The decision by Keelings, a fruit company based in North County Dublin, and Ryanair to charter a flight from Bulgaria to Dublin with 189 workers on board in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has provoked outrage.
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Reverse the inhumane decision! Cancel the 2020 Leaving Cert Exams now!
Cancel the Leaving Cert now!
Read More »A horrific crisis: COVID-19 and nursing homes scandal
The Government and the HSE’s abject failure to protect the elderly and most vulnerable in nursing homes right across Ireland is an absolute scandal.
Read More »Africa & Covid-19: Capitalism driving a continent into the abyss
By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative (the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated to) The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the profound social inequalities prevailing under modern capitalism. Nowhere more than in Africa. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is a measured assessment of 195 countries’ capacity and readiness to face outbreaks of infectious ...
Read More »5G conspiracies — looking for answers in the wrong place
By Niamh Ní Bhranghaile A year ago, conspiracy theories about the damage of 5G Wi-Fi emerged but failed to gain significant traction. However, as people struggle to make sense of their lives, which have been turned upside down by the Coronavirus pandemic, these conspiracy theories have grown legs and have resulted in thousands of stories being shared in countless online ...
Read More »Oppose Government plans to hold the Junior and Leaving Certs
By Michael O’Brien The high handed approach of the Department of Education and Science in their proposals for the state exams this year has provoked an angry reaction by teachers (and indeed school students sitting these exams), which is at odds with the accepting tone of the initial online statements issued by the TUI and ASTI. Since the shutdown of ...
Read More »North: We need proper PPE NOW!
The Tory Government and Assembly Executive have referred to the Covid-19 pandemic as a war. However, across many areas of our health and social care service, the staff who are on the frontline of this war have not been supplied with the protection they need.
Read More »Traveller discrimination and COVID-19
The Traveller Community face extreme marginalisation, poorer health, greater overcrowding and unemployment and as a result are at significantly greater risk to covid-19.
Read More »Capitalism’s Covid-19 Catastrophe
Apologists for capitalism claim that the system is doing the best it can faced with a new virus in today’s complex and interconnected world.
Read More »Wuhan Lockdown Lifted After 76 Days
On 8 April, the 76-day lockdown imposed on the metropolis of Wuhan (11 million inhabitants) ended.
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