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Cáinaisnéis 2024: Éagothroime na gCaipitleach faoi Lánseol

Le Mick Barry TD Beidh gnáth-oibrithe níos measa as an bhliain seo chugainn ná mar a bhí in 2023. Tá an rialtas seo ag tabhairt tús-áite do leas lucht gnó is na saibhre thar riachtanais an ghnáthdhuine. Mór an náire iad. In

Oct 19, 2023

Economy·News & Analysis

Budget 2024: Capitalist inequality continues

By Mick Barry TD Working-class people will be worse off next year than we were in 2023. This government is shamefully prioritising the interests of big business and the super-rich over our needs. Despite all the government’s hype about the Budget, the

Oct 18, 2023

News & Analysis

Housing: Main opposition parties offer no real alternative

By Jonathan Diebold The government’s Budget for 2024 was generally met with a yawn across the country. Aside from a few noteworthy items like the landlord tax credit, which raised eyebrows among economists and ordinary people alike, by and large it met

Oct 17, 2023

Anti-war·Featured Articles·Palestine solidarity·World News

Stop the war and bloodshed – end the slaughter in Gaza

The besieged Palestinians of Gaza – the world’s largest open-air prison, home to 2.3 million oppressed people – are once again being bombarded by the racist and colonial Israeli State following Hamas’s unprecedented and indiscriminate attack. The barbaric ferocity of the Israeli

Oct 12, 2023

News & Analysis

Temple Street scandal – cruelty of dysfunctional health system exposed

By Emma Quinn The initial review of CHI Temple Street has exposed: Most of us will have winced reading recent reports of spinal surgeries in Temple Street hospital. It is a parent’s worst nightmare to have to accept the fact that you

Oct 10, 2023

Reviews and Culture

Review: The Old Oak directed by Ken Loach

Reviewed by Andrea Murray The Old Oak is widely rumoured to be Ken Loach’s last film. At its premier at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year he said, “I’m 87. My short-term memory is fading and my eyesight is not what

Oct 9, 2023

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

ISA statement on the new Cold War and Ukraine War

Introduction — “The single most important element of world relations” ISA has identified a New Cold War between US and Chinese imperialism, which has asserted itself, as “the single most important element of world relations” (ISA World Congress, February 2020). The war

Oct 6, 2023

World News

Morocco: Earthquake and lack of infrastructure kills thousands

By Arno D, PSL/LSP (our sister organisation in Belgium) On Friday 8 September, a terrible earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the Marrakesh-Safi region of Morocco. While the city of Marrakech more or less escaped, many villages in the Atlas

Sep 30, 2023

Featured Articles·Socialist Feminism·World News

Rise up for bodily autonomy – International Safe Abortion Day 2023

By Isidora Duran Stewart , Rosa Socialist Feminist Movement organiser — article first published on rosainternational.org “Legal abortion – so as not to die!” – is what is printed across the symbolic green scarves worn by inspiring feminist activists organising all over

Sep 28, 2023

News & Analysis

Deliveroo workers face low pay, precarity and dangerous working conditions

By Enda Kelly Reading about the experiences of food delivery riders is a revealing example of pure exploitation. Right now, Ireland’s minimum wage is €11.30, which falls far short of the living wage of €13.85 recommended by social justice Ireland (itself an

Sep 26, 2023

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Cáinaisnéis 2024: Éagothroime na gCaipitleach faoi Lánseol

Budget 2024: Capitalist inequality continues

Housing: Main opposition parties offer no real alternative

Stop the war and bloodshed – end the slaughter in Gaza

Temple Street scandal – cruelty of dysfunctional health system exposed

Review: The Old Oak directed by Ken Loach

ISA statement on the new Cold War and Ukraine War

Morocco: Earthquake and lack of infrastructure kills thousands

Rise up for bodily autonomy – International Safe Abortion Day 2023

Deliveroo workers face low pay, precarity and dangerous working conditions

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden