MAVERICK CITIZEN: Covid-19 highlights the need for socioeconomic rights for those who need them the most

particularly women’s and minority rights in Ireland, and from 1969 to 1974 served as a parliamentarian. She is now the executive director of the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme ,McAliskey has been a champion for civil rights for over 50 years and is currently fighting against the exclusion of migrants in the UK from things like access to healthcare, jobs, food and shelter.

The message that was coming through, is that society cannot defeat the disease and then continue to participate in systems of social injustice that breed such pandemics. McAliskey said that as she looks around at the new generation of activists, she is concerned that they may not be drawing on past methods of organisation. What she saw as being on the rise is a culture of campaigning, particularly in the digital space, which she said is not the same as organising as it often lacks tangible and sustained impact.

“As community volunteers we have, to a certain extent, usurped the power from the people we want to work with,” said McAliskey. As a result of this, she asked, “to what degree have we been captured by the state unwittingly, by being part of usurping the communities’ power?”

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