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China’s heatwave “the most severe ever recorded in the world”

Hong Liuxing, chinaworker.info Temperatures have risen as high as 45C degrees. Extreme heat of over 40C has been recorded for more than 70 days in a row, affecting 900m people. New Scientist magazine declared it the “the most severe ever recorded in the

Sep 13, 2022

News & Analysis

The media-hyped case of bigot Enoch Burke

By Ollie Bell On 5 September, Enoch Burke was jailed for contempt of court. This was following an order by Judge Miriam O’Regan for his arrest last Friday, 2 Sept, after he had failed to show up to court for breaching an

Sep 10, 2022

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Workers deserve real cost of living pay rises!

Text of the Socialist Party leaflet on the public sector pay deal. The call was clear from workers across all the public service union conferences earlier this year – real cost of living pay rises was demanded to match the galloping rate

Sep 9, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Reject viral misogynist Andrew Tate and his toxic ideology

By Aislinn O’Keeffe Last month a number of social media corporations announced that they were banning the hateful lowlife Andrew Tate from their platforms. Of course, this hasn’t stopped videos of his content being uploaded across social media, particularly on TikTok, and

Sep 8, 2022

Campaigns & Issues·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Gender-based violence & language provision

A new multilingual service for victims of domestic abuse has been launched in Galway. Domestic Violence Response Galway offers services through English, French, Polish and Irish and this is certainly a welcome development. The needs of someone to be heard and to

Sep 8, 2022

News & Analysis

Student accommodation: Another year, another dire crisis

By Brandon Byrne The housing crisis has reached depressing new lows with the Department of Housing reporting at the end of August there was a record number 10,568 people living in emergency accommodation. This figure however does not account for the many

Sep 7, 2022

Chaos, crisis & catastrophe – capitalist decay in the 2020s

By Laura Fitzgerald It’s been dubbed the Age of Disorder. The 2020s and the present era of capitalism could also be described aptly and alliteratively as the Era of Chaos, Crisis and Catastrophe. Multifaceted crises of and for the system define the

Sep 6, 2022

Economy·News & Analysis

Budget 2023: Government token measures are an insult

By Mick Barry TD Tuesday, 27 September is Budget Day and hard pressed working-class people will be demanding action from the Government on the cost of living crisis.No sooner had people struggled to pay all the back to school costs than news

Sep 5, 2022

World News

Britain: Liz Truss appointed — Prepare for an Autumn of struggle

Editorial from Socialist Alternative, paper of our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland A storm is gathering in Britain. Determination to fight is rising among working-class people across all walks of life. And the capitalists are already afraid of the fury

Sep 5, 2022

World News

New cold war: What’s behind the Taiwan Strait crisis?

By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The chain of events sparked by Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on 2-3 August signals a further escalation of the Second Cold War – the imperialist power struggle between the US and China. Predictably, Pelosi’s trip brought forth

Sep 3, 2022

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