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Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Workplace News

Reverse P&O’s criminal mass sacking — Nationalise now to save jobs

By Chas Berry, member of Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) The brutality of capitalism was on show for all to see at the ports of Dover, Liverpool and Hull yesterday as ferry bosses P&O sacked all of

Mar 25, 2022

Theory & History

An Gorta Mór: The Legacy of the Irish Famine

This year marks 175 years since ‘Black 47’, the worst year of the devastating ‘Great Famine’ in Ireland. James McCabe reviews this tragic event and analyses its causes and lasting impact on Irish history. Every place is unique in its own way,

Mar 24, 2022

Anti-war·World News

Ukraine and China: Xi Jinping plays Russian Roulette

By Vincent Kolo, Chinaworker.info, ISA in China One who is not acquainted with the designs of his neighbours should not enter into alliances with them.” These are the words of legendary military strategist Sun Tzu more than 2,000 years ago. Xi Jinping

Mar 22, 2022

News & Analysis·The North

Regina Coeli staff dismissed: Bring the hostel into public ownership!

By Rebecca Jane McMonagle Employees of Regina Coeli House in West Belfast were dismissed on Friday, 25 February, just two days before their date of redundancy and seven weeks into their 24-7 work-in. The workers occupied the hostel in January following news

Mar 21, 2022

Reviews and Culture

Review: And Breathe Normally directed by Ísold Uggadóttir

Review by James Fleming Utility bills and notices are overflowing from an apartment’s postbox. “Mommy, we forgot to get our mail yesterday. And also the day before that.” So says six-year-old Eldar at the beginning of And Breathe Normally. Clearly, the child

Mar 20, 2022

News & Analysis·The North·Uncategorized

North: Stormont backs Thatcher’s anti-trade union laws

By Kevin Henry In the aftermath of the historic 1984/5 miners’ strike in Britain, Margaret Thatcher as part of her war against the trade union movement and working-class people introduced a series of measures to curtail the right to strike. These laws

Mar 19, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Case dismissed against Limerick socialist feminist activist

By Aislinn O’Keeffe In May 2021 I received a fine in the post from An Garda Síochana to the tune of €500. With this fine, Gardaí alleged that I was an ‘Event Organiser’ under the Covid emergency legislation put in place by

Mar 18, 2022

Into week four of Putin’s War

By Per Olsson, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (our sister organisation in Sweden) The Putin regime’s war against Ukraine has entered its fourth week, and the number of victims is growing. Despite repeated talks and a number of different attempts at mediation, the war has

Mar 17, 2022

News & Analysis·The North

North: Mounting evidence exposes “systemic” collusion

By Kevin Henry Martin O’Hagan was a journalist and trade unionist murdered in 2001. He was murdered for bravely writing, despite death threats, articles exposing of the loyalist paramilitaries, particularly the murderous sectarian gang known as the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). At

Mar 16, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

The misogyny of the Irish state – why the establishment parties are no allies of women

By Isidora Duran Stewart While the public response to the murders of Sabina Nessa, Sarah Everard, Ashling Murphy and more has been astronomical, the same questions are being posed: why are things getting worse and not better? Why have cases of gender-based

Mar 15, 2022

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