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Limerick AAA Statement on City of Culture

Call for new, representative committee to run City of Culture events Focus should be celebrating local artists and culture, not corporate ‘rebranding’ Committee should be made up of representatives of the artistic community, cultural groups and broader Limerick public Limerick City East

Jan 6, 2014

Introducing our new site

Welcome to our new Socialist Party website. We are archiving our old website and launching socialistparty.ie.

Jan 5, 2014

Environment·News & Analysis

Environment: Profit-fuelled global warming

To develop a carbon-neutral global economy, economic and political power must be taken out of the hands of the ‘noxious 90’, writes Manny Thain. Predictably, empty words were all that came out of the UN-sponsored climate talks in Warsaw – the 19th

Jan 5, 2014

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Review: Christmas 1914 – when troops stopped fighting

[author ]Jimmy Haddow is an activist with the Socialist Party Scotland, CWI. This article was first published in Socialism Today.[/author] A small antidote to the misinformation about World War One the ruling class will unleash. We are on the cusp of the

Jan 3, 2014

World News

2014: Another year of mass struggles bekons

Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party of England and Wales reviews the developments and events of 2013 worldwide, and discusses further struggles in 2014 and the development of the workers’ movement.

Jan 2, 2014

Comment & Other

Landlords enriched by government propping up private rent sector

Market Solutions to housing crisis have failed – programme of affordable state provided accommodation to buy or rent is needed Responding to the figures made available today showing the extent to which the landlord class continue to be enriched by rent supplement

Jan 2, 2014

Economy·Featured Articles·Paul Murphy Column

This “Ireland as a success story” rhetoric is based on empty spin

In 1984, George Orwell gave us a perfect description of the rhetoric of the Irish government, the European Commission and their hangers-on when promoting Ireland’s bailout exit. He defined doublethink: “To tell deliberate lies, while genuinely believing in them, to forget any

Dec 16, 2013

Economy·Paul Murphy Column

Bailout ‘exit’: a return to sovereignty or Troika rule by another name?

With the government preparing to milk the 15 December 'exit' from the bailout, hyperbole is being heaped upon hyperbole to welcome the 'return of sovereignty' to Ireland. The government, and in particular the Labour Party, want to use this supposed success story

Dec 13, 2013

Economy

Southern Irish economy – analysis & perspectives

Caution is necessary when investigating figures for the economic situation in Ireland. There are economic vested interests at work that benefit from spinning every scrap of positive news. The media fully assist this and try to manufacture a mood or belief that

Dec 9, 2013

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues·Featured Articles·Uncategorized

Property & water taxes – What’s needed now to fight austerity?

As the property tax is set to double and water charges are being prepared, Cllr Ruth Coppinger looks back over the campaign against the property tax and on the type of campaign needed now to fight austerity.

Dec 6, 2013

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