COVID-19 – CYM

Capitalism and Conspiracies

May 16, 2021July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments conspiracies, Contributions, Covid19, Opinion, vaccines

When conspiracy theorists try to boil power relations down to one or two individuals who control daily events, Marxists instead point to the economic structure which produces these roles and how they function in a class dynamic which allows political control to be maintained. With power over the process of wealth accumulation via the exploitation of labour playing a key part in how this is achieved. This is contrasted with the rather story-like narrative that conspiracies tend to weave. The convenience that conspiracy theorists enjoy is in not having to engage in a radical critique of society but instead to use an almost atavistic fear to whip the public into a frenzy.

China COVID-19 Events Health

Quarantining in China: An interview with an Irish emigrant

April 23, 2021July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments China, Contributions, Covid, Foreign Affairs, interview, Quarantine, Travel

“It is hard to watch things back home and see how they should be done, and how they could be done. Its not rocket science. The people and the party go hand in hand, and people do see the benefit of doing these things and that’s why they’re happy to do it”

China COVID-19 Events Forward Health Ireland Irish Society

Shutting the Stable Door – 11 Months too Late

April 21, 2021July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments China, covid-19, Current Affairs, Fianna Fáil, fine gael, international

The government has completely dropped the ball in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and pursued a reactive, rather than a proactive strategy. This is in marked contrast to the country at the epicentre of the pandemic: China

Anti-Imperialism COVID-19

“The working class can see the blood and sweat they and their children shed”: Interview With a Balkan Communist

March 1, 2021July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments balkans, Contributions, covid-19, Foreign Affairs, international, interview, yugoslavia

Thirty years after the start of the Yugoslav Wars, Balkan communists declare: “The working class is not stupid. It is not a thing to be thrown around… The working class can see the blood and sweat they and their children shed…. More and more working class people are becoming consciously revolutionary.”

COVID-19 Forward Statements

Dublin Bar Still Doesn’t Understand the Problem After Comparing the Lockdown to a Genocide

May 19, 2020July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments Covid19, Editorial, Unions, WWII

‘We’ve had our pubs, gigs & festivals taken from us. We’re like the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto being told to hop on the train to Auschwitz’

COVID-19 Forward

Angajat român pe salariul minim în Dublin, mort din cauza COVID-19

May 18, 2020July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments Covid19, Current Affairs, healthcare

Soția lui, Mirela, internată tot din cauza COVID-19 a spus “Nu știu cum voi trăi fără el”. Dorel Giurcă, în vârstă de 53 de ani, a murit din cauza COVID-19 pe 8 mai. Câștiga 10.80 euro pe oră ca om de serviciu în spitalul St James din Dublin.

COVID-19 Education Forward

No, a Pandemic is Not Good for the Environment

April 4, 2020July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments Climate Crisis, Contributions, Covid19, Current Affairs, Environment

Some are calling the crisis a ‘cleanse’ of the planet, that because it disproportionately affects older people, it’s the Earth’s revenge against ‘boomers’ and that humanity really needed to ‘check itself’ or let the planet breathe.

Campaigns COVID-19 Forward Irish Society

Name & Shame – The Companies Who Fired Their Staff During a Pandemic UPDATED 13.04

March 16, 2020July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 57 Comments Covid19, Current Affairs, healthcare

Ireland is internationally labeled as a corporate tax haven. Apple owes the 26 county state 13bn. These profits have been made by these tax breaks and now it’s the Irish people who again have to pick up the pieces as they fire their workers at the first opportunity.

COVID-19 Education

If Coronavirus Was to Wipe Us Out, We’d Probably Never See It Coming

March 3, 2020July 19, 2021 CYM Committee 0 Comments Contributions, healthcare, Media

Complex subjects, particularly those of a scientific or political nature, are most commonly sensationalised. So much so that we end up with a Media Who Cried Wolf situation. When every trending disease around winter time is looking to wipe out humanity, one that actually could, would be impossible to ever believe.