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White Moose Cafe Twitter outrage & exploitative practices in the hospitality industry

By Dan O’Rourke The White Moose Café in North Dublin, and it’s owner Paul Stenson, have recently been the focus of another round of social media outrage. This time for alleged exploitative work practices, as well as the usual deliberately inflammatory social

May 8, 2021

World News

US: Mass pressure forces Biden to reverse position on big pharma’s vaccine patents

By Kshama Sawant For months, a global struggle has been developing to demand that the governments of wealthy, Western nations put people before billionaire profit, and end the stunning inequity in access to the life-saving COVID-19 vaccine. The rapid and widespread global

May 6, 2021

News & Analysis·The North

Hospitality reopens in the North: Workers must be organised

by Neil Moore The announcement of the reopening of hospitality venues by the Northern Ireland Executive has been widely welcomed by workers and young people, including those working in the industry. This comes after a long year of lockdowns, job losses and

May 5, 2021

What’s impeding the vaccine rollout?

By Keishia Taylor The end is in sight – over a million Irish residents, or just over a quarter of the adult population, have received at least one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, or Moderna vaccines. The rollout is underway, despite various

May 4, 2021

News & Analysis

PUP in crosshairs as youth unemployment at record levels

By Leon Fitzpatrick Given the scale of the economic collapse and job losses that followed the onset of the pandemic last year the government was forced to introduce the Pandemic Unemployment Payment of €350. From its inception, the PUP has been a

May 4, 2021

World News

India: Second wave of Covid-19 has terrible consequences for masses

By Mohamed Nawaz, supporter of International Socialist Alternative (ISA) in India- The Socialist Party is the Irish section of ISA Ordinary people are forced to run from door to door, hospital to hospital in search of basic amenities which should be provided

May 3, 2021

Workers' Rights·World News

May Day 2021: Organise to fight for global socialism!

International Socialist Alternative would like to extend May Day greetings to all socialists, trade unionists and fighters against oppression and capitalism around the world. After over a year of devastating global crisis in which the activity of the labour movement was restricted

May 1, 2021

Economy·News & Analysis·Workplace News

Carphone Warehouse closure: latest casualty of retail jobs crisis

By Peter McGregor Carphone Warehouse has moved in recent days to shut down all of their Irish stores, 69 individual stores and 12 within other stores. This move will result in a total of 486 redundancies. The news was followed by the

May 1, 2021

Don’t risk a fourth wave: No reopening which puts profit over health

By Conor Payne From 4 May on, the government plans further measures to reopen the economy and lift Covid restrictions. These include the reopening of non-essential retail starting with Click and Collect on 10 May, hairdressers and other personal services on 10

Apr 30, 2021

News & Analysis

Dangerous precedent: Gardaí ban taxi drivers’ socially-distanced protest

By Brian McCarthy Gardaí have banned a taxi drivers’ protest which was planned for Thursday 29 April, using public health grounds as a pretext. This is despite the fact that the drivers would have remained in their cars, minimising any potential public

Apr 29, 2021

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