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Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·Theory & History

Covid-19: Capitalist market & the PPE shortage

By Conor Burke Throughout the COVID-19 crisis workers in various essential services have gone beyond the call of duty to help the rest of us feel safe and secure, from supermarket staff to pharmacy workers to public transport personnel and others. Arguably,

Apr 5, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles

COVID-19: No attacks on democratic rights

By James McCabe Across the globe, governments are introducing sweeping curtailments of basic democratic rights in the name of tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. In some countries this has even led to the “temporary” dissolution of parliament. Many governments have thankfully, if belatedly,

Apr 5, 2020

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India and COVID-19: “Social distancing is a privilege”

By Ana Mitra On the 25 March 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a 21 day lockdown in India, leaving the nation of 1.3 billion people approximately four hours to prepare for it. This announcement resulted in the country queuing up

Apr 4, 2020

No cutting of Dublin Bus workers’ annual leave

By Michael O’Brien Dublin Bus management are steamrolling through their policy of enforced annual leave. I was given sight of a list of sixty drivers’ names that has been posted up on the wall in Harristown Garage yesterday, where they are being

Apr 4, 2020

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Nevada homelessness – a picture of US capitalism today

By Harper Cleves In the last weekend of March, images of a parking lot converted into a homeless shelter in Las Vegas, Nevada sparked outrage. The images of the make-shift shelter are stark and are illustrative of the grotesque inequalities that lie

Apr 2, 2020

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Coronavirus crisis – a socialist feminist view

By International Socialist Alternative (ISA) Women’s Bureau (ISA is the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is the Irish section of) The covid-19 crisis has hit the world hard. Health care workers, whose voices were never heard when they screamed

Apr 2, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Theory & History

Capitalism and the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919

By Keishia Taylor The 1918-1919 “Spanish Flu” killed between 50-100 million people, more than the number of deaths in the First and Second World Wars combined. According to expert Laura Spinney the Spanish flu “re-sculpted human populations more radically than anything since

Apr 1, 2020

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Housing crisis in a pandemic

By Andrea Murray Covid-19 has plunged the world into a situation of unparalleled uncertainty and anxiety, for none more so than those already suffering from the housing crisis. In January this year, there were officially 10,271 homeless people in Ireland. The number

Mar 31, 2020

Anti-war·Covid-19 Pandemic

Iran & Covid-19: Trump’s criminal sanctions amount to biological warfare

By Dean O’Donnell 2020 got off to an alarming start with the US government assasination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. An act of imperialist aggression and the result of escalating tensions between both states, it posed a direct threat of war in

Mar 30, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Workplace News

Workers cannot wait to safeguard their health – unions must act

By Mick Barry TD On Weds 25 March 1,000 workers at Moy Park Portadown walked off the job demanding proper health and safety protections for the workforce. The same day nearly 100 workers at a Larry Goodman meat plant – ABP in

Mar 30, 2020

COVID-19- Page 7

Covid-19: Capitalist market & the PPE shortage

COVID-19: No attacks on democratic rights

India and COVID-19: “Social distancing is a privilege”

No cutting of Dublin Bus workers’ annual leave

Nevada homelessness – a picture of US capitalism today

Coronavirus crisis – a socialist feminist view

Capitalism and the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919

Housing crisis in a pandemic

Iran & Covid-19: Trump’s criminal sanctions amount to biological warfare

Workers cannot wait to safeguard their health – unions must act

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden