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Nurses & midwives deserve better: no more poverty wages & unbearable conditions

By Catherine Finnegan Despite being nearly two years into the pandemic that has put healthcare workers at huge risk, nurses and midwives continue to be cruelly underpaid and overworked. The latest surge of Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm the health service, but nurses

Nov 25, 2021

Anti-racism·News & Analysis

Cork students protest racism in school

By Brian McCarthy A large anti-racist protest was organised by school students at Glanmire Community College (GCC) in Cork on Friday, 12 November. The protest was about the fact that two students have been suspended for speaking out against racism. Many students

Nov 24, 2021

News & Analysis

No more data centres: stop kowtowing to the interests of Big Tech

By James McCabe The government has refused to rule out the possibility of electricity blackouts this winter. At a time of exponential rises in the price of electricity and gas for ordinary households, it has become apparent that data centres are creating

Nov 23, 2021

Socialist Feminism·World News

ISA statement on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

ISA’s International Women’s Bureau and ROSA International 2021 has been another year of struggle against sexism, LGBTQphobia and racism, including mass protests and strikes, inspiring examples of solidarity being built amongst workers of all genders. At the Mercedes plant in the Basque

Nov 22, 2021

News & Analysis

Inflation & the cost of living crisis: cut profits not pay!

By Harry Matthews As 2021 draws to close, it feels like we are lurching from one crisis to another. Perhaps it’s because we are. One year on from our first Christmas lockdown and our health system is on the brink with ICU

Nov 19, 2021

Anti-racism·World News

USA: Kyle Rittenhouse on trial – build A movement to defeat the far-right

By Will Fitzgerald, Socialist Alternative USA Since the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement just over a year ago, millions of people internationally have stood shoulder to shoulder in the fight against the police brutality and racial injustice produced by capitalism.

Nov 19, 2021

World News

Belarus-Polish Border: Refugees treated like animals as imperialist tensions increase

Joint statement by ISA members from Poland, Belarus, Syria and Russia about the crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border as thousands of refugees have been caught in a no-man’s land between the two countries on the edge of the European Union. For weeks

Nov 18, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis·The North

‘Blah, Blah Blah’ from Stormont on the climate crisis

“Blah, blah, blah” is how Greta Thunberg has described what we get from politicians across the world. This is strikingly seen at the COP26 climate conference where world leaders “lobbied” to water down reports which expose the urgency of the climate crisis.

Nov 17, 2021

News & Analysis

International socialists mobilise in Glasgow for COP26 protests

By Marie O’Toole, ISA COP26 organising team World leaders have been gathering in Glasgow these past two weeks for the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in order to give the global capitalist system a fresh coat of green paint. What was always

Nov 15, 2021

Theory & History

Lessons from the First Intifada: When mass struggle shook the Israeli regime

In May 2021, as Gaza was under another murderous assault by the Israel state, a major wave of solidarity protests with the Palestinian people swept the globe. This was combined with protests and a general strike of Palestinians in Gaza, the West

Nov 15, 2021

Solidarity

Nurses & midwives deserve better: no more poverty wages & unbearable conditions

Cork students protest racism in school

No more data centres: stop kowtowing to the interests of Big Tech

ISA statement on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Inflation & the cost of living crisis: cut profits not pay!

USA: Kyle Rittenhouse on trial – build A movement to defeat the far-right

Belarus-Polish Border: Refugees treated like animals as imperialist tensions increase

‘Blah, Blah Blah’ from Stormont on the climate crisis

International socialists mobilise in Glasgow for COP26 protests

Lessons from the First Intifada: When mass struggle shook the Israeli regime

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