Orlando massacre aftermath– Massive solidarity with LGBTQ community
By Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (sister organisation of Socialist Party in US) Working people have been horrified and deeply shocked by the mass killing of 49 people at a Latino gay nightclub on...
View ArticleSocialists on trial
Three Socialist Party members – Solidarity TD Paul Murphy and Councillors Kieran Mahon and Mick Murphy – are among the first seven adult Jobstown defendants who will stand trial on Monday, 24 April....
View ArticlePaul Murphy TD on Jobstown trials, political policing & the role of the state
“This public force exists in every state; it consists not merely of armed men, but also of material appendages, prisons and coercive institutions of all kinds…” The ‘public force’ designed to protect...
View ArticleA Stunning Blow- Citizens’ Assembly delay tactic backfires
The Citizens’ Assembly was established, not only as a government and political establishment delay-tactic in dealing with the 8th amendment, the consitutional abortion ban, but also quite clearly to...
View ArticleJobstown is innocent: A rotten stitch up exposed
By Cillian Gillespie “The news has just come through from the Central Criminal Court and I am the first to report it to the House. Deputy Paul Murphy, not guilty; Councillor Michael Murphy, not guilty;...
View ArticleAs Dáil Committee meets, demand: Pro-choice- Nothing less
By Ruth Coppinger TD CRITICAL DECISIONS will be made on abortion rights in Ireland between September and December. An Oireachtas Committee of 21 TDs and Senators will adjudicate on the Citizens’...
View ArticleEstablishment attempt to overturn Citizens Assembly proposals
By Diana O’Dwyer A year ago, there was a sudden outbreak of tone policing of the abortion rights movement in the media. In the space of a month, upwards of thirty articles appeared urging women not to...
View ArticleDublin Bus on the chopping block
By Councillor Matt Waine The National Transport Authority (NTA) has now published a report by US transport consultancy firm, Jarret Walker, that drastically overhauls Dublin Bus. The claim is that this...
View ArticlePlebiscite on directly elected Mayors: Vote No!
Solidarity and the Socialist Party this morning called for a NO vote in the upcoming plebiscite on whether to support the creation of a directly elected Lord Mayor position for Cork city. The call came...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Local & Euro Elections 2019: Green Surge & Lacklustre Performance for...
A very significant surge for the Greens, huge loss of seats for Sinn Fein, and losses for the Left were the headline stories of Local and European Elections May 2019. While the elections absolutely did...
View Article500,000 on the streets in Swiss “Women’s Strike” – Solidarity & Struggle is...
By Valerie Leary, ROSA activist and Socialist Party member. Originally posted on the website of ROSA- Socialist Feminist Movement- www.rosa.ie Over 500,000 women, workers and young people took to the...
View Article50 years since Stonewall — PRIDE in LGBTQ Struggle & Solidarity!
Below is the text of the Socialist Party leaflet given out at Pride 2019 in Dublin. Fifty years ago this month, members of the LGBTQ+ community in New York City took a defiant and courageous stand...
View ArticleHong Kong: Airline trade union leader sacked in government revenge attack
HKCTU needs to call strike action by airline and airport workers who are facing the brunt of government ‘white terror’ By Socialist Action reporters (our sister organisation in Hong Kong) The trade...
View ArticlePaul Murphy resigns from the Socialist Party
After an extensive debate within the Socialist Party, a group of members, including Paul Murphy, have decided to leave and intend to launch a new socialist group. When they decided to leave, the party...
View ArticleCapitalist establishment rejected but… How can real change be achieved?
On 8 February, people cast their votes and produced an historic election result, the ripples from which will continue for some time, writes Kevin McLoughlin. The two traditional capitalist parties...
View Article
