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Qatar World Cup: Football has never been more political

By John Hird — NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing and International Socialist Alternative The oligarchs, dictatorships and dodgy billionaire owners of football clubs, through their well-oiled PR machines, say, ‘keep politics out of sport,’ but football has never been more political. Grassroots fan
Nov 21, 2022

FIFA corruption and the Qatar World Cup

By Jonathan Diebold With an abysmal record on human rights this year’s FIFA World cup yet again takes place under the shadow of controversy. it’s taking place in Qatar, a small yet extremely wealthy country and one of the world’s last remaining
Nov 20, 2022

Interview: Women’s football 2019- Equal pay, #Metoo & Megan Rapinoe

Keishia Taylor interviewed Suzanne Wrack, Women’s Football Writer for The Guardian and Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England and Wales) member, on her way to Lisbon – the first time The Guardian had sent someone to cover an international women’s friendly!
Oct 17, 2019

Qatar: World cup of corruption and exploitation

By Paddy Meehan Sepp Blatter’s decision to resign as FIFA President didn’t come as a result of the horrifying conditions migrant workers face in building the new stadiums in Qatar, but as a final attempt to save the corrupt elite at the
Jun 9, 2015

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden

Divide & Rule: Labour & the Partition of Ireland