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Irish Military Neutrality in the Crosshairs

Since Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the mainstream media in Ireland has been flooded with articles about the need to “reevaluate Ireland’s neutrality”. The capitalist establishment here has its sights set on entering military alliances and increasing militarisation.
bySocialist Party
June 20, 2023
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The same struggle – unite against gender violence, racism and the far-right

The femicide of 23 year-old teacher Ashling Murphy on 12 January 2022, cutting a young life callously and brutally short, provoked a mass response. In a moment replete with profound sadness, anger and solidarity: anger at the social ill of men’s violence against women in all its forms; sadness for Ashling’s family, for the children in Ashling’s class who lost their teacher; tens of thousands, probably upwards of 100,000, congregated in countless vigils in every nook and cranny of the island in cities, towns, housing estates, a myriad of sporting clubs etc. The government felt under pressure and pledged “a zero-tolerance policy to tackle domestic, sexual and gender-based violence”. Nothing concrete has yet been delivered, however.
bySocialist Party
March 6, 2023
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Debenhams – Year Long Still Strong!

On a number of occasions, as various milestones were passed, the Debenhams shop stewards have said that they did not set out to break records. However, to sustain a struggle for a year in the freakish circumstances of a pandemic and a lockdown is remarkable and further seals the place of the Debenhams workers in Irish labour history.

bySocialist Party
April 9, 2021
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South: Cancel the Leaving Cert, Fight for a real alternative to the points system

In 2020, as the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic raged, students campaigned using coordinated social media actions, petitions and huge online rallies, to cancel the Leaving Cert and won. Now in early 2021, student action has put the cancellation of the Leaving Cert on the agenda, pressured opposition parties to somewhat support students’ demands, and cornered the government into making a decision . With sustained coordinated action, we can fight not only to win  cancellation of the traditional leaving cert this year, but point towards what kind of education system is needed.

bySocialist Party
February 10, 2021
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Governments pass the buck for Covid-19 surge

The beginning of 2021 has seen a significant increase in the number of Covid-19 cases across Ireland, North and South. Both states have infection rates among the worst in the world, as the Stormont Executive and Irish government continue to fail working people with their mishandling of the pandemic. 

bySocialist Party
January 25, 2021