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Environment·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Government’s emissions targets — another Green sell-out dressed up as progress

By Aedan Hamrock In late July the government announced what they claimed was an ‘ambitious’ set of commitments to seriously reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This comes in the face of an unprecedented summer heatwave in Europe that saw record

Aug 4, 2022

News & Analysis

115 deaths in homelessness: A shameful indictment of the Government

By Finn McKenna The tragic news of 115 deaths of homeless people in the last year is another serious indictment of this government, which seems increasingly indifferent to the crisis. The data, released as part of a Freedom of Information request, is

May 1, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

The misogyny of the Irish state – why the establishment parties are no allies of women

By Isidora Duran Stewart While the public response to the murders of Sabina Nessa, Sarah Everard, Ashling Murphy and more has been astronomical, the same questions are being posed: why are things getting worse and not better? Why have cases of gender-based

Mar 15, 2022

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Criminal government inaction as Covid cases soar

Extended editorial from the upcoming issue of The Socialist The beginning of a new year is once again being dominated by an unprecedented, sharp spike in Covid cases. Both here in Ireland and globally, this new wave of the pandemic fuelled by

Jan 8, 2022

News & Analysis

Dublin Bay South by-election: Humiliating vote deepens Fianna Fáil crisis

By Colm McCarthy For the Government, the loss of Fine Gael’s seat in Dublin Bay South to Ivana Bacik of the Labour Party was a notable defeat. Fine Gael hoped the party and government would gain a bounce in the polls because

Jul 12, 2021

News & Analysis

Mica scandal: profiteering creates housing disaster

By Mick Barry TD More than 3,000 householders from Donegal, Mayo and Clare travelled to Dublin on 15 June to demand a proper compensation scheme for their homes destroyed by mica. Mica is a mineral that can be contained in concrete blocks

Jun 16, 2021

Cancel the Leaving Cert: Fight for a real alternative to the points system

By Keishia Taylor, Shane Finnan & Conor Tormey In 2020, as the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic raged, students campaigned using coordinated social media actions, petitions and huge online rallies, to cancel the Leaving Cert and won. Now in early

Feb 10, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Criminal government actions fuel alarming third wave of Covid-19

Yesterday evening, a new daily record of 7,836 recorded Covid cases was announced as the alarming third wave continues. As well as cases, hospital admissions, including those in ICU, and deaths are rising quickly. Despite the enormous sacrifices made by working-class people

Jan 7, 2021

Historic government coalition faces crises and class war

By Mick Barry TD “The country was very united during the pandemic. The economic crisis that is coming could be very divisive” – Leo Varadkar June 30. 140 days after the General Election a new government was formed in the Republic of

Jul 3, 2020

Green Party once again wrestles with its conscience… and wins

By Colm McCarthy On the 26 June the Greens announced that they had secured the necessary two-thirds majority to enter government with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. In the end it was not even close, as 76% of their members supported the

Jun 29, 2020

Fianna Fáil- Page 2

Government’s emissions targets — another Green sell-out dressed up as progress

115 deaths in homelessness: A shameful indictment of the Government

The misogyny of the Irish state – why the establishment parties are no allies of women

Criminal government inaction as Covid cases soar

Dublin Bay South by-election: Humiliating vote deepens Fianna Fáil crisis

Mica scandal: profiteering creates housing disaster

Cancel the Leaving Cert: Fight for a real alternative to the points system

Criminal government actions fuel alarming third wave of Covid-19

Historic government coalition faces crises and class war

Green Party once again wrestles with its conscience… and wins

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden