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Bitcoin frenzy: How capitalism is fuelling another bubble

By Manus Lenihan The stock markets took a battering when Covid first hit in early 2020, but governments pumped them full of trillions in stimulus money. Thanks to this, Wall Street has swung wildly from a deep crisis to a series of

Mar 9, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·News & Analysis

Covid & system attack gains made by women over decades

By Katia Hancke The Covid crisis is creating unprecedented hardship for working class people all over the world – economically, socially, in terms of physical and mental health and in a multitude of other ways. But working class women are at risk

Mar 8, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Judas and The Black Messiah

“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred, and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their deaths, attempts are made to convert them

Mar 6, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·World News

Covid & economic depression threaten women’s gains: Organise, fight back!

Joint statement by International Socialist Alternative and ROSA International While 2019 was a year of massive revolt, in which women and particularly young women — and their demands — formed an integral part and were often at the frontlines, creating hope for

Mar 4, 2021

News & Analysis

Deliveroo workers getting organised

By Shane Finnan The working conditions of Deliveroo riders in Dublin have deteriorated over the course of the pandemic, their health and safety have been put at greater peril, with often tragic and fatal consequences. Last September saw the horrific killing of

Mar 3, 2021

News & Analysis

Leaving Cert – Students force Government change, but predictive grades not a solution

Blindsided by the third wave, the government maintained a fiction into January that a ‘traditional’ Leaving Cert could take place this summer. Such was Minister Foley’s pigheadedness that it took a revolt spearheaded by ASTI members, coupled with a fresh upsurge of

Mar 2, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Framing Britney Spears

By Aislinn O’Keeffe In 1992, a ten-year-old Britney Spears performed a powerful version of The Judds ‘Love Can Build a Bridge’. The host, Ed McMahon, interviewing her afterwards remarks on her ‘pretty eyes’ and asks her whether or not she has a

Mar 1, 2021

World News

Texas: Workers freeze due to billionaire greed

By Ryan Booker, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Last week, as a historic winter storm hit much of the United States and temperatures plummeted far below freezing, blackouts began to roll across the Texas power grid. At their peak,

Feb 28, 2021

The pandemic and the deepening mental health crisis

By Adam Dudley Before any of us had heard of Covid-19, one in 10 people globally lived with a mental health disorder. Ireland, North and South, has consistently registered levels higher than the average (around 15%) and some of the highest prevalence

Feb 26, 2021

World News

Spanish State: Mobilize against state repression — Freedom for Pablo Hasel

By Rob McDonald — Socialisme Revolucionari (our sister organisation in Catalonia) As the crises of capitalism deepen, so does state repression. The jailing of Pablo Hasel is the latest attack from a vicious Spanish state against fundamental freedoms that it is supposed

Feb 24, 2021

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