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Campaigns & Issues·Environment·Featured Articles·World News

Planet burns in record heatwave: Capitalist rulers throw fuel on the fire

By Jonathan Diebold Droughts, wildfires, 40-degree temperatures and thousands of directly related deaths: this is not the apocalyptic warning of future climate catastrophe, nor the latest disaster in a far flung corner of the globe, but the impact of the latest European

Jul 24, 2022

Reviews and Culture

Review: Derry Girls created by Lisa McGee

Derry GirlsCreated by Lisa McGeeChannel 4, 2022 Reviewed by Rebecca McMonagle Channel 4’s Derry Girls returned for its third and final season of post-ceasefire mischief and mayhem. For her final season Lisa McGee pulled no punches, cramming it jammed packed with what

Jul 23, 2022

World News

Sri Lanka: Ruling class manoeuvers intensify to thwart revolutionary uprising

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative By rising up onto their feet, the masses in Sri Lanka have awakened the imagination and courage of millions of workers and poor fighting against the effects of the capitalist crisis in South Asia and internationally.

Jul 20, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Workplace News

Follow the RMT example: Unions must take action to defend living standards

By Mick Barry TD The inflation crisis has sharply posed the question: how can the living standards of working-class people, the vast majority in society, be defended? Public opinion has put the Micheál Martin Government under pressure to deliver cost of living

Jul 20, 2022

News & Analysis

The Uber Files: the criminality & exploitation behind the app

By Manus Lenihan The hype around the ‘ride-sharing’ app Uber has always been shadowed by protests and scandals. But now the Uber Files, released by a whistleblower, have revealed that under the grand phrases about ‘the sharing economy’ there was rampant crime

Jul 19, 2022

World News

Workers’ struggle rises internationally as the cost of living crisis deteriorates

By Dan O’Rourke The cost of living crisis has struck the global working class. The speed and scale of the inflation crisis is almost unprecedented. Not since the 1970s have rising prices escalated this quickly in so many countries all at once.

Jul 19, 2022

As Gaeilge

Cogadh in Éadan an Bhoilséiveachais: An Cogadh Cathartha, 1922-23

Céad bliain ó shin an tseachtain seo a bhris Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann amach. Bhagair Príomhaire na Breataine “cogadh uafásach” muna síneofaí an Conradh Angla-Éireannach. Tháinig an “cogadh uafásach” céanna chugainn – ach éadach glas na hÉireann a bhí á chaitheamh ag

Jul 18, 2022

News & Analysis·The North·Uncategorized

Interview with Interface worker: “We put manners on this company”

Workers at Interface Europe, a flooring manufacturer based in Craigavon, have won a 15.25% pay increase after taking a week of effective strike action which shut down production at the site. Neil Moore, the Unite regional officer representing the workers and a

Jul 17, 2022

World News

Tory leadership race: Tax cuts, transphobia and divisions

By Tom Costello, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) No amount of culture wars or running off to Kiev was able to save Boris Johnson’s skin. After months of back-and-forth battles, Johnson finally took to the podium outside

Jul 14, 2022

World News

China: The deepest crisis for 30 years

By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info A succession of economic and political disasters is casting a dark cloud over Xi Jinping’s impending coronation as China’s dictator-for-life. Paralyzing “Zero COVID” lockdowns of major cities, collapsing GDP growth, record unemployment levels, and accelerating imperialist conflict in

Jul 13, 2022

Solidarity

Planet burns in record heatwave: Capitalist rulers throw fuel on the fire

Review: Derry Girls created by Lisa McGee

Sri Lanka: Ruling class manoeuvers intensify to thwart revolutionary uprising

Follow the RMT example: Unions must take action to defend living standards

The Uber Files: the criminality & exploitation behind the app

Workers’ struggle rises internationally as the cost of living crisis deteriorates

Cogadh in Éadan an Bhoilséiveachais: An Cogadh Cathartha, 1922-23

Interview with Interface worker: “We put manners on this company”

Tory leadership race: Tax cuts, transphobia and divisions

China: The deepest crisis for 30 years

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden