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Pilgrim strike: Support the strike and change the food industry

By Paddy Meehan Food workers at the Enniskillen-based Pilgrim Foods took all-out industrial action on 2 September 2026 to fight for a decent pay rise from a deeply profitable company. Workers took action after weeks of negotiating, and previous industrial action had

Sep 13, 2026

Record number on hospital trollies: Legacy of underfunding and austerity

By Donal Devlin 2023 opened with an all-too-familiar story of overcrowding in public hospitals across the state – only, this time, it’s worse. A record 931 and 838 people were lying on trollies, waiting on a hospital bed, on 3rd and 4th

Jan 5, 2023

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Struggle to free migrant fishers from exploitative visa achieves victory

The announcement yesterday by the Department of Justice that all Non-European migrant fishers enrolled in the now abolished Atypical Work Permit Scheme has been granted a stamp 4 giving them full labour market access is the culmination of a struggle waged by

Jan 4, 2023

News & Analysis·World News

Global Inflation Spiral: A capitalist crisis that requires a socialist response

No sooner had the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic receded than a new crisis emerged to take its place. Inflation is surging across much of the globe to levels not seen since the 1970s. The prices of goods and services are spiralling

Jan 3, 2023

Anti-racism·News & Analysis

The housing crisis and the hateful lies of the far right

By Steph Lacey The modus operandi of the far right is to jump on any kind of problem or issue in society and exploit it to push its nefarious agenda. The far right in Ireland is no exception. Far-right groups tried to

Dec 17, 2022

New Taoiseach, same disastrous right-wing policies

By Mick Barry TD Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking-Glass, published in 1871, featured the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee. According to Wikipedia, The Tweedle brothers “agree to have a battle, but never have one… Rather, they complement each other’s words, which led John

Dec 16, 2022

News & Analysis

The housing crisis is a capitalist crisis

By Caitriona Ni Chathain As we move into the winter months the housing crisis is dramatically worsening, with homelessness figures at an all-time high, up by almost 30% compared to this time last year. There are now 11,300 living in emergency accommodation,

Dec 14, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

North: Solidarity with NHS workers – strike together to save our NHS

For years health and social care workers have been treated with disdain by politicians in Westminster and Stormont. While they were happy to call health and social care workers “heroes” and clap on doorsteps during the pandemic, their actions revealed their real

Dec 12, 2022

News & Analysis·The North

North: Solidarity with NHS workers’ strike

By Eóin Dawson, NIPSA activist, health and social care worker (personal capacity) The Royal College of Nursing have announced two strike days in December, on the 15th and 20th. This follows health and social care workers in several unions voting overwhelmingly in

Dec 5, 2022

Environment·News & Analysis

What came from COP27? Hot air, fudges and meaningless agreements

By Ben Samond This year’s UN climate conference, COP27, ended just two days before the first football match kicked off in a World Cup so energy-intensive that its total emissions are set to equal those produced annually by the Democratic Republic of

Nov 30, 2022

East Wall protests: Unite and fight for a decent life for all

By Conor Payne Conditions for the working class and the poor in Ireland and internationally, as well as for the planet, are deteriorating at an alarming rate because we live in a capitalist system that is only interested in super profits for

Nov 28, 2022

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