Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

North: Unite Hospitality and Rosa call for an end to harassment in hospitality

By Saana Taussi, Hospitality worker A recent survey by Unite showed that 90% of hospitality workers experience sexual harassment during work. To workers in hospitality, this hardly comes as a surprise, as the industry is notorious for poor working conditions. The prevalence

May 14, 2023

News & Analysis

Make International Nurses Day a day of struggle

By Roise McCann The 12 May is International Nurses Day. It is taking place in the same year that health workers across the UK were at the fore of a wave of industrial action taken to demand inflation-busting pay rises, safe staffing,

May 11, 2023

World News

Writers’ strike takes on exploitation-on-demand

By David Rhoades, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) “Writers are an essential part of creating content that our audiences enjoy, really across all platforms,” said Paramount CEO Bob Bakish to investors while boasting about their 60 million streaming

May 10, 2023

News & Analysis

Firefighters in Cork take industrial action for proper and safe staffing levels

By Mikey Rose For over two weeks Cork City’s firefighters have taken limited industrial action and protested outside the city’s fire brigade headquarters for half an hour each day. This action is being taken to demand the recruitment of additional personnel to

May 10, 2023

Theory & History

What does ChatGPT mean for workers?

By Tony Gong, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) The launch of ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm and sparked an investor frenzy for similar AI tools. The news claims ChatGPT can replace coders, paralegals, and even teachers. ChatGPT has

May 9, 2023

Uncategorized·World News

France: Macron intensifies class war

By Nicolas Croes — LSP/PSL (Left Socialist Party–our sister organisation in Belgium) This May Day will be the 13th day of strikes and demonstrations called by the union coalition against Macron and his pension reform. Whether it will represent a major escalation

May 5, 2023

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

The Women of Honour – #MilitaryMeToo

By Martina Stafford …promotions unfairly denied, careers interrupted by discrimination, unfair treatment after maternity leave.. bullying, sexual harassment, sexual assault and the depression, bulimia, self-harm and suicide attempts that followed (RTE Radio Documentary, 2021) ‘Women of Honour’ (WoH) is a group of

May 4, 2023

Reviews and Culture

Review: Pray for Our Sinners directed by Sinéad O’Shea

Reviewed by Aislinn O’ Keeffe ‘God’, for the better part of the 20th century, was omnipresent in Ireland. Claimed to be manifest in the institution of the Catholic Church, its noxious tendrils twined around the home, school, hospitals, the Gardaí, workplaces and

May 3, 2023

News & Analysis

Mask mandate lifting in hospitals will put our collective health at risk

By Miranda Stewart On 19 April, the universal mask mandate in healthcare facilities in Ireland was brought to an end. It is now only mandatory in cases of known respiratory transmissible illness, specifically for that patient and those working with them. That

May 2, 2023

World News

May Day 2023- For an international socialist alternative to capitalist permacrisis

Statement from International Socialist Alternative, the international movement to which the Socialist Party is affiliated The working class is back. Since May Day 2022, there has been an important upturn in the activity of the multiracial, multi-gendered and multigenerational workers’ movement. It

May 2, 2023

Solidarity

North: Unite Hospitality and Rosa call for an end to harassment in hospitality

Make International Nurses Day a day of struggle

Writers’ strike takes on exploitation-on-demand

Firefighters in Cork take industrial action for proper and safe staffing levels

What does ChatGPT mean for workers?

France: Macron intensifies class war

The Women of Honour – #MilitaryMeToo

Review: Pray for Our Sinners directed by Sinéad O’Shea

Mask mandate lifting in hospitals will put our collective health at risk

May Day 2023- For an international socialist alternative to capitalist permacrisis

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden