Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Johnson praises the role of “capitalism and greed” in Covid response

By Daniel Waldron On the anniversary of the first lockdown in the UK, Boris Johnson proclaimed to Tory backbenchers, “The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends.” The real result of the Tories’ callous,

Apr 16, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Reeling in the Years (2010)

Reviewed by Manus Lenihan Just gonna stand there and watch me burn […] Just gonna stand there and hear me cry […] – Eminem with Rihanna, ‘Love the way you lie,’ 2010 RTÉ’s Reeling in the Years has aired an episode covering

Apr 15, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis

New Climate Action Bill: Still a weak response to urgent crisis

By Padraig O’Flynn To muted fanfare and coverage the government recently published its Climate Action Bill. The document might appear ambitious on the surface, but, on closer inspection, specific measures for achieving these targets are largely absent. Weak proposals Indeed, the most

Apr 14, 2021

World News

India: Workers & farmers resist Modi’s brutal regime

India saw the world’s largest-ever general strike in 2020 with hundreds of millions of workers and trade unionists supporting farmers in their struggle against the right-wing policies of the Modi government. Martina Stafford reports on this mass movement. India’s capitalist government is

Apr 14, 2021

News & Analysis

One year of the English Language Student Union

It’s been a year now since the establishment of the English Language Students’ Union (ELSU Ireland). The Covid-19 pandemic triggered a major crisis in the English Language Education (ELE) school sector. Identifying the vulnerable situations many international English-language students found themselves in,

Apr 12, 2021

World News

The End of Growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis

The question of economic growth and its relation to the climate crisis is a subject of increasing discussion. Conor Payne and Chris Stewart delve into this question and offer a Marxist view on this critical issue for the environmental movement. Many ecologists,

Apr 11, 2021

News & Analysis·The North

Socialist Party statement on the rioting in Belfast

No going back! Fight for working-class unity! Protests and rioting have taken place over recent days in Protestant working-class areas across Northern Ireland, last night escalating into clashes at the ‘peace wall’ on Lanark Way in Belfast. There is now a real

Apr 8, 2021

Debenhams – Year Long Still Strong!

On a number of occasions, as various milestones were passed, the Debenhams shop stewards have said that they did not set out to break records. However, to sustain a struggle for a year in the freakish circumstances of a pandemic and a

Apr 8, 2021

World News

Despite growth projections, world economy is deeply unstable

By Tom Crean The devastation caused by the pandemic-triggered global downturn in 2020 is hard to overstate. It was the biggest economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Across the world, working hours equivalent to 255 million jobs were lost.

Apr 7, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Seaspiracy directed by Ali Tabrizi

Seaspiracy, Netflix, 2021, Director: Ali Tabrizi Reviewed by Heather O’Callaghan In a new Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy, the British filmmaker, Ali Tabrizi, tackles ocean pollution and sustainability and embarks on a worldwide voyage to answer questions of why sea pollution has gotten so

Apr 6, 2021

Solidarity

Johnson praises the role of “capitalism and greed” in Covid response

Review: Reeling in the Years (2010)

New Climate Action Bill: Still a weak response to urgent crisis

India: Workers & farmers resist Modi’s brutal regime

One year of the English Language Student Union

The End of Growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis

Socialist Party statement on the rioting in Belfast

Debenhams – Year Long Still Strong!

Despite growth projections, world economy is deeply unstable

Review: Seaspiracy directed by Ali Tabrizi

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden