Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Covid-19 crisis and the ideology of individualism

By Dan O’Rourke Before the pandemic, it would have been difficult for many to imagine neo-liberal and right-wing governments nationalising failing industries, freezing rents, and the partial (and temporary) lifting of austerity. Before the pandemic, essential workers were “unskilled”. Before the pandemic,

May 22, 2020

How Big Pharma blocks our healthcare

By Summer Conneely Within the current Covid-19 crisis, there are important negotiations occurring among the world’s leaders on how to develop and distribute any potential drugs or vaccines, with Donald Trump adopting an “America first” approach, and the EU largely supporting a

May 20, 2020

Theory & History

Keynes, the crisis of neoliberalism and why capitalism can’t be reformed

Covid-19 has turned the world upside down, making all that was considered impossible now seem possible. In the context of a new crisis for capitalism and the undermining of the neoliberal order globally, the ideas of the liberal economist John Maynard Keynes

May 19, 2020

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Covid-19, Disaster Capitalism & the Urgent Case for Socialism

By Eddie McCabe & Keishia Taylor, from the Summer 2020 edition of Socialist Alternative, the political journal of the Socialist Party. Capitalism must go. Virtually everything about the world today screams this. Take for example that in the midst of a global

May 18, 2020

The fight for the wellbeing of LGBTQI+ people continues!

Today is the 17th of May, international day against LGBT phobia. Activities and parades normally take place in several countries on this day. However, considering the current corona crisis, hardly anything remains of this. Besides cancelling and/or postponing symbolic and political events

May 17, 2020

Uncategorized

#RentStrike2020 in the US — Organising against profiteering in a pandemic

By Siria Garcia The mid March COVID-19 lockdowns came too late to quell the spread of the disease across the US, with over 90,000 lives lost and tens of millions without the means to meet even their most basic needs. The last

May 16, 2020

How we can organise & win an alternative to the Leaving Cert

By Myriam Poizat All over the world, frontline and essential workers are being left with very little or no PPE, and non-essential workers are being forced back into work in dangerous circumstances in the name of capitalists’ profits. At the same time,

May 16, 2020