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Socialist Party Statement November 2010
Scandal as taxpayer to hand over €7 million to developer for a school site
The news that the taxpayer will have to stump up over €7 million to a major developer for land for a secondary school at
45% VHI hikes show madness of for-profit health system
Minister Harney's mission was to open up the private healthcare market to competition because of future benefits to 'consumers' she promised.
Labour and Sinn Féin should not be taken seriously as representing a real left alternative
Yesterday's interview on RTE Radio One News reveals that Labour Party leader, Eamon Gilmore, believes that the most crucial issue in the forthcoming General
CWI 10th World Congress documents
The 10th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) was held in December 2010. It was attended by delegates and visitors
Indictment of the government’s record on combating poverty
The reported results of research by the philanthropic Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany which show that Ireland ranks among the worst in the western world
Labour in Irish History revisited
James Connolly was a great Marxist thinker and workers’ leader in Ireland, Scotland and the US. He was executed by the British state for
Quantitative easing: Plan B – will it work?
In a desperate move to boost US growth, the Federal Reserve has launched QE2, a second round of quantitative easing. Its main effect will