Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Precarity- Why a new generation of workers must organise

From fast food workers getting organised to fight for a living wage, to Uber drivers fighting a company infamous for its use of bogus self-employment models, to McDonalds’ workers in the US saying ‘No More’ to sexual harassment, a section of workers

Dec 6, 2018

Environment

Huge climate change protests in Brussels

More people are concerned and anxious: the future of our planet is on the line. The recent IPCC-report claims we have only 12 years to avoid irreversible environmental disaster. Despite the warning signs, the political establishment do not seem to grasp the

Dec 5, 2018

Theory & History

50 years on- The real history of the Prague Spring

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring when the rule of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia and in the entire “Eastern Bloc” was threatened. Solidarity TD and Socialist Party member Mick Barry looks at the lessons of these explosive events. On

Dec 3, 2018

Anti-racism·News & Analysis

Opposing racism and the far right

The election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s Presidential election is an important warning of the growth in support for the far right and right-populism across the world. His election by a 10% margin will mean the formation of the first far-right government

Dec 1, 2018

News & Analysis

Review: Nae Pasaran directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra

Nae Pasaran Directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra Debasers Filums, 2018 Reviewed by Neil Moore On the 45th anniversary of the brutal military coup in Chile, a new documentary tells the story of a group of Scottish factory workers and their incredible act

Nov 24, 2018

News & Analysis

Brexit and the border: A warning to the workers movement

By Socialist Party reporter On March 29th 2019 the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union. For seventeen months the British government and the EU negotiators have been struggling to reach a legally binding “withdrawal agreement” to govern the terms

Nov 22, 2018

Theory & History

November 1918: When workers revolution ended war

By Kevin Henry “The old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” – It is sweet and honourable to die for ones country. This is how Wilfred Owen summed up the attitude of a generation sent to war under the illusion

Nov 18, 2018

Socialist Feminism

Spanish State: 1.5 million school students strike against sexism

The general student strike called by the Sindicato de Estudiantes (SE – students union) and Libres y Combativas (free and combative, socialist feminist platform of SE and Izquierda Revolucionaria – sister organisation of the Socialist Party in the Spanish state) has been

Nov 16, 2018

#ThisIsNotConsent: Victim-blaming in rape trial provokes mass anger

By Socialist Party reporter “Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong

Nov 15, 2018

News & Analysis

Maurice McCabe and the rot inside the state

By James McCabe Whistleblower Maurice McCabe’s efforts to expose corruption in the local Garda force in Cavan was met with vicious reprisals from the national leadership of An Garda Síochána. Misconduct and corruption are nothing new for the police force of this

Nov 14, 2018

Solidarity

Precarity- Why a new generation of workers must organise

Huge climate change protests in Brussels

50 years on- The real history of the Prague Spring

Opposing racism and the far right

Review: Nae Pasaran directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra

Brexit and the border: A warning to the workers movement

November 1918: When workers revolution ended war

Spanish State: 1.5 million school students strike against sexism

#ThisIsNotConsent: Victim-blaming in rape trial provokes mass anger

Maurice McCabe and the rot inside the state

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden