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Water charges: Mass non-payment is key to victory

By David Vallely With the New Year upon us, a new phase in the water charges struggle has begun. It is clear that the Government intends to wait out the anger and hopes that momentum will drip from the movement now that

Jan 27, 2015

News & Analysis

Joe Higgins on the politics of right-wing populism

By Joe Higgins TD A General Election looms. It cannot be delayed beyond April of next year. However, with mass mobilisations against water charges and austerity, the Fine Gael/Labour Coalition government was shown to have clumsy feet of clay and there is

Jan 27, 2015

Campaigns & Issues·Health·Latest·News & Analysis

The deadly legacy of health cuts

By Michael O’Brien Back in August I was given a glimpse of the developing crisis situation in Beaumont Hospital when at the invitation of a member of staff I was taken on a tour pointing out the various stresses the system was

Jan 26, 2015

Blog from Athens: Paul Murphy on Syriza victory

The ideological wall saying ‘There Is No Alternative’ to austerity has been decisively breached. In so doing, they have blown a breath of fresh air across Europe – giving hope in Ireland, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere that the austerity nightmare can be

Jan 25, 2015

World News

Greece: Prospect of Syriza victory raises workers’ hopes

It’s generally accepted here and internationally that Syriza will win. In the last week there is a small increase for Syriza in the opinion polls – of about 1%. Really this is a stabilisation of Syriza’s lead. Including abstentions, Syriza’s support stands

Jan 21, 2015

Economy·News & Analysis

Obscene wealth: Richest 1% owns 48% of world’s wealth

The Oxfam report on global wealth distribution which has been published this month exposes the massive wealth inequality which exists today, and the poverty which the vast majority of the world’s population lives in.

Jan 19, 2015

Greece: Towards a Syriza government?

Interview with Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI in Greece)

Jan 9, 2015

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

Agreeing Not To Agree, Again – The Stormont House Agreement

By Michael Cleary On December 23rd the five Executive parties and the British and Irish governments signed off on the “Stormont House Agreement”. The Agreement came at the end of eleven weeks of intense negotiations which concluded with 30 hours of continuous

Jan 6, 2015

Latest·News & Analysis

The movement from below – working class self-organisation

In the last six years, austerity was imposed without the same level of protest as took place in other countries. Working class people were reeling from the shock of the recession and, of course, given no lead by the union leadership. Now,

Dec 15, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues

Leaking of Water Charge Protest video to Irish Independent poses serious questions – who leaked it & to whom?

Paul Murphy TD for the Anti-Austerity Alliance has responded to the leaking of a video to the Irish Independent and said that it posed questions as to who leaked it and to whom it was leaked:

Dec 13, 2014

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