Student accommodation: Another year, another dire crisis
By Brandon Byrne The housing crisis has reached depressing new lows with the Department of Housing reporting at…
Chaos, crisis & catastrophe – capitalist decay in the 2020s
By Laura Fitzgerald It’s been dubbed the Age of Disorder. The 2020s and the present era of capitalism…
Budget 2023: Government token measures are an insult
By Mick Barry TD Tuesday, 27 September is Budget Day and hard pressed working-class people will be demanding…
Britain: Liz Truss appointed — Prepare for an Autumn of struggle
Editorial from Socialist Alternative, paper of our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland A storm is gathering…
New cold war: What’s behind the Taiwan Strait crisis?
By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The chain of events sparked by Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on 2-3 August…
War in Ukraine: What can the labour movement do?
By Eric Byl, first published in ‘Lutte Socialiste’/’De Linkse Socialist’, monthly papers of PSL/LSP (our sister organisation in…
Reject the public sector pay (cutting) deal-Organise & mobilise to win a real pay rise
By Mark Johnson At the time of writing the government has negotiated a pay agreement with the ICTU…
Obituary: The last General Secretary dies
It was announced this week that Mikhail Gorbachev, last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet…
Bankrupt Pakistan faces the worst floods in its history
By Geert Cool, Left Socialist Party (our sister organisation in Belgium) Pakistan’s poverty-stricken masses face many problems. There…
Two-tier pay & insecure conditions fuel teacher retention crisis
By Ruth Coppinger, ASTI member and former Socialist Party TD As schools reopened, a teacher spoke on RTE…