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Solidarity with Tara Mines workers’ blockade — nationalise the zinc mine!

By Donal Devlin At the time of writing, over 650 Tara Mines workers outside Navan, Co. Meath are blockading their workplace defiantly defending their jobs and livelihoods. They are members of SIPTU, Connect and Unite trade unions. These jobs have been in

Jul 6, 2023

France: Justice Pour Nahel — It was murder, yet again!

Statement by International Socialist Alternative — our sister organisation in France Let’s turn our anger into a mass movement in our neighbourhoods and workplaces! The racist murder of young Nahel by a police officer in Nanterre (economically deprived suburb of Paris) on

Jul 5, 2023

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

A deeply misleading narrative: Answering the claims of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism

Cedric Robinson’s book Black Marxism has influenced a wide layer of academics and activists. But as the review by Steve Edwards explains, the title is misleading. It is in reality an attack on Marxism. Robinson raises a number of arguments which are false and need to

Jul 5, 2023

Anti-racism·Reviews and Culture

Review: My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden

Review: My Fourth Time, We Drowned By Sally HaydenFourth Estate, 2022 Reviewed by Michael O’Brien For the recording of testimony alone, from migrants from sub-Saharan Africa about the hardships they endured attempting to come to Europe for a better life, this book and

Jul 3, 2023

Environment·World News

Environment: War causes untold damage to the environment

By Walter Chambers, International Socialist Alternative The immediate and horrific humanitarian costs of the war in Ukraine are measured in the number of fatalities and wounded caused by the fighting and continuous bomb attacks on Ukraine’s cities, as well as in the

Jul 2, 2023

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Iceland workers frozen out by bosses occupy Talbot Street store

By Drew Freyne Staff at the Iceland Store on Talbot Street, Dublin, have been occupying the shop since Monday evening in a dispute over unpaid wages. Iceland, owned by Metron Stores Limited, has debts of €36 million and was declared insolvent last

Jun 28, 2023

Queer Lives under attack – Resist the right wing backlash this Pride

Last month, a video of a horrific attack on a 14 year-old gay student in Navan by a group of students was posted on social media. The victim was hospitalised and suffered severe facial injuries. The video resulted in the arrest of

Jun 24, 2023

Anti-racism·World News

Missing in the Mediterranean – refugees & the racist policies of Fortress Europe

By Jonathan Diebold Vast resources were expended in the Atlantic in the wake of the disappearance of five wealthy tourists whose submersible vanished on the way to the Titanic, dominating headlines over days, while over a hundred times as many are still

Jun 24, 2023

Featured Articles·Socialist Feminism·Theory & History

“A Pillar of Strength” – Anti-oppression struggles and the revolutionary process

Reflections on Marxism and Oppression By Laura Fitzgerald “We must lead the struggle of the politically oppressed and unfree female sex into the broad course of proletarian liberation, just as we do that of oppressed peoples and nationalities. The demand for women

Jun 22, 2023

Anti-racism·News & Analysis

Government policies a boon to the repulsive & dangerous agenda of the far right

By James McCabe No fewer than 125 anti-refugee protests have occurred in Dublin alone this year. Asylum seekers in Clare have been subject to organised intimidation, while a proposed refugee centre in Donegal was set on fire. Far-right groups are ratcheting up

Jun 21, 2023

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