Covid and Class Struggle in Ireland's Meat Plants

Date: Sun, 2020-09-20 11:25

A fresh outbreak of Covid 19 in a meat plant in Waterford this week brings to a total of 44 the number of clusters in meat plants across the State in the past 6 months, or some 1,600 confirmed cases of the virus. One cluster is unfortunate, two might be carelessness, but forty-four is capitalism. The sustained outbreaks of COVID 19 in Ireland’s meat plants reveal how the meat industry and its management really operate on the basis of unchecked power and exploitation. And that’s a problem for us all. 

 

Photo: Standing room only. Meat plant workers on the 6am bus to work in Waterford.

Credit: @Deisesupes

 

 
 
 

THE OPPRESSED CLASSES RISE UP AGAINST RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION

Date: Sun, 2020-07-12 12:37
 
The murder of George Floyd in the United States by the police has unleashed a wave of popular outrage in that country and throughout the world. Massive demonstrations, direct action against the police and in response to repression have been common these past weeks. This murder, adding to thousands of others, revives the widespread protests of 2014 in the United States, following the many murders of black people, especially youth.

Wave of protests in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter 6th June

Date: Sun, 2020-06-14 18:33

Today in Dublin, there were three solidarity protests with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United (Disunited) States.

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