There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Women at the forefront of the struggle for peace
Communist Party of Ireland Statement on International Working Women’s Day 2025
People in the centre of Dublin take part in a march to mark International Women's Day, March 8, 2023
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
IT WAS March 8 in 1917, in the midst of World War I, when women workers took to the streets with the cry of “Peace, Land and Bread” and began the process of the Russian Revolution.
Women have since remained at the forefront of the anti-war struggle, here in Ireland and across the globe. This International Working Women’s Day, the Communist Party of Ireland salutes all women involved in anti-imperialist struggle, and particularly the anti-war movements.
As the crisis of capitalism deepens, so too does the exploitation of women in the home and the workplace. When almost 25 per cent of Irish women workers are low-wage earners, the rising costs of childcare and the loss of wages to inflation bites very hard at home.
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