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Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Criminal government inaction as Covid cases soar

Extended editorial from the upcoming issue of The Socialist The beginning of a new year is once again being dominated by an unprecedented, sharp spike in Covid cases. Both here in Ireland and globally, this new wave of the pandemic fuelled by

Jan 8, 2022

World News

Mass protests and strikes force resignation of Kazakhstan Government

By Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (our sister organisation in Russia) reporters Protests against price rises which started on 1 January in Mangystau, West Kazakhstan rapidly spread across the country with demonstrations now reported in Zhanaozen, Aktau, Aktobe, Taraz, Chimkent, Karaganda, Uralsk and the capital

Jan 6, 2022

News & Analysis

Minimum alcohol pricing: Attack on the poor & windfall to drinks industry

By Dan O’Rourke The government’s new pricing rules on low-cost alcohol took effect this week. The measure is a blunt instrument that will provide substantial profits to certain sectors of the drinks industry, while functioning as a vicious attack on poorer people.

Jan 6, 2022

Covid in schools is a workplace-safety scandal

By Caitríona Ní Chatháin, second level teacher in Limerick and TUI school steward (personal capacity) On the eve of 1 December, it was announced by the government that masks for children in third class upwards would become compulsory the following day. Both

Jan 5, 2022

Reviews and Culture·World News

Review: In The Camps by Darren Byler

By Per-Åke Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative Three hundred camps with more than a million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang are probably the most brutal expressions of the CCP dictatorship in China. In Darren Byler’s new book, In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony,

Jan 2, 2022

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Don’t Look Up directed by Adam McKay

By Manus Lenihan A comet is about to wipe out all life on Earth – this was the basic idea of not one but two Hollywood movies released in 1998. Deep Impact was considered more ‘realistic’ than Armageddon, but both were fantasies

Jan 1, 2022

Anti-racism·Theory & History

United States: The history of Critical Race Theory and the debate surrounding It

By Quinn Angelou-Lysaker, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Debates have broken out in workplaces and school board meetings across the country as the Republican Party fights to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) from the classroom. This debate is only

Dec 31, 2021

World News

Iran: Teachers’ strikes and protests show the way forward

By Nina Mo, a member of ISA in Austria On 23 December, a national day of action, tens of thousands of teachers and retired teachers — with women workers at the forefront — protested in over 100 cities in Iran, demanding higher

Dec 29, 2021

Environment·World News

Climate catastrophe demands a revolutionary struggle for democratic socialism

By Arne Johansson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna — ISA in Sweden The pitiful outcome of the Glasgow climate summit, COP26, has been greeted with anger and frustration by the world’s climate activists. Completely inadequate and ineffective market solutions mean a continued rapidly shrinking “carbon

Dec 28, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·World News

Capitalist world leaders are to blame for COVID nightmare

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in the US “Everyone has COVID.” If you live in New York, you’ve heard or seen someone say this in the last 24 hours. For the second day in a row, the state broke

Dec 27, 2021

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