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Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

A historic attack – UK Supreme Court’s bigoted, transphobic ruling

By Ollie Bell Outside the steps of the UK Supreme Court, bottles of champagne were popped by For Women Scotland – an anti-trans campaign group, who sinisterly celebrated as another attack was leveraged against the trans community. The Supreme Court had just

Apr 24, 2025

In the Dáil and on the streets – how can we defeat hate crime?

By Finghin Kelly The killing of Josip Strok has shockingly brought home the reality of hate crime. Josip was from Croatia and was with a friend when he was violently attacked and killed by a group in Clondalkin. His friend said they

Apr 15, 2024

LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Solidarity with Bambi Thug: No to transphobic hate

By Conor Tormey Bambi Thug, the Irish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, has faced backlash and a spate of transphobic comments and abuse from the far-right groups and individuals over the past few weeks. Bambi is non-binary and uses they /

Feb 10, 2024

News & Analysis

Defend libraries from far-right thuggery and intimidation

By Steph Lacey Over the last few months, far-right agitators have been going into libraries and bookshops across Ireland and harassing the workers over what they claim are ‘pornographic’ books being forced on children. In reality, these books are sex education guides

Sep 4, 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

LGBTQ·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Why is the media churning out transphobic drivel?

By Ollie Bell This June, RTE’s Liveline dedicated a three-day-long debate with “The Countess”, a TERF (Trans Exclusionary “Radical” Feminist) organisation given enormous prominence. This group staged a protest outside the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s (NWCI) AGM after being denied entry

Oct 22, 2022

LGBTQ·News & Analysis·Uncategorized

Resisting the backlash & building the movement for LGBTQ liberation

There is a developing right-wing backlash against the rights of the LGBTQ community, particularly trans people, here in Ireland and globally. Conor Payne analyses this phenomena, and how homophobia and transphobia are bound up with the existence of capitalism. In April 2022,

Aug 8, 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

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Solidarity with LGBTQ community against homophobic & transphobic violence

The horrific murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee in Sligo this week — crimes that appear to be motivated by an insidious hatred of LGBTQ people — have provoked an outpouring of grief, disgust, and anger. The Socialist Party sends our

Apr 14, 2022

Anti-racism

Far-right homophobic rally targets Roderic O’Gorman TD

By Finn McKenna The Socialist Party condemns the homophobic campaign being waged against Roderic O’Gorman TD. It is clear that the driving motivation here is for far-right reactionaries to whip up vicious homophobic attacks in a twisted attempt find an echo for

Jul 15, 2020

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