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Ruth Coppinger’s bill to ban fox hunting passes first stage despite anti-democratic manoeuvring

By Jonathan Diebold Fox hunting: the quintessential activity of the English aristocracy. Grab your red coat, saddle your horse, assemble the hounds, and watch them rip a defenseless animal to shreds – a fox, or maybe just whatever family pet gets in

May 31, 2025

All parties should boycott White House on St. Patrick’s Day – don’t greenwash Genocide Joe!

The annual gifting of a bowl of shamrocks to the Commander in Chief of US capitalism and imperialism by the sitting Taoiseach is always a cringing affair. This year, it takes place with the horror of the Israeli State’s genocide against the

Jan 25, 2024

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Theory & History

Sinn Féin, PBP and the question of a left government in Ireland

By Eddie McCabe The following article was first published in issue #18 of Socialist Alternative, the theoretical magazine of Socialist Party. Sinn Féin became the largest party in the south for the first time in the general election of 2020, with 24.5%

Aug 4, 2023

Socialists and a Sinn Féin Government

Sinn Féin could well lead the next Government in the South. This would be historic in Irish politics but raises many questions, including: would Sinn Féin actually deliver the real change that working-class people need and hope for? Can Sinn Féin be

Dec 1, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

North: From ‘historic election’ to new crisis at Stormont

By Kevin Henry This year’s Assembly election was historic, with Sinn Féin emerging as the largest party, the first non-Unionist party to do so in the 101-year history of the state. As Lewis Goodwall, policy editor for BBC Newsnight put it, “Northern

Jul 2, 2022

‘War Against Bolshevism’: The Irish Civil War, 1922-23

This week marks 100 years since the outbreak of the Irish Civil War. The British prime minister threatened ‘terrible war’ unless the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed. ‘Terrible war’ came anyway – only it was fought by men in green uniforms instead of

Jun 28, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

Northern Assembly elections: We need a socialist alternative to sectarian division

By Daniel Waldron THE OVERARCHING nature of the Assembly election on 5 May will, unfortunately, be deeply sectarian. Sinn Féin will appeal to Catholic voters to return them as the largest party, which they pose as a step towards securing a border

Apr 19, 2022

Comment & Other·News & Analysis

Sinn Féin preparing for power in the South: Can it deliver real change?

For many months now support for Sinn Féin in the South has been elevated in opinion polls, reaching as high as 35% and raising the prospect of it leading the next government with Mary Lou McDonald as Taoiseach. Posed by some as

Mar 4, 2022

News & Analysis

Mass movement takes on vulture funds in Berlin

By Robert Cosgrave On Sunday, 26 September – coinciding with Germany’s general election – 56.4% of Berliners (a figure that would very likely be higher were it not for restrictive citizenship laws) voted to demand the properties of the major corporate landlords be

Nov 4, 2021

Theory & History

40 years since the end of Hunger Strikes: How state repression could be fought

By Sean Burns The hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the events preceding them, was one of the many horrific chapters in the Troubles, and arguably helped create a new spiral of conflict and violence lasting for more than a decade. The Thatcher

Oct 17, 2021

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