Public sector strike – a premature suspension, but the fight isn’t over
Solidarity TD, Ruth Coppinger and Solidarity Councillor, Kate Relihan on the picket lines in Dublin 15.
The €13 billion question- Government support Apple’s tax dodging
Seize the €13 billion- Invest in homes, jobs and public services
A New Feminist Wave?
Why we need an anti-capitalist & socialist women’s movement
How the protest movement & boycott forced the suspension of water charges
The Fine Gael minority government was forced to suspend water charges. Michael O’Brien argues that this is a result of the protest movement that emerged in late 2014, the subsequent mass boycott of the charge and the fundamental weakness of this right-wing
Brexit vote is their crisis – workers’ rights must not be sacrificed
Never ones to waste a good crisis IBEC were quickly out of the traps after the Brexit vote claiming that the ensuing political and economic turmoil meant that bosses in Ireland needed support and in turn workers’ rights must come under the
#JobstownNotGuilty trial: Criminalising protest must be resisted
The clock continues to tick down towards the biggest political trial in decades. In April 2017, the first trial of adults for the false imprisonment of Joan Burton and her assistant will commence in the Criminal Courts of Justice. In advance of
Non-payment of water bills rises to 73% – abolish the charges now
Remember when a majority of people, by maintaining a boycott, put water charges on the agenda at the last election and 70% of the electorate voted for TDs opposed to the charge?
Britain: Chilcot’s damning findings on Iraq war
The 2.6 million-word Chilcot report in essence acknowledges that the devastating war on Iraq and occupation was a completely unjustifiable act of military aggression, by making it clear that it was not necessary. Families of the UK army personnel who died or
Ireland, Brexit and why the EU must be opposed
The 52% vote in favour of Brexit is historic and has already had profound political and economic ramifications.sage a living forThe 52% vote in favour of Brexit is historic and has already had profound political and economic ramifications. Since the morning of
Pride 2016: Solidarity against homophobia and transphobia
Text of Socialist Party Pride 2016 leaflet
Brexit: Reject this club of bosses & bankers
On Friday 23 June a referendum will take place on Britain and the North’s membership of the European Union. Kevin Henry answers the questions many working class people have about the consequences of breaking from the EU.