Month: January 2019
15 posts
Free Derry – legacy of working-class resistance
By Seamus McLaughlin Free Derry has a proud place in the history of radicalism in Northern Ireland, when…
Storm clouds gather for world economy
By Paul Murphy TD The longest ever rising stock market in history came to a dramatic end in…
Venezuela: For mass mobilization of workers to build real socialism and put an end to corrupt bureaucracy!
By Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Venezuela) Executive Committee The situation in Venezuela has reached a critical point during…
Britain & Northern Ireland: Tory Brexit crisis & the role of the labour movement
The scale of the defeat in Westminster of Theresa May’s UK/EU withdrawal deal, by 432 votes to 202,…
Fighting union busting- Solidarity with striking ambulance workers
By Mick Barry TD Hundreds of ambulance paramedics, advanced paramedics and emergency medical technicians placed pickets on HSE…
The Chavista movement & the struggle for socialist change
Over the last number of days it has become clear that that the Trump regime and US imperialism…
Why we need a national health service
By Diana O’Dwyer In announcing the nurses’ overwhelming decision to strike, INMO President, Martina Harkin-Kelly said: “We’re standing…
Environmental destruction: “We should change the system itself”
By Gary McDonald “We have come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like…
Teachers demand pay equality
The Socialist spoke to Socialist Party member Sandra Fay, a secondary school teacher in Tallaght and an activist…
Worker rights’ under attack in the Abbey
The Abbey is now is creating fewer jobs, for shorter periods, for artists here by cheaply buying in…