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Resisting the backlash & building the movement for LGBTQ liberation

There is a developing right-wing backlash against the rights of the LGBTQ community, particularly trans people, here in Ireland and globally. Conor Payne analyses this phenomena, and how homophobia and transphobia are bound up with the existence of capitalism. In April 2022,

Aug 8, 2022

Reviews and Culture

Review: An Cailín Ciúin directed by Colm Bairéad

An Cailín CiúinDirected by Colm BairéadInscéal / Fís Éireann TG4, 2021 Reviewed by Eóin Dawson When An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] went up against Oscar winner, Belfast, at the Irish Film and Television Academy awards, many assumed the €1.2m budget Irish

Aug 7, 2022

Socialist Feminism·World News

A big win for abortion rights in Kansas

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) In kicking abortion rights back to the states, the right hoped that they’d see a clear path to near-total abortion bans across the country. Well, the results this week in

Aug 6, 2022

Environment·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Government’s emissions targets — another Green sell-out dressed up as progress

By Aedan Hamrock In late July the government announced what they claimed was an ‘ambitious’ set of commitments to seriously reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This comes in the face of an unprecedented summer heatwave in Europe that saw record

Aug 4, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·Uncategorized·World News

War and its consequences: Five months after the invasion of Ukraine

Editorial statement from issue 8 of Socialist World, the theoretical journal of the International Socialist Alternative War in Ukraine is now entering its six month. Entire cities such as Mariupol and Severodonetsk have been annihilated. Thousands of civilians and tens of thousands

Aug 4, 2022

News & Analysis

CEO pay hikes funded off our backs

By Conor Burke As the impact of the cost of living crisis continues to bite ordinary workers and families, news emerges that 18 CEOs in some of Ireland’s biggest companies took home an average of €3.46 million in pay last year alone.

Aug 2, 2022

World News

ISA world school 2022: Mass revolts against morbid capitalism

By Per Ake Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative The world is experiencing turbulent events, coming at break-kneck speed — economic and political crises, wars and mass uprisings. This was how Sonja Grusch summarized present global processes in her introduction to the opening plenary

Aug 2, 2022

Economy·News & Analysis

Price-gouging energy companies should be nationalised!

By Robert Cosgrave A study from the ESRI in June reported that in the south of Ireland, up to 43% of all households are in energy poverty. When that report was heard in the Electric Ireland boardroom (whose parent company ESB made

Jul 28, 2022

World News

Britain: Neither Truss nor Sunak! Build a movement to bring down the Tories

By Kevin Henry The leadership election in the Tories has now come down to Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss. Workers and young people happy to see the back of Johnson will look on in dismay at the options left to be prime

Jul 27, 2022

News & Analysis

Government plans to lease housing from private market again, despite warnings

By Dan O’Rourke A recent report by corporate consultancy firm EY Economic Advisory for Euroconstruct has warned that the government is set to fall short of housing targets. The report also highlights that a key reason for the failure is the government’s

Jul 26, 2022

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