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 CWI & socialist feminism – redressing a checkered history
Laura Fitzgerald explores the evolution of the socialist feminist work of the Socialist Party and the international organisation to which we belong, including assessing the roots of an ignominious split away by a minority in a leadership position in 2019, on account
Back-to-school costs – another heavy burden for working-class people
By Conor Burke The cost of kids returning to school is weighing heavy on many parents, especially this year as the cost of living crisis intensifies the struggles that many parents face annually just to ensure their kids get an education. On
RFU must reverse its shameful decision to ban trans women athletes
By Aoife Coppinger On 10 August, the IRFU announced that it is changing its Gender Participation Policy, meaning that trans women will no longer be allowed to play contact rugby in the female category. This follows a decision by World Rugby in
Amazon’s regime of exploitation comes to Dublin: Unionise and organise now!
By Finn McKenna This week brings the arrival of multinational e-commerce giant Amazon to Baldonnell Business Park in Dublin. The opening of this facility has already been met with comment by the trade union movement in Ireland. This is an anti-worker company
Sabina Higgins runs afoul of establishment war-mongers
By Michael O’Brien A letter by Sabina Higgins, wife of President Higgins, to The Irish Times on 27 July, concerning the war in Ukraine, has been seized upon for attack by various Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians and other pro-capitalist establishment
Resisting the backlash & building the movement for LGBTQ liberation
There is a developing right-wing backlash against the rights of the LGBTQ community, particularly trans people, here in Ireland and globally. Conor Payne analyses this phenomena, and how homophobia and transphobia are bound up with the existence of capitalism. In April 2022,
A big win for abortion rights in Kansas
By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) In kicking abortion rights back to the states, the right hoped that they’d see a clear path to near-total abortion bans across the country. Well, the results this week in
Government’s emissions targets — another Green sell-out dressed up as progress
By Aedan Hamrock In late July the government announced what they claimed was an ‘ambitious’ set of commitments to seriously reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This comes in the face of an unprecedented summer heatwave in Europe that saw record
CEO pay hikes funded off our backs
By Conor Burke As the impact of the cost of living crisis continues to bite ordinary workers and families, news emerges that 18 CEOs in some of Ireland’s biggest companies took home an average of €3.46 million in pay last year alone.
Price-gouging energy companies should be nationalised!
By Robert Cosgrave A study from the ESRI in June reported that in the south of Ireland, up to 43% of all households are in energy poverty. When that report was heard in the Electric Ireland boardroom (whose parent company ESB made