Month: June 2019
26 posts
How long can Hong Kong’s “zombie” leader Carrie Lam cling to power?
Interview with Vincent Kolo taken from www.chinaworker.info, the website of our sister organisation in Hong Kong/China/Taiwan on the…
500,000 on the streets in Swiss “Women’s Strike” – Solidarity & Struggle is powerful
By Valerie Leary, ROSA activist and Socialist Party member. Originally posted on the website of ROSA- Socialist Feminist…
Direct Provision = Institutionalised state racism
By Fiona Ryan Recent documents leaked from the Department of Justice exposed the rotten politics at the heart…
#TeachDontPreach: Protests demand proper sex education
By Andrea Murray On May 28, parents of children who attend Castleknock Educate Together National School staged a…
The Ballymurphy Massacre: Families deserve truth & justice
By Kevin Henry Six months before Bloody Sunday – when the infamous Parachute Regiment (Paras) killed 14 unarmed…
Mass movement defeated water charges before and will defeat them again
Press Statement: Paul Murphy TD (Solidarity) 10 June 2019 €500 excessive usage water charges are Trojan Horse for…
Hong Kong’s one million march – political strike is the way forward
Protests escalate as government refuses to bend over extradition law Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) One…
Climate catastrophe: Why you must be red to be green
The first half of 2019 has been characterised by the eruption of a huge movement around climate change,…
Tackling the mental health crisis
by Ryan McNally Mental health services continue to be so overwhelmed by demand that people seeking help routinely…
“Keep it in the ground”: End the use of fossil fuels
By Dean O’Donnell Last year, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have a mere…