The 8th Repealed- How Yes was won
By Socialist Party reporters The referendum to scrap the ban on abortion was easily passed with 66.4% to 33.6% on a turnout of over
“Bold, brave, undaunted”- The Life & Ideas of James Connolly
5 June 2018 will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of James Connolly. The following article was originally written for the Socialist Party’s publication
Middle East: Oppose imperialism and Israeli State Terror
Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales Around the world people have watched in horror at the unfolding
Women, the Church & the Irish State: A history of misogyny & repression
By Aislinn O’ Keeffe The power of the Catholic Church in Ireland was cemented even before the founding of the Irish Free State in
What’s fuelling the global revolt against misogyny & sexism?
Young people are entering the stage of struggle. This new wave of activists hold ideas of equality and liberation from oppression as central to
Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle: the working class & revolution
Two hundred years since Karl Marx was born and 170 years since his most famous work, The Communist Manifesto, was published, Eddie McCabe looks
Why you should be a socialist
By Cillian Gillespie How can five of the richest people on the planet have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion? Why did
100 years on: When working class power defeated conscription
April 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of a historic general strike in Ireland. Cillian Gillespie looks at the events of this strike and