Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Record number on hospital trollies: Legacy of underfunding and austerity

By Donal Devlin 2023 opened with an all-too-familiar story of overcrowding in public hospitals across the state – only, this time, it’s worse. A record 931 and 838 people were lying on trollies, waiting on a hospital bed, on 3rd and 4th

Jan 5, 2023

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Struggle to free migrant fishers from exploitative visa achieves victory

The announcement yesterday by the Department of Justice that all Non-European migrant fishers enrolled in the now abolished Atypical Work Permit Scheme has been granted a stamp 4 giving them full labour market access is the culmination of a struggle waged by

Jan 4, 2023

News & Analysis·World News

Global Inflation Spiral: A capitalist crisis that requires a socialist response

No sooner had the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic receded than a new crisis emerged to take its place. Inflation is surging across much of the globe to levels not seen since the 1970s. The prices of goods and services are spiralling

Jan 3, 2023

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Doesn’t capitalism incentivise hard work because people are motivated by money?

By Eddie McCabe The worldview of every mainstream economist and right-wing politician is predicated on the belief that people are motivated primarily by money, and therefore to them an economy that’s not based on profit-making is inconceivable. Of course, in a capitalist

Jan 3, 2023

Theory & History

Revolutionary history: 100 years ago: Foundation of the USSR

By International Socialist Alternative, the international movement which the Socialist Party in Ireland is part of 30 December 1922 marked the opening of the First All-Union Congress of Soviets in the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre. On the same day, representatives of the then

Jan 2, 2023

Theory & History

Global economy in crisis: Just-in-time – for chaos

By Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in Canada Just-in-time production was a key part of the process of neoliberalism and globalization, as part of the drive to maximize profits. First used in Japan in the 1970s, it spread around the

Jan 2, 2023

Theory & History

50th anniversary of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”

By Tony Wilsdon, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a fundamental work that should be required reading for all socialists and those seeking to understand underdevelopment in countries today when inequality between rich and poor

Dec 27, 2022

Anti-war·World News

War in Ukraine: 10 Months of war that shook the world

Christmas Eve, 24 December, marks 10 months since Putin’s Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. For the people of Ukraine, it has meant hell on earth, currently a dark, cold winter with constant missile attacks. There is no sign that the fighting

Dec 22, 2022

World News

The collapse of Xi Jinping’s zero COVID policy

By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info In response to a wave of anti-government protests in late November the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has pivoted abruptly from its deeply unpopular Zero COVID regime. But for the Chinese masses this is a case of out of the

Dec 21, 2022

World News

Struggle for Kurdistan- New war looming on Rojava

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative (the international movement that the Socialist Party is a part of) A new major land operation by the Turkish army against Rojava —the de facto autonomous and predominantly Kurdish region of northern Syria— might be imminent.

Dec 19, 2022

Solidarity

Record number on hospital trollies: Legacy of underfunding and austerity

Struggle to free migrant fishers from exploitative visa achieves victory

Global Inflation Spiral: A capitalist crisis that requires a socialist response

Socialism 101: Doesn’t capitalism incentivise hard work because people are motivated by money?

Revolutionary history: 100 years ago: Foundation of the USSR

Global economy in crisis: Just-in-time – for chaos

50th anniversary of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”

War in Ukraine: 10 Months of war that shook the world

The collapse of Xi Jinping’s zero COVID policy

Struggle for Kurdistan- New war looming on Rojava

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