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Class inequality & COVID-19

By Dean O’Donnell While responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have varied from country to country, one common thread to all is the near uniform refrain from governments, the mainstream media and the super-rich: ‘we are all in this together’. Yet as the

May 14, 2020

How can Debenhams jobs be saved?

Below is the text of a letter written by Socialist Party members Mick Barry TD and Ruth Coppinger to the the Liquidators in Debenhams and to Minister for Business, Enterprise & Innovation Heather Humphreys outlining how the jobs in the company can

May 13, 2020

United States–A Deadly Cocktail: COVID-19, Race and Capitalism

In early March, the first known cases of COVID-19 began to emerge in the United States. It has taken the lives of over 75,000 people across the nation. The deadly combination of COVID-19 and the economic recession has led to a deep

May 11, 2020

COVID-19: For-Profit care of the elderly exposed

By Andrea Murray Going into the COVID-19 crisis the priority for the government was to “flatten the curve” in the community to preserve critical care beds and avoid a surge which would put tremendous pressure on an underfunded, under-staffed and under-resourced health

May 11, 2020

Stop attack on Covid-19 payment

By Councillor Kieran Mahon The “Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment” was introduced in March in the face of the most abrupt wave of layoffs to ever hit workers in Ireland. March CSO figures put adjusted unemployment at 16.5%, from 4.8% in February amid

May 10, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Environment

Existential threat of climate change looms large

By Ben Samson While the world reels in the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the climate change crisis ominously looms in the background as an ever-developing existential threat. Both crises are of course interconnected, as the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 – the

May 10, 2020

Cancel Leaving Cert 2020 now! Listen to the students!

Statement from Mick Barry TD Leo Varadkar, Joe McHugh and the Department of Education display cold disregard for the opinions of 61,000 young people. Unmoved, they remain intent on bullying young people into sitting the Leaving Cert. This Dickensian meanness — even

May 3, 2020

May Day 2020: Capitalism is the Virus – Socialism is the Only Cure

Five Reasons To Fight for a Socialist World in 2020

Apr 30, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

Why Covid-19 is not the “great leveller”

By Robert Cosgrave The horrific Covid-19 crisis has graphically exposed the multiple inequalities and forms of oppression that lie at the heart of capitalism. Working-class people find themselves out of work and down on income. For those workers deemed essential, the same

Apr 28, 2020

Food dumping: Obscene waste at a time of mass want

By Ollie Bell The Covid-19 crisis is exposing the inherent weaknesses in the capitalist system. The privatisation of the healthcare system in Ireland and globally means that hospitals are underprepared to deal with this global pandemic. But what is also clear are

Apr 26, 2020

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