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.
Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder
By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan civilisation. But it doesn’t take an ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to predict the floods which have afflicted Ireland recently,
Epstein horror story: truth far stranger than fiction
By James McCabe “I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of any interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring. I think only really-bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.”
Government leaning into the far-right playbook on immigration
By Robert Cosgrave Describing the racist political climate of 1970s Britain, the Sri Lankan Tamil socialist A. Sivanandan commented that “what Enoch Powell [a Farage-type figure in Britain at the time] says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the
On ‘left alliances’ – the opposition, cooperation, and the next government
By Eddie McCabe In a world of demagogic “strongman” leaders like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, and spineless ones like Keir Starmer or Micháel Martin, having a left-wing President like Catherine Connolly is something to be thankful for. Indeed, many people around the
Rural and Urban Ireland united in the desire to ban fox hunting
By Enda Kelly A poll released in the run-up to Ruth Coppinger TD’s bill to ban the cruel practice of fox hunting found that 72% were in favour of a ban. This result breaks down as 76% in Dublin, 71% in Leinster,
Obituary: Ted Gannon (1955-2025)
By Emmett Farrell Fifty years after the Marxists organised around the Militant socialist paper began to develop a serious base in the labour and trade union movement, in Derry, Belfast, Dublin, Galway and Cork, that generation who looked to revolutionary socialism to
Courageous Palestine Action activists end hunger strike –free the Filton 24 now!
By Eva Martin We joined many others in breathing a massive sigh of relief and rejoicing at the news that Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed and Lewie Chiaramello decided to end their hunger strike in light of the decision by the government to
Abortion rights – time to abolish the three-day wait
By Laura Fitzgerald Call to action: Ruth Coppinger’s bill to abolish the three-day wait for abortion access, will be introduced at the first stage on Tuesday 20 January. This needs your action. Please contact TDs from all the parties that supported a
Shut down Grok – Elon Musk’s depraved AI tool
By Ollie Bell So-called ‘Generative Artificial Intelligence’ is the latest tech nightmare to be forced onto us by morally bankrupt tech billionaires. What AI ‘innovators’ promised was the elimination of repetitive tasks and enhancing productivity; what we got was a water-guzzling, art-stealing,
50 years after Kingsmill – lessons written in blood
Fifty years ago, on the evening of 5 January 1976, twelve workers were travelling home by minibus when they were stopped at Kingsmill, near Whitecross in south Armagh. They believed this was a security force checkpoint. In fact, the uniformed men who