Kneecap, the movie is part comedy, part fictionalised music biopic, part contribution to Irish language rights and part investigation of the state of mind of a generation in the North of Ireland.
Lecturers and support staff at Dundee University are opposing massive job cuts threatened because of a £30 million deficit run up by the university in pursuit of regional investment and profit.
Labour aims to prove itself more hostile to migrants than both its Tory predecessors and Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK.
At the peak of the “storm of the century” 750,000 premises in the Republic of Ireland and 250,000 in Northern Ireland had no power.
A powerful new TV series recounts Lockerbie relative and campaigner Jim Swire’s dedicated struggle for the truth behind his daughter’s 1988 murder in the downing of PA103.
A coalition agreement reached between the winners of the Irish general election and a group of independents marks a sharp rightward shift, in preparation for global instability, the fascistic presidency of Donald Trump and new assaults on the working class.
The Irish government, faced with popular protests, felt obliged to go somewhat further than its peers in offering criticisms of the starvation and massacre of the Palestinians.
The Labour government is intensifying its brutal assault on migrants and asylum seekers with deportation flights, workplace raids, increased surveillance and more legislation.
Ireland’s general election resulted in victory for the ruling parties, amid declining turnout and an ominous international situation. Talks to form a coalition are likely to start immediately and involve Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and third parties.
Ireland goes to the polls November 29 in an election dominated by the implications of Sinn Fein's collapsing support and shift to the right.
Scottish local authorities are offering a supposedly “enhanced” agreement which includes no extra money and no reduction in hours as a conclusion to this year's pay round. It follows a two-week strike by workers at schools in Perth and Kinross.
Salmond's career as the Scottish National Party’s leading representative and the SNP’s record in government serve as devastating refutations of its “progressive” claims and the fatuous assertions of the pseudo-left that Scottish separatism is anti-imperialist and a route to socialism.
Salmond's career as the Scottish National Party’s leading representative and the SNP’s record in government serve as devastating refutations of its “progressive” claims and the fatuous assertions of the pseudo-left that Scottish separatism is anti-imperialist and a route to socialism.
The Scottish pseudo-left aim to tie workers at Grangemouth to the “just transition” or “workers’ transition” fraud proposed by the Unite trade union at the closure-threatened oil refinery.
Workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland are posed with taking the struggle to defend their livelihoods out of the hands of the trade union apparatus and official and government bodies claiming to represent their interests.
Asylum seekers in Ireland face violent attacks, deportation, fascist agitation and homelessness.
Those seeking to oppose fascistic violence need a socialist perspective.
Stella Maris, elected rector of St Andrews University, intends to fight the University Court's decision to dismiss her because of her opposition to Israel’s genocidal war crimes in Gaza.
Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.
Campaign teams for SEP parliamentary candidate Darren Paxton have held many conversations around Inverness on the Gaza genocide, the danger of war and the shift to the right in official politics
