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Class inequality & COVID-19
By Dean O’Donnell While responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have varied from country to country, one common thread…
How can Debenhams jobs be saved?
Below is the text of a letter written by Socialist Party members Mick Barry TD and Ruth Coppinger…
United States–A Deadly Cocktail: COVID-19, Race and Capitalism
In early March, the first known cases of COVID-19 began to emerge in the United States. It has…
COVID-19: For-Profit care of the elderly exposed
By Andrea Murray Going into the COVID-19 crisis the priority for the government was to “flatten the curve”…
Stop attack on Covid-19 payment
By Councillor Kieran Mahon The “Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment” was introduced in March in the face of the…
Existential threat of climate change looms large
By Ben Samson While the world reels in the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the climate change…
Cancel Leaving Cert 2020 now! Listen to the students!
Statement from Mick Barry TD Leo Varadkar, Joe McHugh and the Department of Education display cold disregard for…
May Day 2020: Capitalism is the Virus – Socialism is the Only Cure
Five Reasons To Fight for a Socialist World in 2020
Why Covid-19 is not the “great leveller”
By Robert Cosgrave The horrific Covid-19 crisis has graphically exposed the multiple inequalities and forms of oppression that…
Food dumping: Obscene waste at a time of mass want
By Ollie Bell The Covid-19 crisis is exposing the inherent weaknesses in the capitalist system. The privatisation of…