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Homelessness
16 posts
115 deaths in homelessness: A shameful indictment of the Government
By Finn McKenna The tragic news of 115 deaths of homeless people in the last year is another…
Nevada homelessness – a picture of US capitalism today
By Harper Cleves In the last weekend of March, images of a parking lot converted into a homeless…
Housing crisis in a pandemic
By Andrea Murray Covid-19 has plunged the world into a situation of unparalleled uncertainty and anxiety, for none…
Seething anger at housing crisis grows
By Katia Hancke On Thursday 5 December, in the middle of the day, thousands of people took to…
10,517 (officially) Homeless at Xmas: End this rotten, rigged system
“I attended court with a young homeless boy who had been charged with theft of a bottle of…
Review of Paddy Breathnach’s Rosie
Rosie, Tiff, 2018, Directed by Paddy Breathnach Reviewed by Grace Gageby The housing crisis in Ireland today has created an…
Our crisis. Their profits- Protests shine light on housing crisis
By Solidarity TD and Socialist Party member Mick Barry Ten thousand people attended a lunchtime protest outside the…
Government spin machine fiddles homeless figures
By Ciaran McKenna The prospect of homelessness figures crossing the 10,000 threshold has clearly worried the government in…
Homelessness, profiteering & the private market
By Colm McCarthy THE DEATH of three homeless people in Dublin, Kildare and Cork in less than a…
Homelessness, inequality, childcare… Why capitalism isn’t delivering?
By Kevin McLoughlin SUPPLY AND demand in the “free market” is supposedly the best way to produce what…