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Suicides show the depth of mental health crisis in the Traveller community

By Seamus O’Reilly The Traveller community has been rocked in the past weeks by the deaths of children by suicide, including children reported to be as young as nine and 11 years of age. These events are not only heartbreakingly tragic but

Jun 24, 2022

News & Analysis·Uncategorized

Inside Direct Provision: Interview with an asylum seeker

The Socialist spoke to Emine Ertas, a Kurdish asylum seeker from Turkey, about her experiences as an asylum seeker here in Ireland, and particularly her experiences of living within the system of Direct Provision. What is the situation like in your home

May 17, 2022

Anti-racism·News & Analysis

16 months since the killing of George Nkencho – the fight for truth and justice continues

By Aoife Coppinger George Nkencho, a young black man who lived in Dublin 15, was shot dead by Gardaí on 30 December 2020 outside his front door a mere 20 minutes after encountering them. George was going through a mental health crisis

May 3, 2022

World News

Another victory for Viktor Orbán — What is going on in Hungary?

By Till Ruster, Sozialistische LinksPartei (our sister organisation in Austria) To state the obvious: in a country with a notoriously authoritarian head of government, who has been in power since 2010, no election campaign is “fair”, even by bourgeois standards. The main opposition

Apr 17, 2022

Anti-racism·Anti-war·World News

Racism against black & brown refugees fleeing Ukraine

By Phemelo Motseokae (WASP — our sister organisation in South Africa) The world is standing on its toes, watching in horror at the unfolding events in Ukraine. At the time of writing, over 1.2 million people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries

Mar 8, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism·The North

Tweeting bile & hate: What Doug Beattie’s tweets say about the political establishment in the North

By Amy Ferguson Ulster Unionist Party leader, Doug Beattie, has been dragged into the spotlight over a chain of old (and despicable) tweets depicting his own sexist, racist and ableist attitudes. These range from racial slurs to ‘jokes’ about women’s role being

Feb 2, 2022

World News

United States: Haitian refugees brutalized at the border

By Dante Flores, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Social media was rocked recently by horrific images of Customs and Border Patrol agents on horseback attacking Haitian refugees in Del Rio, Texas. The Department of Homeland Security, in the

Sep 29, 2021

News & Analysis

‘No End in Site’ report exposes the State’s war on Travellers

By Séamus O’Reilly The ‘No End in Site’ report on the Spring Lane halting site in Cork City by the Ombudsman for Children exposes horrific racism and discrimination by the Irish State. Since the report was published many other Travellers have come

Aug 30, 2021

Theory & History

US: How did the working class win the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

By Tamar Wilson, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) The Black working class, minority communities, and American poor were under consistent economic assault prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but have now entered a state of emergency in this sustained

Jul 24, 2021

Featured Articles·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

5 reasons why capitalism can’t be patched up, and has to go

By Eddie McCabe If the world today seems chaotic and the future looks bleak, try to remember one thing: it’s not you, it’s capitalism. The accelerating decay of this system is increasing the rate of all kinds of disasters, as well as

Jul 10, 2021

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