The Socialist #163, Jan / Feb 2025

Get the latest issue of The Socialist; €1 for an issue, €2 solidarity price, €5 super-solidarity price.

Resist Trumpism & the rise of a fascistic billionaire class

Also in this issue of The Socialist:

  • Hurtling towards capitalist catastrophe – 2024 in numbers
  • DCC attacking soup runs: Targeting the victims of poverty, not the creators
  • Market system leads to record homelessness & housing insecurity
  • Report: 89% of disabled women have suffered abuse
  • Obituary: Paddy Hill (1944-2025)
  • Bringing corruption and backwardness back – FF and FG’s new coalition
  • The new opposition – ‘centre left’ parties offer only false hope
  • Sinn Féin’s shameful betrayal of trans youth – Northern Executive bans puberty blockers
  • Shining a light on a sordid past: Journalists win case against the PSNI
  • The return of Trump and the fascistic billionaire regime
  • Musk leads the MAGAfication of Corporate America
  • The Irish State is no friend of Palestinians
  • Ceasefire in Gaza: The struggle against Genocide isn’t over
  • “Shame must change sides” – The vital case of Gisèle Pelicot
  • A new round of attacks on public sector workers
  • Save Pálás Cinema – culture and arts before profit
  • New report exposes state racism against Travellers
  • Review: The Substance directed by Coralie Fargeat
  • Socialism 101: Can capitalism ever deliver gender equality? (Part 1)
  • United States: Luigi Mangione case exposes deep class divide
  • Scorched earth capitalism: Wildfires bring apocalyptic scenes to LA

Thank you for supporting our crucial campaigning work to build a socialist alternative for workers, young people and the future and our planet.

Please pay what you can!

We rely on donations from working class people to support our work, and act only in the interests of the working class – not rich donors or profit-hungry businesses. Thank you for helping to fund the work of the Socialist Party to build a working-class movement to fight for a socialist future, run by and for working people and our needs, not for profit. If you like what you read, please consider a subscription to our publications and getting more involved!