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This rotten system must go- Join the socialists today

By Laura Fitzgerald “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is… at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole” – Karl Marx The richest 1% global elite own more wealth than the

Mar 24, 2016

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Workplace News

Luas drivers show the way-Strike for a real recovery

AAA TD and Socialist Party member Paul Murphy on the Luas strike.

Mar 24, 2016

World News

Polarisation grows in US Presidential elections

Article by members of Socialist Alternative, the sister organisation of the Socialist Party in the US, on the Bernie Sanders’ challenge and how a new party for the 99% can be built. Bernie Sander’s political revolution will be strangled if it remains

Mar 16, 2016

The real ideas of James Connolly

The following article was written by Peter Hadden (who sadly passed away in May 2010) on the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising and death of James Connolly. The article explores Connolly’s socialist ideas and analysis and his role as a workers

Mar 16, 2016

News & Analysis

Mental health crisis- Action needed now

By Ciaran Mulholland Our health care system is in crisis. This is most clearly illustrated by the many hundreds waiting on trolleys in Accident and Emergency Departments every weekend, and by the long waiting lists for planned surgery. Another aspect of the

Mar 15, 2016

Establishment parties hit a wall of anger – political crisis looms

By Cillian Gillespie and Ruth Coppinger TD “It is clear that, as James Connolly said a hundred years ago: “the day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go”. We need democratic public control and ownership of wealth and

Mar 11, 2016

News & Analysis

Frank Gallagher: Committed working class fighter & socialist

By Ciarán McKenna On 7 March Comrade Frank Gallagher passed away following a long illness. Frank dedicated his life to fighting with and for working class people. He was born and raised in Drogheda, County Louth. Following study at the Crawford Institute

Mar 11, 2016

News & Analysis·Ruth Coppinger

Election result Dublin West – Sinn Féin blame everyone but themselves

Socialist Party responds to criticisms from Sinn Féin

Mar 5, 2016

Dublin West- Socialist Party responds to attacks on AAA

Unfortunately, since the count concluded in Dublin West on Saturday night, there has been a campaign of misinformation and lies putting forward the incredible idea that Ruth Coppinger, Joe Higgins and the AAA campaign unfairly scuppered Paul Donnelly and caused Joan Burton

Mar 1, 2016

Theory & History

Socialists & the National Question

Over the last two decades, in the aftermath of paramilitary ceasefires in 1994 and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, it has been argued that the foundations have been laid to overcome sectarian conflict and division. KEVIN HENRY

Jan 15, 2016

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