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The Edinburgh terrorist attack and the dangers of the “Muslim Grooming Gangs” trope

By Varun Content Warning: Mentions Sexual Violence, Gun Violence, Racism, Misogyny, and Islamophobia from the Outset “I’ve told you time and time again, I am protecting the country from these fucking Muslim bastards, raping our young daughters, raping our kids. Enough is

Jul 10, 2026

End the model of state-subsidised, private profit childcare

By Caitríona Ní Chatháin Disgracefully, the Irish State currently spends a pitiful 0.1% of its GDP on childcare. Ireland is also an outlier among wealthier countries because childcare is exclusively private and largely for-profit with state subsidies. In spite of these subsidies

Jun 12, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

A brutal war of attrition – bloodshed in Ukraine continues

By Stephen Boyd Putin’s original war aim of a quick Ukrainian capitulation, with Russian troops being greeted as liberators in some areas, has been dealt a decisive blow. Failing to occupy Kyiv, Russian forces are now concentrated in the Donbas region. Fighting

Jun 9, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·What is Socialism?

It’s time to get rid of capitalism – time for socialism

By Manus Lenihan With climate change, war and disease, it’s easy to grow numb to all the bad news stories. But just when you think nothing can shock you, the world finds a way to twist the knife, for example with the

Jun 2, 2022

Oxfam’s ‘Profiting From Pain’ report: The best times” for billionaires

By James Fleming The coronavirus pandemic has been among “the best times in recorded history for the billionaire class”, according to Oxfam in their Profiting From Pain report. While increasing numbers of working class and poor people have been sacrificing meals, warmth,

May 31, 2022

Featured Articles·Uncategorized·World News

United States: Deadly mass shootings expose broken system

By Grace Fors, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) In ten days, two high-profile acts of mass slaughter have stunned millions and created unimaginable grief and fear. On May 14, an 18 year-old armed white supremacist targeted a grocery

May 30, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

War in Ukraine – a new drawn-out phase

The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on 9 May: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short victorious war in Ukraine. But it was not able to do so. It has

May 19, 2022

20 May: Day of international solidarity with Russian anti-War activists!

20 May: Day of international solidarity with Russian anti-war activists! Freedom for Dzhavid Mamedov and all anti-war activists! For international solidarity of the working class to stop the war! Tverskoi Court in Moscow has sentenced Dzhavid Mamedov, a socialist, anti-war activist, campaigner

May 17, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

NMH must be 100% public, secular & progressive

The resounding two-thirds majority vote in the 2018 repeal referendum vote was undeniably a vote for both abortion rights, and more generally for a progressive, secular Ireland. Building on the Marriage Equality vote that affirmed LGBTQ rights, it represented a watershed rejection

May 13, 2022

Economy·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Cost of living crisis: Trade unions have to act!

By Mick Barry TD “We are looking at three years of high inflation” – AIB Chief Economist Oliver Mangan, Irish Times, 9 March It is becoming increasingly clear that the inflation crisis is going to be around for quite some time. It

May 9, 2022

Featured Articles·Socialist Feminism·World News

Defend Roe V Wade – We won’t be dragged backwards! Abortion rights now!

Text of the Socialist Party leaflet for tomorrow’s protests called by ROSA-Socialist Feminist Movement against attempts to overturn the Roe V Wade in the United States and that are also demanding that we have secular and public National Maternity Hospital . A

May 6, 2022

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