CYM Committee

OnlyFans & Sex Work – The Fastest Growing Industry of 2020

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Austerity, sex work

OnlyFans sees 75% surge of new sex workers during the lockdown. Bankers-son and digital pimp *cough cough* ‘entrepreneur’, Timothy Stokely, takes 20% of their income.

Education War

Frantz Fanon & Algeria’s Liberation Movement

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Africa, Revolution

In the same vein as many contemporary and later African socialists, Fanon saw a uniquely African situation that required a rethinking of orthodox Marxist analysis.

Culture Injustice Ireland Justice

The Worm at the Core – Apple’s Daylight Robbery

July 18, 2020July 19, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Apple, Austerity, EU, Tax, Working Class

Apple, among the world’s most profitable and valuable companies in the world, is given a free pass to avoid paying tax in Ireland

Campaigns Ireland

100 Days of the Debenhams Workers’ Dispute

July 18, 2020July 19, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Strike

They demonstrated the power that workers have– these are overwhelmingly women with children and 20+ years in the job, who are risking arrest and an injunction from KPMG, to fight for what they knew was correct and just.

Events

The Eve of Pride – A Radical, Virtual Conversation

July 5, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments education, queer

The grounding of queer organising in queer history is essential.

Culture Forward Injustice

Race, Jazz & Police Brutality

July 5, 2020August 12, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Music, racism, USA

The concept of being brutalised by police days after creating one of the most important works in music history was entirely surreal for white people, it was as if the Beatles were attacked days after releasing Abbey Road.

Education Forward

Nkrumah’s Liberation of Ghana from Britain

July 1, 2020August 12, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Africa, Anti-imperialism

‘Aid to a neo-colonial State is merely a revolving credit, paid by the neo-colonial State and returned to the neo-colonial master in the form of increased profits’

Injustice Ireland

China’s 10 Day Hospital vs Dublin’s Free-Market €2.4 Billion Disaster

June 11, 2020August 12, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments childcare, China, Dublin, healthcare

The Children’s’ Hospital will be built at some stage, but it will have lined the pockets of many different consultants, officials, developers, builders, contractors before it actually helps a single patient.

Statements Uncategorized

Ireland Stands with Minneapolis #BlackLivesMatter

May 30, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments USA

This is a tragedy, but it is no accident. It is part of the law enforcement and justice system in the United States, which dates back to slavery. It has maintained this system, and ethnic minorities are imprisoned and murdered in wild disproportion to population amounts.