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Qatar World Cup: Football has never been more political

By John Hird — NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing and International Socialist Alternative The oligarchs, dictatorships and dodgy billionaire owners of football clubs, through their well-oiled PR machines, say, ‘keep politics out of sport,’ but football has never been more political. Grassroots fan

Nov 21, 2022

World News

FIFA corruption and the Qatar World Cup

By Jonathan Diebold With an abysmal record on human rights this year’s FIFA World cup yet again takes place under the shadow of controversy. it’s taking place in Qatar, a small yet extremely wealthy country and one of the world’s last remaining

Nov 20, 2022

11,000 in emergency accommodation- Government housing policy in total shambles

By Peter McGregor THE HOUSING and homelessness crisis in Ireland is a defining legacy of the cycle of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil governments, and the various parties that have propped them up. Official statistics show there are nearly 11,000 homeless people

Nov 19, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

North: Sectarian tensions & cost of living crisis – workers’ movement must act urgently

Statement by the Socialist Party Amidst the cost-of-living crisis that has already led to 76% of people in Northern Ireland living in fuel poverty and significant workplace struggles for higher wages, the Stormont crisis is intensifying. Establishment politicians here and their counterparts

Nov 17, 2022

World News

Iran: Fighting for a revolutionary alternative to the clerical regime

This and other texts have been discussed and written together with activists on the ground and has been translated for distribution within Iran. International Socialist Alternative (ISA–the international movement we are part of) is committed to building the international solidarity movement, not

Nov 16, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Vicky Phelan – a symbol and inspiration in the fight against misogyny & injustice

By Ruth Coppinger A figure like the late Vicky Phelan and the incredible impact she came to have throughout society probably happens only once in a generation. An ordinary person who became a victim of a state and corporate medical scandal, Vicky

Nov 15, 2022

World News

US Midterm Elections: Polarized Midterms pave way for deeper crisis

By Calvin Priest, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Forecasts of a midterm “red wave” for the Republican Party failed to land on Tuesday, and instead a divided outcome was driven by growing levels of polarization in U.S. politics.

Nov 13, 2022

World News

Economic turmoil means the era of cheap money is at an end

By Donal Devlin In the last number of weeks job losses and hiring freezes have been announced across the Big Tech sector. Meta, Twitter and Stripe, to name just three, have axed thousands of jobs – an enormous blow to the workers

Nov 12, 2022

World News

9 November: General Strike in Belgium–Reports from Belgian socialists

The following leaflet that the members of LSP/PSL distributed on the picket lines and actions was well received with a lot of discussion on the need for nationalisation of the entire energy sector, but also on how to move forward to build

Nov 11, 2022

Environment·News & Analysis

COP 27: Capitalism wants profits before a livable planet

By Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in Canada) The deadly, and frightening, impacts of mounting climate change are clear for all to see. At the same time, the oil companies are making record profits and releases of carbon dioxide (CO2)

Nov 9, 2022

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Qatar World Cup: Football has never been more political

FIFA corruption and the Qatar World Cup

11,000 in emergency accommodation- Government housing policy in total shambles

North: Sectarian tensions & cost of living crisis – workers’ movement must act urgently

Iran: Fighting for a revolutionary alternative to the clerical regime

Vicky Phelan – a symbol and inspiration in the fight against misogyny & injustice

US Midterm Elections: Polarized Midterms pave way for deeper crisis

Economic turmoil means the era of cheap money is at an end

9 November: General Strike in Belgium–Reports from Belgian socialists

COP 27: Capitalism wants profits before a livable planet

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden