Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Interview: Hospitality workers need to organise

The hospitality sector has experienced an unprecedented level of attacks on workers’ conditions and pay, with the employers utilizing the Covid pandemic and lockdowns as a convenient cover for dodgy employment practices. Despite this, workers in the sector have been attempting to

Jul 17, 2021

Solidarity with the Cuban People against imperialism and capitalist restoration

Statement by International Socialist Alternative The shortage of medicines, as well as the growing economic crisis which has been aggravated by the pandemic, has generated a growing discontent among Cuban working people, who took to the streets on July 11. The ruling

Jul 16, 2021

World News

Billionaire space race: Shameless vanity projects in a world of want

By Manus Lenihan It is a pity Jeff Bezos is only going to be up in space for three minutes. If he stayed for a few hours he would find out that astronauts are the only people with worse toilet arrangements than

Jul 16, 2021

World News

The rising wave of revolt in Latin America

By Jonathan Diebold A tidal wave of protests and mass movements has been crashing over Latin America. Its origins date back years, but it really took off around 2019. From Mexico to Brazil, Chile to Haiti, working-class people are spearheading movements against

Jul 15, 2021

Defend the right to protest- Drop the fines against ROSA activists!

In the first known charge of its kind under the Public Health Act Covid regulations, members of ROSA have been fined up to €500 and face prosecution over safe, outdoor protests highlighting gender violence during the pandemic. This follows activists in Belfast

Jul 14, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·News & Analysis

The Delta threat: Premature opening of hospitality as Covid cases spike

By Cathal Curran The more contagious Delta variant of Covid is driving record infection numbers across Europe. The Netherlands, for example, recorded over 10,000 new cases in one day. Delta is now the dominant strain here. This forms the backdrop of the

Jul 13, 2021

News & Analysis

Dublin Bay South by-election: Humiliating vote deepens Fianna Fáil crisis

By Colm McCarthy For the Government, the loss of Fine Gael’s seat in Dublin Bay South to Ivana Bacik of the Labour Party was a notable defeat. Fine Gael hoped the party and government would gain a bounce in the polls because

Jul 12, 2021

World News

An ignominious end: US imperialism withdraws from Afghanistan

By Eddie McCabe US imperialism’s 20-year war in Afghanistan has come to an ignominious end with the final withdrawal of its 2,500 remaining troops this month. The withdrawal comes two months before Biden’s deadline of 11 September — the 20th anniversary of

Jul 11, 2021

Featured Articles·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

5 reasons why capitalism can’t be patched up, and has to go

By Eddie McCabe If the world today seems chaotic and the future looks bleak, try to remember one thing: it’s not you, it’s capitalism. The accelerating decay of this system is increasing the rate of all kinds of disasters, as well as

Jul 10, 2021

Environment·Uncategorized·World News

No climate future without system change

Two years after the first global climate strike on 19 March 2019, despite the acute situation, Covid-19 has pushed the question into the background. Yet the coronavirus is in itself a judgement on the capitalist mode of production which destroys ecosystems and

Jul 8, 2021

Solidarity

Interview: Hospitality workers need to organise

Solidarity with the Cuban People against imperialism and capitalist restoration

Billionaire space race: Shameless vanity projects in a world of want

The rising wave of revolt in Latin America

Defend the right to protest- Drop the fines against ROSA activists!

The Delta threat: Premature opening of hospitality as Covid cases spike

Dublin Bay South by-election: Humiliating vote deepens Fianna Fáil crisis

An ignominious end: US imperialism withdraws from Afghanistan

5 reasons why capitalism can’t be patched up, and has to go

No climate future without system change

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