Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Oppose outsourcing and attacks on union rights: Solidarity with ESB technicians

Text of the Socialist Party leaflet in support of striking ESB network technicians. ESB network technicians and members of the Independent Workers Union (IWU) are to be applauded for the industrial action they are taking against the creeping privatisation of the company,

Apr 29, 2021

News & Analysis

Ban on evictions & rent increases lifted as the housing crisis continues

By Councillor Fiona Ryan The government has recently ended its blanket ban on evictions, opening the way for predatory landlords to evict and increase rents. This is at a time when unemployment remains at 25% and youth unemployment at 59%. With young

Apr 28, 2021

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

From harassment to femicide: How capitalism breeds gender violence

By Harper Cleves On 3 March 2021, 33 year-old Sarah Everard went missing. It was soon thereafter discovered that she had been kidnapped and murdered, most likely by a member of the Metropolitan police, while walking home at 9pm at night. This

Apr 26, 2021

World News

USA: Chauvin Convicted, Movement Must Continue

By Rebecca Green, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Just as the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin was announced, Columbus police shot and killed another Black person, this time a sixteen-year-old girl named Ma’Khia Bryant. This was the second

Apr 26, 2021

News & Analysis

Eyewitness report: Gardaí do KPMG’s dirty work at Debenhams

By Dan O’Rourke Gardaí acting on behalf of KPMG used massive force to break the picket line of the former Debenhams workers at Henry Street in Dublin last Thursday night. Up to that point the workers had been blockading the shop’s loading

Apr 25, 2021

News & Analysis

KBC creates job massacre and mortgage crisis

By Leonard McArthur KBC Bank has chosen to withdraw from the Irish market after 40 plus years of operations with the loss of 1,400 jobs at a time of massive unemployment. This sudden evacuation is likely fueled by the profound uncertainty that

Apr 23, 2021

Uncategorized·World News

Global tax reform: Is capitalism making the rich pay?

By Per-Ake Westerlund, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (our sister organisation in Sweden) Why are the IMF, Joe Biden and the UK government, among many other capitalist institutions and governments suddenly advocating increased taxes? And will such measures solve any of the accumulating problems in the

Apr 21, 2021

News & Analysis

“European Super League” — Stop the People’s Game becoming the Princes’ Game

By Matt Waine The news that 12 top European football clubs are on course to establish a new ‘European Super League’ has been met with rage by football fans across Europe. The so-called “Big Six” in the English Premier League (Liverpool, Manchester

Apr 19, 2021

News & Analysis

Big pharma’s patents: Profiting from the pandemic

By Jonathan Diebold The rapid development of the Covid-19 vaccine has given us a glimpse of what humanity can achieve given enough drive and resources. However, it has also demonstrated the shortcomings of capitalism, and of patent laws and the reliance of

Apr 19, 2021

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

Review: The People Want To Overthrow The System

The People Want To Overthrow The System By Cedric Gérôme Published by International Socialist Alternative, 2021 Reviewed by Peter McGregor This book delves into the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary processes that unfolded in Tunisia between 2010 and 2013. Gérôme, a leading ISA member

Apr 17, 2021

Solidarity

Oppose outsourcing and attacks on union rights: Solidarity with ESB technicians

Ban on evictions & rent increases lifted as the housing crisis continues

From harassment to femicide: How capitalism breeds gender violence

USA: Chauvin Convicted, Movement Must Continue

Eyewitness report: Gardaí do KPMG’s dirty work at Debenhams

KBC creates job massacre and mortgage crisis

Global tax reform: Is capitalism making the rich pay?

“European Super League” — Stop the People’s Game becoming the Princes’ Game

Big pharma’s patents: Profiting from the pandemic

Review: The People Want To Overthrow The System

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden