Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Environment·Featured Articles·World News

In hot water: The devastating impact of rising ocean temperatures

By Oisin Hill “The ocean is hotter than ever, what happens next?,” begins a news article published in May of this year by Nature, the world’s leading scientific journal. 2023 has seen the ocean’s surface temperature rise to its highest since records

Jul 25, 2023

Government attempts to drum up support for militarisation and war

By Jonathan Diebold There was much clutching of pearls in the Dáil over the last several months as Socialist Party TD Mick Barry challenged the government on their Consultative Forum on National Security. This four-day event replaced Micheál Martin’s proposed citizens’ assembly

Jul 24, 2023

World News

United States: Actors join writers on strike against greedy studios

By David Rhoades, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) On July 13, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), a union of 160,000 film and TV performers, joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA)

Jul 23, 2023

Water workers strike for guarantees over terms and conditions

By Robert Cosgrave In mid-July, over 100 local authority water workers in multiple councils organised in Unite took three days of strike action. The responsibility for this strike lies squarely at the hands of local authority management, who have refused to engage

Jul 17, 2023

LGBTQ·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Transphobia in Sport: Right-wing myths cover Up Chronic Underfunding

By Éveline and Koerian (ISA in Belgium) The right of transgender women to participate in sporting activities is being questioned. Last year, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) and World Rugby, among others, banned transgender women from participating in their competitions. Several U.S. states have

Jul 16, 2023

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Trans Healthcare – misinformation is an attack on our liberation

By Miranda Stewart As the capitalist system struggles for a stability that can never come, right-wing backlash against marginalised people has found momentum. Attacks on transgender and intersex people’s rights are part of that backlash. As with right-wing conspiratorial rhetoric about care

Jul 13, 2023

Reviews and Culture

Review: Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

Reviewed by Finn McKenna (spoiler warning) Ordinary Human Failings, the second novel by Irish author Megan Nolan, is a story that delves into the complex, at-times tragic, at-times remarkable, always-riveting journey of the Green family: fictional Irish immigrants coping and trying their

Jul 12, 2023

World News

Brazil: Battleground on Yanomami Territory

By Ana Vitória and Pedro Meade The Indigenous Territory (IT) of the Yanomami has been turned into a battle ground. The consequences of the genocidal policies of the Bolsonaro misgovernment have been devastating, placing the Yanomami in a situation of extreme violence,

Jul 8, 2023

RTÉ payments scandal: The corporate rot in the national broadcaster

By Mick Barry €345,000 in secret payments to Ryan Tubridy… €138,000 from the same slush fund for IRFU tickets for corporate clients… €111,000 for Rugby World Cup tickets for corporate clients… €26,000 for Champions League final tickets for corporate clients… €5,000 spent

Jul 7, 2023