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New Taoiseach, same disastrous right-wing policies

By Mick Barry TD Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking-Glass, published in 1871, featured the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee. According to Wikipedia, The Tweedle brothers “agree to have a battle, but never have one… Rather, they complement each other’s words, which led John

Dec 16, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis

11,000 in emergency accommodation- Government housing policy in total shambles

By Peter McGregor THE HOUSING and homelessness crisis in Ireland is a defining legacy of the cycle of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil governments, and the various parties that have propped them up. Official statistics show there are nearly 11,000 homeless people

Nov 19, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Budget 2023: Minimal measures will leave thousands cold & hungry this winter

By Mick Barry TD The Government spin machine went into overdrive this week and the corporate media ran banner headlines hailing a “Giveaway Budget” and an “€11 Billion Bonanza”. While it is true that under pressure from below the Government spent more

Sep 30, 2022

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

Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Capitalist cost of living crisis – Build a movement to demand action

By Conor Payne The cost-of-living crisis is having a devastating effect on the lives of working-class people. Official inflation is at a 38-year high, but this understates the reality of the crisis in many people’s lives, particularly the poorest. And this crisis

Jul 7, 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

Katherine Zappone rewarded for loyal service to the establishment

By Michael O’Brien What Ireland lacks in a UK system of honours, knighthoods and peerages is made up for in some measure by government appointments of their favourites to various paid statutory, board and ad hoc paying positions. Katherine Zappone’s appointment as

Jul 29, 2021

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

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New Taoiseach, same disastrous right-wing policies

11,000 in emergency accommodation- Government housing policy in total shambles

Budget 2023: Minimal measures will leave thousands cold & hungry this winter

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

Capitalist cost of living crisis – Build a movement to demand action

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

Katherine Zappone rewarded for loyal service to the establishment

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

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden