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We have received this statement from ‘a group of Revolutionary Communists’ in China. They are not able to give their names in the present repressive situation in China. We are sharing their statement on the protests in China in full. Solidarity with the mass protests demanding the lifting of lockdown
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Ireland was one of the most unequal societies in Europe when the pandemic began. A year later, Brian O’Boyle highlights how the Irish government’s response has widened those inequalities, and it is only through workers organising that these trends can be reversed. The crisis associated with Covid 19
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The race for a vaccine has highlighted the divide between the world’s richest and poorest nations. Finbar Lynch argues for a not-for-profit People’s Vaccine through a suspension of intellectual property rights in order to tackle the pandemic at a global level. “The doctrine that in time
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2021 has started out with Ireland, north and south, being in its worst position since the pandemic began. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin takes both governments to task for their Covid response, arguing that it has been nothing short of neoliberal catastrophe. We have entered the year 2021 in total disaster. Ireland
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The Covid-19 pandemic has seen domestic violence rates soar. Ahead of UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th, Marnie Holborow explains why it is time to challenge the lack of state support for survivors of domestic violence. Governments have relied on individual households
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Jerry Maguire, hospitality worker and Unite Hospitality member, condemns a shambolic Stormont which has failed to support workers, instead putting their health on the line. It’s often remarked that a week is a long time in politics. But when Harold Wilson first coined that expression, he couldn’t have
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After a Spring in which Sweden had one of the worst Covid death rates in Europe, some latched on to their low summer case numbers to argue for a herd immunity approach. But as cases again rise dramatically, Madeleine Johansson challenges the Swedish herd immunity myth. North and South, Ireland
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Despite the heroic efforts of overworked and underpaid frontline workers, the pandemic has exposed the sorry state of health services north and south. Conor Reddy argues that the case for an All-Ireland National Health Service has never been stronger. As Covid-19 case numbers rise and hospitals once again
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With phrases like “protect the vulnerable” & “underlying conditions” currently all around us, disability activist Ruth Flood looks at the horrendous treatment of disabled people under capitalism. The Covid-19 pandemic has been an absolute disaster for disabled people. From the cutting of services and the lack of particular supports
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Following Part One, Mark Walsh now explores the impact of the metabolic rift over the 20th century, including how the drive of capitalist forms of agriculture and primary industry have led to species extinction, ecological collapse and the increased outbreaks of deadly epidemics. The development in 1909, by the German
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With the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) ballot on equal pay, conditions and Covid measures due to close this Thursday, ASTI member Mark Walshe (personal capacity) calls for an emphatic Yes vote. ASTI members are currently balloting on several issues. Prior to the lockdown in March, ASTI had decided
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As cases continue to rise, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the only way to avoid a winter crisis and future rolling lockdowns is an All-Ireland Zero Covid strategy which protects workers and puts public health first. As we approach the end of October, we are entering the kind of