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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Chris Stewart and Keishia Taylor are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Marx’s theory that capitalism created a “metabolic rift” between human society and nature has re-emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding the climate crisis we face today. In recent years millions of young and working-class people have engaged in protests against […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) and ROSA. An unprecedented wave of grief and anger has gripped the country following the devastating murder of 23 year-old Ashling Murphy in Tullamore. Tens of thousands have participated in countless vigils in every city, town and village in Ireland, North and South, […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). All this week of the COP 26 in Glasgow, Socialist Alternative will have articles on the issues at stake. The existential threat of the climate crisis has never been more obvious or more urgent. The 2021 IPCC report has confirmed that we are […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Book details: The Return of Nature, John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, 2020 John Bellamy Foster’s ground-breaking Marx’s Ecology in 2000 demonstrated that Marxism, from the beginning, dealt with ecological questions. Its long-awaited sequel, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, developed these […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The 1918-1919 “Spanish Flu” killed between 50-100 million people, more than the number of deaths in the First and Second World Wars combined. According to expert Laura Spinney the Spanish flu “re-sculpted human populations more radically than anything since the Black Death.” The […]
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