Connolly Youth Movement
Our newest issue of Forward focuses on how the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted intricately the contradictions facing modern capitalism – and potential of the socialist response. Read the online version at the link attached.
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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.
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New Zealand’s reaction to COVID-19 has been lauded by many voices in the media, but on closer examination, its stimulus package serves the same function at the core of neoliberal economics – the transfer of wealth from the people to businesses and landlords.
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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.
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Faced with the establishment of workers’ democracy across the globe, alongside growing socialist movements in their own countries, the West took drastic measures. It redistributed a tiny portion of its super-profits, amassed through bloody imperialist exploitation, to smother the class interests of the Western working class with moderate material concessions.
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Social democracy relies on Imperialism to generate profits and export poverty to the developing world while reaping the rewards gained from exploiting entire nations.
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Self proclaimed socialists such as Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Corbyn have seen moderate success in electoral politics which has opened up a space for socialists to introduce their ideas to a much larger audience.
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Now more than ever, a communist response is needed – one that will transcend the false dichotomy of economic stability vs. human life and protect workers’ livelihoods while defeating the virus.
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Almost 30 years after the fall of the USSR, it’s become quite clear that our welfare state was little more than pacifying piecemeal for the masses of Europe and the US – the Covid-19 Pandemic has placed all eyes on this reality.
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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.
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