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Film Review: ‘Small Things Like These’ (96 minutes adapted from Claire Keegan’s novel by Enda Walsh)

November 13, 2024 Carol Brogan

‘Small Things Like These’ is set in a small town in early 1980s Ireland and stars Oscar winner Cillian Murphy as coal man Bill Furlong. His 5 daughters attend the local Catholic school. Managed, typically […]

Ireland-North

Health Service in Crisis: Campaigners Need a Political Voice

November 27, 2022 Ciaran Mulholland

Our health service is in a state of crisis. One after another emergency departments have had to close their doors to patients in recent weeks and months. Northern Ireland has the longest waiting lists in […]

Health

Eating disorders scandal grows

June 21, 2021 Alice Richardson

Every fifty-two minutes somebody dies of an eating disorder, proving eating disorders to have the highest mortality rate of any other recognised psychiatric illness. In the last decade we have seen people within lower and […]

Health

CervicalCheck Scandal – Health Service Failing Women

March 8, 2021 Sarah Zanchetta

It’s important to take into account on International Women’s Day the misogyny that exists in a capitalist society in terms of healthcare and specifically the Irish healthcare system which is criminally underfunded and has been […]

Ireland-South

Interview with a healthcare worker

August 2, 2020 Interview with a healthcare worker

Militant Left spoke to healthcare worker Kelly about how the pandemic has affected her and other workers. 1. How were you affected by the pandemic as a healthcare worker? I had to isolate myself from […]

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  • Senegal: Political crisis against a backdrop of a major economic crisis July 29, 2026 Leïla Messaoudi, first published in the July-August edition of L’Égalité, paper of Gauche Révolutionnaire, French section of the Committee for a Workers International
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  • Germany: How should the Left Party respond to the electoral threat of the hard right AfD? July 22, 2026 Sascha Staničić, Sol (CWI in Germany)
  • 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War July 21, 2026 Hannah Sell (first published in The Socialist newspaper, 2009) and Peter Taaffe (first published by The Socialist, 2017)
  • China: The complex character of the state and the economy July 20, 2026 Philip Stott, first published in Socialism Today (issue 299 July/August 2026) monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
  • General strikes in Portugal see off assault on workplace conditions and union rights July 16, 2026 Caspar Loettgers, Sol (CWI Germany)
  • Chile under José Antonio Kast’s government; contradictions of Chilean capitalism July 14, 2026 Hugo Rodriquez (Socialismo Revolucionario - CWI Chile)
  • Graz City Council election: Communist Party of Austria increases vote to 35.7% July 11, 2026 CWI
  • Youth and Student Anti-War Assembly held in Cologne July 10, 2026 Becca Bayman, delegate to the assembly and Liverpool Socialist Students
  • Latin America’s class struggle intensifies July 8, 2026 Celso Calfullan, CIT (CWI) in Chile

Workplace news

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    January 17, 2026
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    November 16, 2025
  • Shorts: nationalisation under workers control is best way to save Northern Ireland’s aerospace industry
    May 19, 2025

Ireland – South

  • A socialist alternative needed to survive climate change
    July 16, 2026
  • Workers and youth rally against far right and racist riots 
    June 17, 2026
  • Racism, Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in Ireland
    June 16, 2026
  • Militant Left Statement on killing of Yves Sakila
    May 19, 2026
  • Fuel Protests: First Iran War Shocks Start to Hit
    April 10, 2026

Ireland – North

  • A socialist alternative needed to survive climate change
    July 16, 2026
  • Workers and youth rally against far right and racist riots 
    June 17, 2026
  • How Do We End the Violence?
    June 14, 2026
  • Militant left condemns far-right terror
    June 10, 2026
  • Dunmurry bomb: a self-defeating dead end
    May 5, 2026
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