Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Agnes Tirop’s murder and the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence

By Harper Cleves On Wednesday, 13 October 25-year-old Kenyan long-distance runner Agnes Tirop was found tragically murdered in her home in Iten, Kenya. Her husband has been arrested as the prime suspect in this horrifically brutal crime. Tirop’s family have reported that

Oct 20, 2021

World News

The collapse of Evergrande — Chinese regime on horns of a dilemma

Evergrande, the Chinese property company, is missing one payment deadline after another. If it collapses the consequences could be huge for China’s economy, its authoritarian regime and for global capitalism. ISA talks to Vincent Kolo of chinaworker.info about what could happen. ISA: The

Oct 19, 2021

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

Review: What Britain did to Nigeria by Max Siollun

Hurst Publishers, 2021 Reviewed by Manus Lenihan The Black Lives Matter movement in the United States last year raised new questions for millions of people about racism and the history of slavery. But it also encouraged more people to think about imperialism.

Oct 19, 2021

Theory & History

40 years since the end of Hunger Strikes: How state repression could be fought

By Sean Burns The hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the events preceding them, was one of the many horrific chapters in the Troubles, and arguably helped create a new spiral of conflict and violence lasting for more than a decade. The Thatcher

Oct 17, 2021

News & Analysis

A neo-liberal technocrat: Owen Keegan must go!

By Michael O’Brien, former Dublin City Councillor A snide email response by Owen Keegan to UCD Students Union has rightly drawn condemnation. The latter were rightly pointing out to Keegan the accommodation crisis for students in the city that is in no

Oct 15, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review of RTÉ’s “Sold: The Eircom Shares Saga” – the fraud of “popular capitalism”

By Robert Cosgrave The RTÉ documentary, Sold: The Eircom Shares Saga, is not without its limitations, but it’s a more interesting fare than most of what you’d get from the “national broadcaster”. The documentary charts the story of the privatisation of the

Oct 14, 2021

World News

Ten years later – The importance of Occupy Wall Street

By Leon Pinsky, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) September saw the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the movement which opened a new chapter in the history of social struggle in the U.S. A decade later, we can

Oct 13, 2021

Landslide victory for referendum on the expropriation of Berlin real-estate companies

By Lucy Redler Lucy Redler ran for office as a direct candidate for the Left Party in the Neukölln electoral district of Berlin. She is a member of the Left Party, the Anticapitalist Left movement within the Left Party (Antikapitalistische Linke or

Oct 12, 2021

News & Analysis

Irish capitalism at the heart of Pandora Papers scandal

By Ben Samson For decades, the economic strategy of the Irish capitalist class and their political representatives has been built on turning Ireland into a tax haven for multinationals and the world’s super-rich. It is no surprise, then, that Ireland is so

Oct 12, 2021

World News

Brazil: Partido Socialismo E Liberdade (PSOL) faces its greatest historical test

By Marcus Kollbrunner, Delegate from LSR at the CongressLiberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (LSR) — our sister organisation in Brazil The Seventh National Congress of the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) took place 24–26 September against the background of the pandemic, and in

Oct 11, 2021

Solidarity

Agnes Tirop’s murder and the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence

The collapse of Evergrande — Chinese regime on horns of a dilemma

Review: What Britain did to Nigeria by Max Siollun

40 years since the end of Hunger Strikes: How state repression could be fought

A neo-liberal technocrat: Owen Keegan must go!

Review of RTÉ’s “Sold: The Eircom Shares Saga” – the fraud of “popular capitalism”

Ten years later – The importance of Occupy Wall Street

Landslide victory for referendum on the expropriation of Berlin real-estate companies

Irish capitalism at the heart of Pandora Papers scandal

Brazil: Partido Socialismo E Liberdade (PSOL) faces its greatest historical test

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Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden