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.
No to Shannon Airport facilitating Israeli war crimes – trade unions must act!
By Stefanie Di Croce On 19 November, Taoiseach Leo Varadker asserted that the US military is not using Shannon Airport to supply munitions to the Israeli state’s assault on Gaza, “or any war for that matter”. His certainty is based on the
Workers solidarity against Gaza massacre
By Michael O’Brien The statement by five Belgian unions (ACV Puls, BTB, BGTK and ACV–Transcom) in the transport sector that their members will refuse to handle arms destined for the Israeli state to be used in its genocidal assault on Gaza is
A mouthpiece for genocide – expel the Israeli Ambassador
By Conor Payne Nearly 10,000 are estimated to have been killed in the Israeli state’s ongoing massacre against the people of Gaza, including 4,000 children. This number is rising all the time. The Israeli state bombs hospitals, refugee camps and ambulances; it
Library workers – why and how we should resist the far right
2023 will be remembered as the year bigots began lashing out at public libraries. There was a long-running campaign of harassment and threats in Cork City, along with incidents in other places. In August, a small group drove a rickety boat up
30 years on: The Shankill bomb and Greysteel massacre
By Kevin Henry October 23 is the 30th anniversary of Shankill Bombings. Ten people were killed: one of the IRA bombers, a UDA member and eight Protestant civilians, two of whom were children. The UDA in particular was responsible for a number
The nonsense of the ‘horseshoe theory’ – socialists are the only real, consistent opponents of the far right
By Conor Payne At the re-opening of the Dáil on 20 September, a far-right protest gathered outside, erecting a gallows with pictures of a number of both left and establishment political figures attached to it, and physically intimidating a number of TDs
Budget 2024: Capitalist inequality continues
By Mick Barry TD Working-class people will be worse off next year than we were in 2023. This government is shamefully prioritising the interests of big business and the super-rich over our needs. Despite all the government’s hype about the Budget, the
Housing: Main opposition parties offer no real alternative
By Jonathan Diebold The government’s Budget for 2024 was generally met with a yawn across the country. Aside from a few noteworthy items like the landlord tax credit, which raised eyebrows among economists and ordinary people alike, by and large it met
Temple Street scandal – cruelty of dysfunctional health system exposed
By Emma Quinn The initial review of CHI Temple Street has exposed: Most of us will have winced reading recent reports of spinal surgeries in Temple Street hospital. It is a parent’s worst nightmare to have to accept the fact that you
Rise up for bodily autonomy – International Safe Abortion Day 2023
By Isidora Duran Stewart , Rosa Socialist Feminist Movement organiser — article first published on rosainternational.org “Legal abortion – so as not to die!” – is what is printed across the symbolic green scarves worn by inspiring feminist activists organising all over