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Socialists and Scottish Independence

17/10/2020 By Colm Breathnach 6 Comments

Socialists and Scottish Independence

Socialists support Scottish independence because it would create better conditions for short-term working-class victories and the long-term struggle for socialism. It would also herald the end of the imperialist British state. Socialists support the right of self-determination – in this case the right of the people of Scotland –  to decide their own future democratically. […]

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Irish Relationship and Sexuality Education should be secular and not controlled by Catholic bishops

05/08/2020 By Aislinn Wallace 1 Comment

Sexual Health, SPHE, RSE

The challenge of obtaining secular Relationship and Sexuality Education in Irish schools has been ongoing since 1995, when the teaching of RSE was first introduced to Irish schools. The main thrust for the introduction of the programme was a sharp rise in teenage pregnancies and the AIDS epidemic. The Irish constitution recognises the role of […]

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Ireland after COVID19: Unite the Union’s ‘Hope or Austerity’ road map

06/05/2020 By John Lyons Leave a Comment

Debenhams workers in masks picket line

To date 3.6 million people worldwide have been infected by Covid-19, with over a quarter of a million (258,000) dying from the respiratory illness that attacks the lungs and airways. From December 2019 the virus travelled from its original source in southern China to all of Asia, Europe and the rest of the world in […]

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Brexit: What Should Irish Socialists Say?

19/10/2019 By Conor Kostick 1 Comment

Nigel Farrage the man behind Brexit gets hit with milkshake

Short version: Independent Left advocate Remain. At the time of writing, there is still a lot of uncertainty around whether and under what conditions the UK will leave EU. On Saturday 19 October, it seemed possible that Boris Johnson would just about get a Brexit deal through the UK parliament, only for him to be […]

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The Shock of Climate Change, the Awe of Geo-Engineering

17/09/2019 By Conor Kostick 2 Comments

Solar geoengineering

Even if human society immediately managed a complete stop to the emission of carbon, we will fail to achieve the target of the Paris Accord of 2016, of keeping the increase in planetary temperatures to under 2% above pre-industrial levels. And of course, carbon emissions, far from coming to an end are increasing. There is […]

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