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Environment·Featured Articles·World News

El Niño adds fuel to the fire of climate catastrophe

By Isidora Durán Not a year goes by without climate scientists predicting record-breaking summer temperatures, and 2026 is no exception. Greenhouse gases are gradually warming the Earth towards catastrophic tipping points, but it is the sudden climate events intensified by this warming

Jun 8, 2026

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

‘Not One More’ – 30 women murdered in the North since 2020

By Harper Cleves CW: femicide, violence against women, misogyny, racism, queerphobia “Violence against women and girls is the shame of our society and we must do everything in our power to end it.” These were the words of Declan McNally outside of

Apr 17, 2026

Fuel protests threatened with army – No repression against the right to protest

By Finghín Kelly As the protest by hauliers, agricultural contractors, and some farmers against fuel price increases reaches its third day, the government has announced it will use the army to break up demonstrations. This is a massive escalation by the government,

Apr 9, 2026

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

Iran war: Strategic shambles exposes criminal US imperialism to the world

By Peter O’Shea As the clock ticked closer to 8 pm EST on Tuesday evening, the world held its breath. Trump has given no shortage of shocking statements since the beginning of this brutal war, but promising that “a whole civilization will

Apr 8, 2026

Imperialist war threatens skyrocketing prices and economic chaos

By Donal Devlin “All roads lead to higher prices and slower growth.” This was the stark warning by the IMF this week. Not only has the US and Israel’s war on Iran brought further death and destruction to the people of West

Apr 4, 2026

A shameful desecration: No building over Bessborough Mother and Baby Home

By Marie Claire Jennequin The decision to grant planning permission for a 140-unit apartment development on the grounds of the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork represents a profound moral and political failure. It isn’t just a question of housing

Mar 22, 2026

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Looksmaxxing, Mogging & the Sexual Market Place: the latest far-right manosphere subculture

By Harper Cleves CW: misogyny, racism, self-harm, body dysmorphiaThe year 2026 has been ‘epic’ in the most disastrous and devastating of ways: ongoing genocide in Palestine; the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro; a release of millions of pages of the Epstein

Mar 12, 2026

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

The bloody inferno in Iran: No to this imperialist war for power and profit

By Bob S. We are on day 11 of Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war on Iran, and already the human and environmental toll of this colonial adventure is piling up with devastating consequences. What are the aims and justifications for the attack? For

Mar 10, 2026

Statement on campaigning as ‘Solidarity – the socialist alternative’

From March 2026, the Socialist Party will be campaigning as Solidarity – the socialist alternative. Our social media presence, website, publications and banners on demonstrations will reflect this. In this era of genocidal, ecocidal capitalism, and the fascist threat emanating from the

Mar 7, 2026

Featured Articles·Latest·News & Analysis·Palestine solidarity

FAI confirms Ireland-Israel match to go ahead – but fans demand a boycott!

By Matt Waine The FAI confirmed today that the Ireland-Israel match will go ahead in the Aviva stadium, in a complete insult to the Palestinian people and amid correct, widespread opposition and calls for a boycott. According to media sources, this move

Feb 25, 2026

Hands off SNAs – for an appropriate school place & support for every child

Text of Socialist Party leaflet Over 200 schools across the country received notice that they faced reductions in their Special Needs Assistants (SNA) staff. Some were to lose half their SNAs! Euphemisms abounded as the government tried to justify this very unpopular

Feb 25, 2026

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