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Strike & protests sends clear message: Take out the 8th

By Laura Fitzgerald March 8th 2017 saw young people spilling onto the streets for abortion rights, many thousands of whom had walked out of schools and colleges to join the action, often participating in their first protest. The age profile was

Apr 8, 2017

Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Is Sinn Féin right? Is a united Ireland on the agenda?

By Stephen Boyd The crisis at Stormont and Brexit has sparked debate and discussion on the prospects for a united Ireland. Sinn Féin, emboldened by their electoral success has seized on the opportunity to push for a border poll under the terms

Apr 6, 2017

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Socialists on trial

Three Socialist Party members – Solidarity TD Paul Murphy and Councillors Kieran Mahon and Mick Murphy – are among the first seven adult Jobstown defendants who will stand trial on Monday, 24 April. Eddie McCabe and Cillian Gillespie look at why socialists

Apr 3, 2017

News & Analysis

End the cruelty: Ban wild animals in circuses

By Carah Daniel Solidarity TD, Paul Murphy, has introduced the Prohibition of Wild Animals in Circuses Bill 2017 to the Dáil. The bill, if passed, would see an end to wild animals being used in circuses in Ireland. Travelling circuses with wild

Apr 1, 2017

The North

Martin McGuinness – from IRA leader to Stormont minister

The IRA campaign, the ‘peace process’ and the working class The death of Martin McGuinness has been marked by a genuine outpouring of grief in Catholic areas. His funeral became a celebration of a life of struggle and the tens of thousands

Mar 29, 2017

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

North: Divisive election a warning to the workers’ movement

By Daniel Waldron The snap Northern Ireland Assembly election took place in the aftermath of the ‘cash for ash’ scandal which emerged in December, the most recent in a series of debacles which left Stormont – and particularly the DUP – shrouded

Mar 16, 2017

World News

Scotland: Second referendum on independence?

By Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland The Scottish parliament will vote next week in favour of triggering a second independence referendum. With a pro-independence majority in the parliament among MSPs the vote is a formality. The exact timing of the referendum is

Mar 14, 2017

Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Protesting is not a crime: #JobstownNotGuilty

The heinous targeting of Maurice McCabe and other Garda whistle blowers and the targeting of the Jobstown protestors by the state are two sides of the same coin. On one side a sinister smear campaign waged to silence McCabe and others by

Mar 12, 2017

News & Analysis

Sinn Féin’s rightward shift continues

By Cillian Gillespie It would appear that the scandal surrounding the smearing of Maurice McCabe has drastically undermined the fate of this already weak Fine Gael minority government. The possibility of an election before the end of 2017 has increased substantially. Such

Mar 9, 2017

Theory & History

Russia 1917: When women workers sparked a revolution

By Fiona O’Loughlin “On the morning of 23 February, one could hear women’s voices in the lane which the windows of our department overlooked: ‘Down with the war! Down with the high prices! Down with hunger! Bread for the workers!’ Myself and

Mar 8, 2017

Solidarity

Strike & protests sends clear message: Take out the 8th

Is Sinn Féin right? Is a united Ireland on the agenda?

Socialists on trial

End the cruelty: Ban wild animals in circuses

Martin McGuinness – from IRA leader to Stormont minister

North: Divisive election a warning to the workers’ movement

Scotland: Second referendum on independence?

Protesting is not a crime: #JobstownNotGuilty

Sinn Féin’s rightward shift continues

Russia 1917: When women workers sparked a revolution

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden