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Aer Lingus: pauperising of workers must be resisted
by Ruth Coppinger A brutal assault on the pay and conditions of workers is taking place at Aer…
Brazil: Fight the three plagues — Bolsonaro, the pandemic and inequality!
Brazil is moving quickly towards the abyss. We are the victims of three plagues that terribly affect the…
Billionaires profit from a pandemic!
By Haritha Olaganathan US billionaires saw their collective wealth increase by $282 billion in the first twenty-three days…
North: Meat workers take action to defend public health
by Daniel Waldron “If the disease was in the animals, they’d have closed the place. But for workers,…
Mental health: We can’t tolerate the intolerable
by Eóin Dawson Over the course of the pandemic, there has been speculation about what impact the lockdown…
Covid-19 payment: Varadkar insults social welfare recipients (again)!
By Shane Finnan Yesterday Taoiseach Leo Varadkar provoked widespread anger amongst workers and young people with his out-of-touch…
Covid-19 crisis and the ideology of individualism
By Dan O’Rourke Before the pandemic, it would have been difficult for many to imagine neo-liberal and right-wing…
How Big Pharma blocks our healthcare
By Summer Conneely Within the current Covid-19 crisis, there are important negotiations occurring among the world’s leaders on…
Covid-19, Disaster Capitalism & the Urgent Case for Socialism
By Eddie McCabe & Keishia Taylor, from the Summer 2020 edition of Socialist Alternative, the political journal of…
How we can organise & win an alternative to the Leaving Cert
By Myriam Poizat All over the world, frontline and essential workers are being left with very little or…
