing is a privilege”
By Ana Mitra On the 25 March 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a 21 day lockdown in India, leaving the nation of
No cutting of Dublin Bus workers’ annual leave
By Michael O’Brien Dublin Bus management are steamrolling through their policy of enforced annual leave. I was given sight of a list of sixty
Gaza: brutal siege will ensure COVID-19 catastrophe
By Finghín Kelly As relatively developed health care systems in Europe and North America are struggling to cope with the ravages of Covid-19, the
Ruth Coppinger & Seanad election – strong vote for socialist ideas
By Oisín Kelly Ruth Coppinger obtained a strong vote in the National University of Ireland (NUI) Seanad election with 9.5% of the first preference
Nevada homelessness – a picture of US capitalism today
By Harper Cleves In the last weekend of March, images of a parking lot converted into a homeless shelter in Las Vegas, Nevada sparked
Coronavirus crisis – a socialist feminist view
By International Socialist Alternative (ISA) Women’s Bureau (ISA is the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is the Irish section of) The
Capitalism and the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919
By Keishia Taylor The 1918-1919 “Spanish Flu” killed between 50-100 million people, more than the number of deaths in the First and Second World
Housing crisis in a pandemic
By Andrea Murray Covid-19 has plunged the world into a situation of unparalleled uncertainty and anxiety, for none more so than those already suffering