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Dangerous precedent: Gardaí ban taxi drivers’ socially-distanced protest

By Brian McCarthy Gardaí have banned a taxi drivers’ protest which was planned for Thursday 29 April, using public health grounds as a pretext. This is despite the fact that the drivers would have remained in their cars, minimising any potential public

Apr 29, 2021

World News

Mass protests after Myanmar coup will be decisive

By James Clement from Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales & Scotland) and Geert Cool PSL/PSP (our sister organisation in Belgium) Support is growing for the ‘Civil Disobedience Campaign’ first launched by medical workers from over 80 hospitals in Myanmar.

Feb 11, 2021

Governments Seize On COVID-19 to Extend State Powers

By Stephen Boyd, International Socialist Alternative The Economist (3/28/2020) has described it as “the most dramatic extension of state powers since the second world war.” Across the globe governments have implemented draconian legislation akin to that of police states under the pretext

May 27, 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

Covid-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus crisis – Say no to attacks on democratic rights

By Mick Barry TD The Health (Preservation and Protection and Other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020 allows for the most drastic curtailments of civil liberties in the history of the State. The Bill gives the State powers to

Mar 20, 2020

Democratic rights

Dangerous precedent: Gardaí ban taxi drivers’ socially-distanced protest

Mass protests after Myanmar coup will be decisive

Governments Seize On COVID-19 to Extend State Powers

COVID-19: No attacks on democratic rights

Coronavirus crisis – Say no to attacks on democratic rights

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden