Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Still no country for single mothers

By Emma Quinn While the government scrambles to blame ordinary people for the state-sponsored torture of thousands of women and their children in Mother and Baby Homes, the Irish State continues to persecute and punish single mothers. In the last year, reports

Jan 21, 2021

News & Analysis

Government seeks to tax PUP while super-rich make a killing

By Oisín Kelly The government extracting income tax from Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP) stands in great contrast to its approach to the enormous wealth concentrated in the hands of the multi-millionaires and billionaires. The pandemic has exposed massive inequalities that exist in

Jan 20, 2021

Mother & Baby Homes report a whitewash — but Church and State are guilty!

By Ruth Coppinger For years, survivors and adoptees of so-called ‘mother and baby homes’ have sought justice. Governments promised they’d get it. Sadly, all they’ve received from official Ireland this week is yet another slap in the face. The church, the government

Jan 18, 2021

World News

10 Years of Revolution in the Arab World: Faded Spring?

By Sebastian Rave (member of our sister organistion in Germany) Like dominoes, the regimes fell in a huge revolutionary wave in 2011: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya, Saleh in Yemen. After capitalism demonstrated its continued vulnerability to

Jan 16, 2021

World News

Kshama Sawant’s speech at the rally against the recall

Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) and Seattle Councilmember, Kshama Sawant, is facing a recall campaign by right-wing and big business interests. Kshama was first elected to the Seattle City council in November 2013 and played a crucial in winning

Jan 15, 2021

World News

Argentina: Abortion legalised! A triumph for the ‘Green Tide’ movement

By Marcos Ariel, ISA (International Socialist Alternative- the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) supporter in Argentina In a historic day, the morning of December 30 and after 12 hours of debate, the archaic Argentine Senate approved the

Jan 13, 2021

News & Analysis

Brexit: A deal without winners

By Sarah Wrack, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) Four and a half years after the vote to leave the EU, a trade deal was finally agreed at the eleventh hour before Boris Johnson’s deadline of 31st December

Jan 12, 2021

World News

United States: Chaos in the capitol – build a movement to defeat the far-right

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative USA First came the notification: “Pro Trump mob breaks into Capitol building.” Then, “Congressmen being told to hide beneath their chairs,” followed by, “They’ve shot into the chambers.” The storming of the Capitol shocked hundreds of millions

Jan 11, 2021

World News

Hong Kong mass arrests – Xi Jinping strikes while Western powers are in disarray

Mass arrests of democratic opposition under China’s national security law ISA reporters in Hong Kong The latest sweeping crackdown by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) in Hong Kong effectively bans political opposition in the city. The fragile ‘democracy’ that has existed in Hong

Jan 9, 2021

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Public Service Pay Deal: A government exercise in containment that should be rejected

“Building Momentum” is the title given to the follow up to the Public Service Stability Agreement which expired at the end of 2020. The new agreement negotiated between the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on behalf of the government and the

Jan 8, 2021

Solidarity

Still no country for single mothers

Government seeks to tax PUP while super-rich make a killing

Mother & Baby Homes report a whitewash — but Church and State are guilty!

10 Years of Revolution in the Arab World: Faded Spring?

Kshama Sawant’s speech at the rally against the recall

Argentina: Abortion legalised! A triumph for the ‘Green Tide’ movement

Brexit: A deal without winners

United States: Chaos in the capitol – build a movement to defeat the far-right

Hong Kong mass arrests – Xi Jinping strikes while Western powers are in disarray

Public Service Pay Deal: A government exercise in containment that should be rejected

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden