US: Victory for socialist in Seattle!
An interview with Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative.
Interview: Government assault on young people
Monika Janas, interviewed Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin on the stance he has taken against JobBridge exploitation and youth unemployment.
Release Putin’s political prisoner
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a Russian political activist and member of the punk group Pussy Riot, was jailed in August 2012 for hooliganism and blasphemy. Her crime was to stage an anti-Putin protest, along with two other performers, inside Moscow's Orthodox Cathedral. Despite claims
Sinn Fein: “He who pays the piper calls the tune?”
Recent articles in the press have highlighted the massive funding Sinn Féin received from US companies from November 2012 to May 2013, amounting to a grand total of $392,000 (€290,000.)
Philippines: Typhoon destruction aggravated by capitalism
Typhoon Haiyan (‘Yolanda’ in the Philippines) has caused destruction on a massive scale. This storm was three times more powerful than Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,400 people in the United States in 2005.
The expanding gap between the 1% & 99%
For years now workers have been told by right-wing politicians and economists that we need to tighten our belts whilst waxing lyrically about “green shoots of recovery”.
Socialist Party condemns racist attacks in Tallaght
Racist incidents need to be met with strong community response.
Interview & review – Utopia by John Pilger
John Pilger, the renowned investigative journalist and award winning film maker, has recently completed a new film, Utopia, which deals with the subjugation of the Aboriginal First Australians. Niall Mulholland interviews John about the film’s themes, followed with a review of Utopia.
Need for alternative policies to austerity is glaringly obvious
The Red C Opinion Poll published yesterday showing 76% of the people supporting same sex marriage is a stunning indication of how attitudes to sensitive social issues continue to be transformed in this country.
US: Socialist Alternative election campaigns create shockwaves
Two Socialist Alternative candidates sent historic shock waves through the U.S. left last night. Both candidates, Kshama Sawant in Seattle and Ty Moore in Minneapolis, mounted the strongest election campaigns by open socialists in a major U.S. city in many decades.
Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity
Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden
