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Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Pride 2025: Queer liberation will not be sponsored by corporations

By Yash Sinojia The news hit like a gut punch: Indeed, the global job-search giant withdrew its sponsorship from Dublin Pride. Their hollow justification? A desire to “focus on internal diversity and inclusion efforts.” This corporate cowardice isn’t isolated – it’s the

Jun 6, 2025

Theory & History

Lenin and liberation – how Michael McDowell is wrong

By Manus Lenihan Placards with the image of the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin appeared at a pro-trans rights protest in Dublin last week. Former minister Michael McDowell took the opportunity to write an opinion piece in The Irish Times arguing that human

Sep 22, 2023

News & Analysis

Cork’s only queer venue cancelled for profit

By Caoimhe Lyons Cork City’s only explicitly advertised gay venue ‘Chambers’ has rebranded itself to be ‘queer-free’ so that it won’t turn off straight people going out during freshers week. This involved removing every poster, every mural, every drop of decor that

Sep 14, 2023

Reviews and Culture

Review: Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate directed by Benjamin Cantu

By Conor Payne Netflix’s new documentary Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate shows us a moment in time when, during Germany’s Weimar Republic (1918-1933), there was an opening up of some freedoms for queer people, which allowed many to live more openly than

Jul 26, 2023

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Trans Healthcare – misinformation is an attack on our liberation

By Miranda Stewart As the capitalist system struggles for a stability that can never come, right-wing backlash against marginalised people has found momentum. Attacks on transgender and intersex people’s rights are part of that backlash. As with right-wing conspiratorial rhetoric about care

Jul 13, 2023

Queer Lives under attack – Resist the right wing backlash this Pride

Last month, a video of a horrific attack on a 14 year-old gay student in Navan by a group of students was posted on social media. The victim was hospitalised and suffered severe facial injuries. The video resulted in the arrest of

Jun 24, 2023

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

The “rainbow capitalism” lie: Why LGBTQphobia is part of the system

By Conor Payne This Pride Month we will see, as we do every year, major companies putting out pride-themed advertising, changing their social media profiles and putting out anodyne statements about inclusivity. On one level, this is a fairly simple attempt to

Jun 8, 2023

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Trans Pride 2022: How can we win liberation & bodily autonomy?

Trans and Intersex Pride this year is happening in the context of an escalation of transphobia globally, including in Ireland. Now, more than ever, there is an urgent need for us all to stand up against this vile hate and division. That

Jul 9, 2022

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Solidarity against transphobia, violence & capitalism: Build a movement for LGBTQ+ liberation.

In April 2022, two gay men, Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee were murdered within 24 hours of each other in Sligo; murders motivated by homophobic hatred. These brutal killings brought home a reality – that just being LGBTQ+ can still put you

Jun 23, 2022

The dire state of trans healthcare in Ireland

By Ollie Bell Despite Ireland winning many gains for the LGBTQ+ community such as Marriage Equality and the Gender Recognition Act in 2015, the fight for LGBTQ+ rights isn’t over. Currently the trans community is facing the ever-growing crisis of the trans

Jun 13, 2022

LGBTQ liberation

Pride 2025: Queer liberation will not be sponsored by corporations

Lenin and liberation – how Michael McDowell is wrong

Cork’s only queer venue cancelled for profit

Review: Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate directed by Benjamin Cantu

Trans Healthcare – misinformation is an attack on our liberation

Queer Lives under attack – Resist the right wing backlash this Pride

The “rainbow capitalism” lie: Why LGBTQphobia is part of the system

Trans Pride 2022: How can we win liberation & bodily autonomy?

Solidarity against transphobia, violence & capitalism: Build a movement for LGBTQ+ liberation.

The dire state of trans healthcare in Ireland

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden