Big Tech in Turmoil: ​​Capitalism’s Main Growth Engine Stuttering

Keishia Taylor and Eddie McCabe are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The tech sector is in turmoil — facing its worst crisis since the dot-com bubble burst in the late 1990s. Stock prices are fluctuating wildly, profits are being squeezed, and hundreds of thousands of workers have been laid off. Tech companies […]

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Expropriating the Expropriators

Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Why We Call for Nationalization & Democratic Public Ownership A socialist economic alternative includes many essential features such as wage rises and reduced hours for workers, taxes on wealth and profits, expanded and free public services etc. But a core demand is for […]

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Why the Billions Need to Overthrow the Billionaires

Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The World Inequality Report (WIR), produced by 100 researchers over four years, shows the incredible and increasing disparities that exist in global income and wealth. The capitalist system is a crooked casino. Its inherent contradictions (including extreme inequality) produce recurring crises for which […]

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Afghanistan: An Ignominious End

Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). US Imperialism Withdraws US imperialism’s 20-year war in Afghanistan has come to an ignominious end with the final withdrawal of its 2,500 remaining troops this month. The withdrawal comes two months before Biden’s deadline of 11 September – the 20th anniversary of Al-Qaeda’s criminal […]

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Ireland:The Jobstown trial threatens democratic rights

Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Biggest political trial in decades, as Socialist Party & Anti Austerity Alliance MP and councillors face threat of lengthy prison sentences  The trumped-up charge of false imprisonment and the guilty verdict in the case of a 17-year old who participated in a peaceful […]

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Ireland: Byelection triumph marks turning point in anti-austerity struggle

Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Paul Murphy wins parliamentary seat as 100,000 march against water charges 12 October 2014 will be a day that’s remembered for years to come in Ireland. An estimated 100,000 marched in Dublin against the hated water charges. And on the same day, Paul […]

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