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.
Make International Nurses Day a day of struggle
By Roise McCann The 12 May is International Nurses Day. It is taking place in the same year that health workers across the UK were at the fore of a wave of industrial action taken to demand inflation-busting pay rises, safe staffing,
Firefighters in Cork take industrial action for proper and safe staffing levels
By Mikey Rose For over two weeks Cork City’s firefighters have taken limited industrial action and protested outside the city’s fire brigade headquarters for half an hour each day. This action is being taken to demand the recruitment of additional personnel to
The Women of Honour – #MilitaryMeToo
By Martina Stafford …promotions unfairly denied, careers interrupted by discrimination, unfair treatment after maternity leave.. bullying, sexual harassment, sexual assault and the depression, bulimia, self-harm and suicide attempts that followed (RTE Radio Documentary, 2021) ‘Women of Honour’ (WoH) is a group of
Mask mandate lifting in hospitals will put our collective health at risk
By Miranda Stewart On 19 April, the universal mask mandate in healthcare facilities in Ireland was brought to an end. It is now only mandatory in cases of known respiratory transmissible illness, specifically for that patient and those working with them. That
Glitz, Glam & Violent Misogyny: The toxic ideology of the Manosphere
The toxic ideas of Andrew Tate have gained enormous traction via various social media and online platforms – collectively known as the ‘manosphere’ – in the last year. In this article, Harper Cleves analyses Tate’s ideas and why they are intimately linked
Irish economy: Corporate tax windfalls and chronic inequality
By Donal Devlin This week, two stories emerged about the Irish economy, or more accurately, about who is making a killing and who is struggling to make ends meet. A report carried out by the ESRI found that real wages for workers
Why we shouldn’t feel sorry for the small landlord
By Robert Cosgrave Nearly a decade on the housing crisis continues with no end in sight under the policies of successive Fine Gael / Fianna Fáil governments. In fact the government is intent on creating an even worse crisis with its lifting
“Give the goss on your boss” – Hospitality workers get organised in Belfast
By Laurence Plunkett On Monday the 17th of April, Unite Hospitality NI held an open meeting in the Sunflower bar titled “Give the goss on your boss”. A packed room of waiters, bartenders, baristas and fast-food workers shared their war stories of
Housing crisis, low pay and lack of security fuels teacher retention crisis
By Caitríona Ní Chatháin In the second week of the Easter Holidays, the three Teacher Trade Union Congresses took place in cities across the country. I attended the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) congress which took place in Cork City as a
Review: Marx in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito
Review: Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism By Kohei SaitoCambridge University Press, 2023 Reviewed by Chris Stewart A new book by Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito has been an unlikely bestseller in Japan, selling more than half a million copies