Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

RTE scandal: The murky world of slush funds and barter accounts

By Padraig O’Flynn Yet another report (the fifth, at last count) sparked by recent scandals at RTÉ was published recently. It’s an interim report, with a more extensive version to follow in a month or so, along with an expected price tag

Sep 6, 2023

News & Analysis

Defend libraries from far-right thuggery and intimidation

By Steph Lacey Over the last few months, far-right agitators have been going into libraries and bookshops across Ireland and harassing the workers over what they claim are ‘pornographic’ books being forced on children. In reality, these books are sex education guides

Sep 4, 2023

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

#ContigoJenni Give misogyny and the anti feminist backlash the red card

By Myriam Poizat On 20 August, social media was flooded with the Women’s World Cup. It should have been with the brilliant victory of the Spanish football team (La Roja) in the final. Instead, depicted everywhere was the image of Luis Rubiales

Sep 1, 2023

Theory & History

Germany 1923: Lessons of the Lost Revolution

By Robert Cosgrave One hundred years ago Germany faced one of the deepest crises ever experienced in the advanced industrial world. The future of capitalist rule in Germany was seriously in doubt. The working-class movement, and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)

Aug 31, 2023

Anti-war·World News

New Cold War: US Cold War interests trump rights of Ukraine

U.S. Secretly Prepares to Accept Russian Annexation of Ukrainian Regions By Walter Chambers, International Socialist Alternative As a further stage in the New Cold War opens up with the threat of new war in Africa after the coup in Niger, new information

Aug 31, 2023

Reviews and Culture

Review: Is this Barbie (socialist) feminist?

By Celina Brandstötter, Sarah Moayeri, Roberta F. The blockbuster Barbie film currently showing in theatres breaks numerous records at the box office and is hotly debated everywhere. It earned $1 billion after just 17 days, making Greta Gerwig the first woman solo

Aug 30, 2023

Theory & History

The groundbreaking struggle for free healthcare for all: 75 years since the founding of the NHS

The following article was first published in issue #18 of Socialist Alternative, the theoretical magazine of Socialist Party. The decimation of the NHS by successive government in Britain has been a major political issue in recent years. The NHS is not what it once

Aug 28, 2023

Reviews and Culture

“Rich Men North of Richmond” punches down

By Manus Lenihan A viral folk song called ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ by Oliver Anthony has risen to the top of the US charts, even featuring during the Republican Party debates this week. On its surface, the song poses as an

Aug 25, 2023

The North·Theory & History

25 years on: Has the Good Friday Agreement delivered?

The following article was first published in issue #18 of Socialist Alternative, the theoretical magazine of Socialist Party. In the previous issue of this journal we republished an article by Peter Hadden originally published in May 1998 entitled ‘Will the Agreement Bring Peace?’ Here,

Aug 25, 2023

Reviews and Culture

Review: Not on Our Watch

By Isidora Durán Stewart Every struggle against the system leaves a mark in the memory of the working class and oppressed in society. It serves as a reminder to all who suffer under capitalism that it hasn’t always been this way, it

Aug 24, 2023

Solidarity

RTE scandal: The murky world of slush funds and barter accounts

Defend libraries from far-right thuggery and intimidation

#ContigoJenni Give misogyny and the anti feminist backlash the red card

Germany 1923: Lessons of the Lost Revolution

New Cold War: US Cold War interests trump rights of Ukraine

Review: Is this Barbie (socialist) feminist?

The groundbreaking struggle for free healthcare for all: 75 years since the founding of the NHS

“Rich Men North of Richmond” punches down

25 years on: Has the Good Friday Agreement delivered?

Review: Not on Our Watch

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden