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With half the world’s population living under enormous social restrictions due to the coronavirus, one European country has taken a starkly different approach. Madeleine Johansson reports on the reckless approach of Swedish authorities. While most of Europe is on lockdown as a result of the coronavirus, the Swedish situation
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The roots of Ireland’s housing crisis are entirely solvable, if only need were put before profit, argues PBP Cllr Tina MacVeigh. Now that the COVID-19 crisis is forcing the Irish government to take drastic measures, we must ensure there is no going back. We are living through a
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The Coronavirus crisis has laid bare the lengths capitalism will go to in order to preserve its profits, putting workers, families, and wider society at serious risk. Eddie Conlon reports on workers leading the fightback the world over. “They don’t care about our health!” So says a Pittsburgh sanitation
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A Health Minister who backs away from providing accessible reproductive healthcare in a time of international crisis should be held to account, and Stormont Health Minister Robin Swann has proven he is incapable of navigating that terrain. Decades of campaigning, covert networks providing illegal support, lobbying, arrests and countless other
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Socialist ideas have been jeered and sneered at by the same establishment now faced with the consequences of their profit driven contempt. We should be done with those bellowing cheerleaders of capitalism, argues Eamonn McCann. On March 27th, Donald Trump invoked the Defence Production Act to direct General Motors to
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In the second part of a two part series, “What if?” Todd Chretien analyses the impact on Bernie’s election campaign, and the role of socialists amidst the Covid-19 crisis. Part 1 is available here. The Covid-19 crisis has dwarfed the a presidential election that was in full
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In the first part of a two part series, “What if?” Todd Chretien talks Trump, capitalism and Covid-19. At the writing of this article, the Covid-19 death toll in the US has surpassed 1600, although casualties are mounting so fast this number will seem impossibly old in a
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Even before the coronavirus crisis the argument for system change was compelling, but as John Molyneux outlines we cannot wait any longer. Capitalism has always been morally indefensible because of the inequality, exploitation, war, racism and oppression that it inevitably generates. The threat of imminent catastrophic climate change lent urgency
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At least one person has tested positive in one of Ireland’s Direct Provision Centres where the self-isolation is impossible. Anti-racism campaigner Memet Uludag insists action must be taken now to protect those in centres and on the streets. As the spread of Coronavirus continues, asylum seekers in
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Stewart Smyth looks at the future for the housing movement in Ireland – after an election result which was fuelled by the housing crisis. One of the main drivers behind last month’s historic general election result, was concerns over housing. The RTE exit poll found housing and homelessness as the
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Having insisted for decades on the sanctity of the markets, austerity-driven world leaders are now coming up with billions to bail out a capitalist system which, as Brian O’Boyle explains, was already in ill-health. The S&P 500 is an American stock market that follows the
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As health workers warn of shortages of PPE, ventilators and ICU beds, Eamonn McCann looks at how production can be reorganised to solve the problem. It has been done before and it can be done again. One of the most perplexing aspects of the pandemic lies in the apparent inability