Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

North: Unison members’ backlash – how should trade unionists respond?

One hundred and ten British Army medics have been deployed to Northern Ireland hospitals to assist with the Covid crisis, operating as regular NHS staff. In the aftermath of this announcement, many Unison members and branches reacted angrily to a statement issued

Feb 1, 2021

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

Film review: Dear Comrades!

Reviewed by Manus Lenihan Dear Comrades!, a film directed and written by renowned filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky, tells the story of a massacre of striking workers that took place in the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1962. This is an understated film, all in

Jan 30, 2021

News & Analysis

Stock market gambling & GameStop: The billionaires own the casino

By Conor Tormey The price of shares for GameStop went up 700% in the past week due to what people have called a “bloodbath” with small investors, organised through a subgroup on Reddit, going against a Wall Street hedge fund’s prediction that

Jan 29, 2021

Theory & History

Revolutionary anniversary — 130 Years since birth of Antonio Gramsci

By Massimo Amadori from Resistenze Internazionali — our sister organisation in Italy Antonio Gramsci is certainly one of the most popular Marxist thinkers, and is considered one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. In recent years, his ideas have been

Jan 28, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Film review: Rocks

By Shane Finnan Sarah Gavron’s Rocks is a modern coming-of-age film, focused on the life and struggles of the main character, Olushola “Rocks” Omotoso. The film is set in pre-Covid London, and follows Rocks’ and her group of teenage girl schoolmates in

Jan 27, 2021

Oxfam report: Grotesque inequality exacerbated by pandemic

By Leon Fitzpatrick The latest Oxfam report forecasts good news and bad news for the world’s population as Covid-19 continues its rampage. Great news for the 10 richest men in the world who have seen their combined wealth increase by half a

Jan 27, 2021

World News

Russia — Anti-corruption Protests “Down with the Tsar — For a new 1917”

Over 100 cities across nine time zones from Vladivostok in the Far East to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Coast, from Magadan and Murmansk through Yakutia, where the temperature was fifty degrees below zero, to sunny Sochi on the Black Sea and Sebastopol

Jan 26, 2021

World News

Australia: Growing support for recognising Invasion Day

January 26 will once again see Invasion Day rallies for Indigenous rights across Australia. More and more people in Australia recognise the hurt associated with the official ‘Australia Day’ holiday. January 26 was chosen as the date the First Fleet arrived in 1788.

Jan 26, 2021

Anti-racism·News & Analysis

A tragic injustice: Uncovering the truth about George Nkencho’s killing

By Eddie McCabe The tumultuous year that was 2020 ended with the tragic shooting in Dublin 15 of George Nkencho — a 27 year-old Black man — by the Garda Armed Support Unit. News of the shooting and the events surrounding it

Jan 25, 2021

News & Analysis

Poland — the women’s strike movement and the way forward

When judges sitting as a ‘Constitutional Tribunal’ ruled to make practically all cases of abortion illegal, even when the foetus has a severe and permanent disability or incurable disease, a massive protest, the women’s strike — Strajk Kobiet, broke out by Tiphaine

Jan 23, 2021

Solidarity