Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

From the Classroom to the Streets: School students move into action

By Haritha Olaganathan We’ve all heard it before – on the 25 May 2018 over 1.4 million people voted in support of the pregnant person’s right to choose. Over the next year, this figure of 66.4% would be exhausted in the media;

Mar 16, 2019

News & Analysis

Shining a light on the rigged capitalist economy

By Megan Brady The State We Are In: Inequality in Ireland Today, a report recently published by TASC, an economic think-tank, has shone a spotlight on the appalling levels of inequality that exist in Ireland today. These inequalities are a direct result

Mar 15, 2019

8 March: International wave of mass struggle

International Women’s Day 2019 once again became a day of struggle around the world. It is, however, difficult to get an overview of all protests writes Elin Gauffin from Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in Sweden) . In some countries,

Mar 13, 2019

News & Analysis

Brexit: Trade unionists must stand for workers’ unity

By Kevin Henry As we go to press, it is over 750 days since the Stormont institutions collapsed in the wake of the RHI. This figure is likely to rise considerably, given the sectarian games of both the DUP and Sinn Féin

Mar 10, 2019

News & Analysis

Another attack on the unemployed: Abolish JobPath now!

By Kieran Mahon The collapse into administration of Working Links, one of the companies involved in the provision of the Jobpath “work activation” scheme, is a welcome one for those who have to deal with the Department of Social Protection. At least

Mar 9, 2019

Environment·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Climate change: Why capitalism is the problem

“Climate over Capitalism!” was the call of hundreds of school students in Manchester, protesting for effective measures to tackle climate change. This call is echoed throughout Europe in a myriad of school student protests in the past number of months writes Megan

Mar 7, 2019

News & Analysis

International Women’s Day 2019: The case for socialist feminism

By Keishia Taylor International Women’s Day was established by socialist women as a day of struggle against oppression and exploitation meted out by the capitalist system. A hundred years later, we have won the vote and equal rights by law, but women

Mar 5, 2019

What kind of trade union movement we need

By Michael O’Brien When the nurses and midwives embarked upon their strike action it was clear that they were not just up against the government, the HSE and a right-wing media. Unfortunately, they effectively found themselves up against the leaderships of other

Mar 2, 2019

Environment·News & Analysis

Food production, climate change and capitalism

By Ben Samson Food production is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the primary contributor to ecosystem destruction and biodiversity loss. In 2050, it’s estimated that the global population will have risen to 10 billion, placing an even greater strain on

Feb 28, 2019

100 Years since the founding of the Communist International

By Per-Ake Westerlund, member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in Sweden) 100 years ago, on March 2, 1919, 53 delegates from left and communist parties gathered at a congress in Moscow, with the goal of forming a new

Feb 27, 2019

Solidarity

From the Classroom to the Streets: School students move into action

Shining a light on the rigged capitalist economy

8 March: International wave of mass struggle

Brexit: Trade unionists must stand for workers’ unity

Another attack on the unemployed: Abolish JobPath now!

Climate change: Why capitalism is the problem

International Women’s Day 2019: The case for socialist feminism

Food production, climate change and capitalism

100 Years since the founding of the Communist International

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden