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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

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Elsewhere directed by Michael Gallen

By Finn McKenna Elsewhere, the opera by Michael Gallen based around the Monaghan Soviet which ran in the Abbey Theatre (15-20 November), was somehow both unique and familiar. It was also surreal, absurd and a performance that this reviewer has no yardstick

Dec 2, 2021

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Dublin City Council gives more public land to private developers

By Michael O’Brien, former Dublin City Councillor The effective giveaway of the Dublin City Council-owned plot of land on the Oscar Traynor Road in Coolock is the latest episode of a saga that has been ongoing for seven years, ever since the

Nov 26, 2021

News & Analysis

Nurses & midwives deserve better: no more poverty wages & unbearable conditions

By Catherine Finnegan Despite being nearly two years into the pandemic that has put healthcare workers at huge risk, nurses and midwives continue to be cruelly underpaid and overworked. The latest surge of Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm the health service, but nurses

Nov 25, 2021

Anti-racism·News & Analysis

Cork students protest racism in school

By Brian McCarthy A large anti-racist protest was organised by school students at Glanmire Community College (GCC) in Cork on Friday, 12 November. The protest was about the fact that two students have been suspended for speaking out against racism. Many students

Nov 24, 2021

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No more data centres: stop kowtowing to the interests of Big Tech

By James McCabe The government has refused to rule out the possibility of electricity blackouts this winter. At a time of exponential rises in the price of electricity and gas for ordinary households, it has become apparent that data centres are creating

Nov 23, 2021

Socialist Feminism·World News

ISA statement on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

ISA’s International Women’s Bureau and ROSA International 2021 has been another year of struggle against sexism, LGBTQphobia and racism, including mass protests and strikes, inspiring examples of solidarity being built amongst workers of all genders. At the Mercedes plant in the Basque

Nov 22, 2021

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Inflation & the cost of living crisis: cut profits not pay!

By Harry Matthews As 2021 draws to close, it feels like we are lurching from one crisis to another. Perhaps it’s because we are. One year on from our first Christmas lockdown and our health system is on the brink with ICU

Nov 19, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis·The North

‘Blah, Blah Blah’ from Stormont on the climate crisis

“Blah, blah, blah” is how Greta Thunberg has described what we get from politicians across the world. This is strikingly seen at the COP26 climate conference where world leaders “lobbied” to water down reports which expose the urgency of the climate crisis.

Nov 17, 2021

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International socialists mobilise in Glasgow for COP26 protests

By Marie O’Toole, ISA COP26 organising team World leaders have been gathering in Glasgow these past two weeks for the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in order to give the global capitalist system a fresh coat of green paint. What was always

Nov 15, 2021

Environment·World News

Greenwashing at COP26

By Per Olsson, ISA Sweden The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is a “global greenwash festival and a failure”, said Greta Thunberg when she spoke at the “Fridays For Future” event in Glasgow on 5 November. That demonstration was followed the next

Nov 12, 2021

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