NATO Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Trump, Greenland, and the end of the ‘rules-based order’

By Donal Devlin We’re not even past January and 2026 already feels like a dizzying whirlwind, with Donald Trump at its centre. The kidnapping of Maduro, threats to bomb Iran, and the creation of a colonial “Board of Peace” for Gaza, consisting

Jan 22, 2026

Military spending set to soar as Triple Lock is abolished

By Jonathan Diebold While healthcare waiting lists fill up, disabled people languish on poverty-level payments and many ordinary people struggle to keep the lights on, there is one sector which is seeing a spending bonanza. A squadron of fighter jets is set

Mar 4, 2025

Environment·World News

NATO military spending is a war on the climate

By Miranda Stewart At a time when reducing greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever, a recent report makes clear that NATO military spending targets are pushing the world in the opposite direction. The report, ‘Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military

Feb 9, 2024

Government attempts to drum up support for militarisation and war

By Jonathan Diebold There was much clutching of pearls in the Dáil over the last several months as Socialist Party TD Mick Barry challenged the government on their Consultative Forum on National Security. This four-day event replaced Micheál Martin’s proposed citizens’ assembly

Jul 24, 2023

World News

Kurds deported to Turkey, NATO militarisation continues

Editorial from Offensiv, paper of Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (our sister organisation in Sweden) Sweden’s application to join Nato is pushing Swedish politics even further in a “blue-brown” direction. The consequences are already extremely clear: On Saturday morning, two Kurds were deported from Sweden

Dec 9, 2022

Anti-war·World News

End war & militarisation – what does mobilisation in Russia mean for the war in Ukraine?

By Walter Chambers, Socialist Alternative Once again, President Putin has shocked the world with his TV broadcast to the Russian population in which he announced the “partial mobilisation” of troops to send to Ukraine, in what is still officially not called a

Sep 25, 2022

Anti-war·World News

Ukraine: A Turning point in the war?

By Per-Ake Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative That the Ukrainian army could retake the key city of Izium in just a few days, drive Russian troops out of the entire Kharkiv region, and put pressure on the front in the Donbass was not

Sep 23, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Sabina Higgins runs afoul of establishment war-mongers

By Michael O’Brien A letter by Sabina Higgins, wife of President Higgins, to The Irish Times on 27 July, concerning the war in Ukraine, has been seized upon for attack by various Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians and other pro-capitalist establishment

Aug 9, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

War in Ukraine – a new drawn-out phase

The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on 9 May: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short victorious war in Ukraine. But it was not able to do so. It has

May 19, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

War in Ukraine, the new era and the crisis of capitalism

The statement below on the war in Ukraine and its implications for the manifold crises of global capitalism was discussed, debated, amended and approved unanimously at a meeting of the International Committee of ISA — our international leadership elected at our World

Apr 11, 2022

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