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Cancel Leaving Cert 2020 now! Listen to the students!

Statement from Mick Barry TD Leo Varadkar, Joe McHugh and the Department of Education display cold disregard for the opinions of 61,000 young people. Unmoved, they remain intent on bullying young people into sitting the Leaving Cert. This Dickensian meanness — even

May 3, 2020

Debenhams workers show the way to resist mass layoffs

Debenhams Ireland workers were sacked by email on Easter Thursday — just two days after the company had assured them their jobs were safe.

May 3, 2020

Reviews and Culture

Review: “Home – Why Public Housing is the Answer”

Review: “Home – Why Public Housing is the Answer” by Eoin Ó Broin, Merrion Press (2019) Reviewed by Michael O’Brien Though published in early 2019, Sinn Féin’s surge in this year’s general election fuelled a fresh spike in sales of this book

May 1, 2020

May Day 2020: Capitalism is the Virus – Socialism is the Only Cure

Five Reasons To Fight for a Socialist World in 2020

Apr 30, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

Trump Inaction Fuels Disaster

By Tony Wilsdon, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) The threat posed by COVID-19 was not a secret. The devastating spread of the virus in China, and the fact that it could be transmitted person-to-person was world news by the

Apr 29, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

Why Covid-19 is not the “great leveller”

By Robert Cosgrave The horrific Covid-19 crisis has graphically exposed the multiple inequalities and forms of oppression that lie at the heart of capitalism. Working-class people find themselves out of work and down on income. For those workers deemed essential, the same

Apr 28, 2020

Britain Leaked Report Reveals Sabotage by Labour Right

By Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales & Scotland) Poisonous, vindictive, laced with racist undertones, and breath-taking in their contempt for all those fighting to elect a Labour government with an anti-austerity programme. These descriptions perhaps go some

Apr 27, 2020

Food dumping: Obscene waste at a time of mass want

By Ollie Bell The Covid-19 crisis is exposing the inherent weaknesses in the capitalist system. The privatisation of the healthcare system in Ireland and globally means that hospitals are underprepared to deal with this global pandemic. But what is also clear are

Apr 26, 2020

Theory & History

Covid-19 lockdown & gender-based violence

By Andrea Murray As the outbreak of Covid-19 began to take hold, experts warned of the risk of increased gender based violence and abuse of children. Intimate partner violence increased significantly during the HIV / AIDS pandemic, Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks.

Apr 24, 2020

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