Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

United States: Trump indicted – what now?

By Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (ISA in US) Socialists certainly won’t shed tears if Trump sees the inside of a prison cell. Trump, along with other billionaires and presidents (from both parties), should be tried for his countless crimes against humanity. Trump

Apr 4, 2023

News & Analysis

Government disdain for migrant nurses is a scandal

By Mick Barry TD More than 300 Indian migrant workers attended a Zoom meeting organised by Migrant Nurses Ireland (MNI) and attended by myself and fellow Socialist Party public rep Ruth Coppinger on 28 March. Varghese Joy of MNI explained that the

Apr 1, 2023

Anti-racism·LGBTQ·Socialist Feminism·World News

Australia: Trans rights under attack – fight the far-right bigotry of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull

By David Elliott, International Socialist Alternative in Australia In Melbourne on the 18 March, people calling for trans rights protested the far-right speaker Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a.k.a. Posie Parker. Keen-Minshull has been on a speaking tour holding small rallies around Australia, campaigning against

Mar 31, 2023

News & Analysis·World News

Big Tech in turmoil: Why capitalism’s main engine of growth is stuttering

By Keishia Taylor and Eddie McCabe The tech sector is in turmoil – facing its worst crisis since the dot-com bubble burst in the late 1990s. Stock prices are fluctuating wildly, profits are being squeezed, and hundreds of thousands of workers have

Mar 29, 2023

World News

Hyper exploitation and profiteering – the reality of “fast fashion”

By Saana Taussi ’Fast-fashion’ is a form of clothing production which is based on releasing the highest number of clothing collections each year as possible, at the lowest price possible. This business model became popularised since the 1980s and practically all affordable, mass-producing

Mar 28, 2023

World News

General Strike against Netanyahu and far-right amid historic political crisis

By Shahar Ben Horin & Yasha Marmer, Socialist Struggle (our sister organisation in Israel/Palestine) Since the first week of January, Israeli capitalism has been gripped by an escalating historic political crisis, involving an unprecedented mass movement against the ‘judicial coup’, along with

Mar 27, 2023

Socialist Feminism·Uncategorized·World News

“Our Resistance is Not Made of Sand” – report from ROSA international conference

By Elin Gaufin, ISA International Women’s Bureau The first international ROSA conference Women Life Freedom took place on 18 and 19 March, 2023. 200 participants from 19 countries had gathered in the meeting room in Vienna and zoomed in from another 11

Mar 27, 2023

World News

French pension fight continues. Strike down Macron and austerity policies!

Leaflet by Alternative Socialiste Internationale (our sister organisation in France) Today, France has been on strike with massive demonstrations across the country. According to the CGT trade union there are 700,000 on the streets of Paris alone. In Marseille there are 300.000,

Mar 24, 2023

Socialist Feminism·World News

“Give us bread, but give us roses too” — Over 200 attend ROSA International Socialist Feminist Conference, Vienna

By Isidora Duran Stewart (ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement, Ireland) In the wake of International Women’s Day 2023 which saw women, queer people and their siblings in struggle in the labour movement take to the streets globally, over 200 socialist feminists from every

Mar 22, 2023

World News

SVB collapse detonates financial crisis

By Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank last week has opened up a significant financial crisis for U.S. capitalism which now appears to be spreading to Europe. It is too

Mar 21, 2023

Solidarity

United States: Trump indicted – what now?

Government disdain for migrant nurses is a scandal

Australia: Trans rights under attack – fight the far-right bigotry of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull

Big Tech in turmoil: Why capitalism’s main engine of growth is stuttering

Hyper exploitation and profiteering – the reality of “fast fashion”

General Strike against Netanyahu and far-right amid historic political crisis

“Our Resistance is Not Made of Sand” – report from ROSA international conference

French pension fight continues. Strike down Macron and austerity policies!

“Give us bread, but give us roses too” — Over 200 attend ROSA International Socialist Feminist Conference, Vienna

SVB collapse detonates financial crisis

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