Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

240 jobs on the chopping block- Fight the closure of Cork Mail Centre

By Mick Barry TD An Post announced plans in late June to shut the Cork Mail Centre (CMC) by March 2020 with the loss of 240 jobs. The news was announced at a mass meeting of staff at the end of June.

Jul 3, 2019

Spanish State: ‘Wolfpack’ rapists convicted by Supreme Court

By John Hird, member of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI- the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party in Ireland is affiliated to) In an important victory for the mass feminist movement, the Spanish supreme court has increased the

Jul 1, 2019

Anti-war·World News

Trump’s warmongering and Iran- No to imperialist war in the Middle East

By George Martin Fell Brown, member of Socialist Alternative- our sister organisation in the US> The United States is dangerously close to a military conflict with Iran. The catalyst was the shooting down by Iran of a U.S. military drone on June

Jun 30, 2019

LGBTQ

50 years since Stonewall — PRIDE in LGBTQ Struggle & Solidarity!

Below is the text of the Socialist Party leaflet given out at Pride 2019 in Dublin. Fifty years ago this month, members of the LGBTQ+ community in New York City took a defiant and courageous stand against oppression and discrimination in the

Jun 29, 2019

Oppose job losses in Cork Mail Centre

Socialist Party member and Solidarity TD Mick Barry said this morning that it makes no sense to close the Cork Mail Centre with the loss of 216 jobs at a time when the demand for parcel post is going through the roof.

Jun 26, 2019

What do Trump’s Trade and Tech Wars Mean for Global Capitalism?

The following article is written by Vincent Kolo of ChinaWorker.info, the website of the Chinese section of the Committee for a Workers International, with which Socialist Party in the Ireland is affiliated to. The escalating U.S.-China conflict is nothing short of a major crisis

Jun 25, 2019

LGBTQ·Uncategorized

LGBTQ+ liberation 50 years since the Stonewall uprising

By Ollie Bell With the commercialisation of Pride, it is important to remember that the modern LGBTQ+ movement started off as a radical, grassroots liberation movement. It has been 50 years since the Stonewall Uprising. This began as a demonstration against a

Jun 25, 2019

Uncategorized

A generation faced with stress & anxiety

By Heather O’Callaghan At the end of May, The Irish Times released a survey of young people between the ages of 16 and 21 conducted by Young Social Innovators. Sixty percent of those surveyed described their generation as stressed, anxious and depressed,

Jun 24, 2019

Socialist Feminism

No Contact Order Bill: Taking a stand against gender-based violence

By Harper Cleaves A new report put out by the United Nations on homicide reveals that 87,000 women were murdered globally in 2017, and that over half of these women were killed by intimate partners or family members. This means that every

Jun 22, 2019

Socialist Feminism

New assault on abortion rights in the US

By Lucy Marron In May, the Alabama legislature passed a near total ban on abortion, the most restrictive state law in the US since the Roe v. Wade ruling made access to terminations a federal right in 1973. This bill makes abortion

Jun 21, 2019

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