Winter 2020

Special feature: What the health?

• It doesn’t have to be this way: Crisis in the care economy & the role of the state, by Jess Spear

• A system in permanent crisis, by Diana O’Dwyer

• Mental health epidemic, by Kay Keane

• The right to transition: Trans healthcare in Ireland, by Roisín O’Shea

• Big pharma & the search for the vaccine, by Dave Murphy

• Severed: the metabolic rift between humans & nature, by Des Hennelly

• Down in the dumps, by Nicole McCarthy

• Habitat destruction, by Alan Horan

• Factory Farming, by Ross Davidson

• Here to stay: health workers have entered the arena of class struggle in Germany, by Daniel Behruzi

Features:

• Three meals deep: An interview with Fergal Anderson of Talamh Beo, by Des Hennelly

• Energy Vacuums: Data centres, renewable energy, & rural politics, by Patrick Brodie & Patrick Bresnihan

• ‘The world was ours to create’: an interview with Helena Sheehan, by Brian O’Cathail

• The struggle against fascism, by Clara Zetkin

What is to be done?

• Unifying a divided working class: the national question in Ireland, by Paul Murphy

• Off the sideline, by Diarmuid Flood

• Can we build a broad & pluralist party of the left? by Aprille Scully

Rupture Regulars

• Poking the angry beast: How do we know? by Jess Spear

• Lesser-spotted comrades: Claudia Jones, by Jess Spear

• Gaslighters, Ghouls, and Gobshites