Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Ulster Bank cuts, closures & repossessions – unions need to act

On 2 July Ulster Bank announced another wave of branch closures and job losses as well as indicating they will be taking steps to repossess more properties. In the coming period all the banks will be implementing similar plans.

Jul 4, 2013

World News

Egypt: Huge protests demand the fall of Mursi

Mohammed Mursi’s first anniversary as president of Egypt was marked by even bigger demonstrations than brought about the downfall of Hosni Mubarak in January 2011. According to military and interior ministry sources, enormous numbers, anywhere from 14 to 17 million people, protested

Jul 2, 2013

Uncategorized

Merkel’s & Irish establishment’s gross hypocrisy over Anglo tapes

The rage is justified. Of ordinary people that is, upon hearing the Anglo Bank audio tapes from 2008 in which is evident the bankers’callous disregard as their reckless practices had the bank teetering on a precipice and their hands were out to

Jul 1, 2013

Economy

Debt crunch intensifies China’s crisis

World financial markets have been rocked again in recent days. First came the US Fed’s announcement last Wednesday (19 June) that it could start to unwind its cheap credit policy of ‘quantitative easing’ by year-end. The following day financial markets were stunned

Jun 27, 2013

Equality

LGBTQ liberation in the US – more than putting a ring on it

Forty-four years ago at a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, a group of transsexuals, cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbians, and gay men fought back against their constant persecution by the New York Police Department and inadvertently started the modern fight

Jun 27, 2013

Uncategorized

70 anti-austerity candidates join election slate

The successful implementation of the property tax is a Pyrrhic victory for the government. It comes at enormous political expense, particularly for Labour.

Jun 24, 2013

Economy

Bag men for the banks

The one section of the the establishment which has so far escaped scot-free are the auditing firms, in particular the “Big 4”, KPMG, PWC, Ernst & Young and Deloitte. These firms gave a clean bill of health to the banks as late

Jun 24, 2013

Uncategorized

New law fails – struggle needed for abortion rights

In a recent Irish Times poll 75% of voters have voiced their support for the government’s new legislation on abortion. However, this legislation is extremely limited and falls far short of what is needed and what there is a demand for in

Jun 21, 2013

Uncategorized

A breach of trust – children’s needs before profits

The nation watched in horror as the shocking truth about what happens behind closed doors at our privately owned crèches unfolded on Prime Time. Disturbing images of children being mistreated have enraged parents up and down the country, and all for some

Jun 19, 2013

Workplace News

Vote No to Haddington Road

The Haddington Road agreement is a capitulation by the right wing union leaders to the government’s and the Troika’s austerity agenda.

Jun 19, 2013

Solidarity

Ulster Bank cuts, closures & repossessions – unions need to act

Egypt: Huge protests demand the fall of Mursi

Merkel’s & Irish establishment’s gross hypocrisy over Anglo tapes

Debt crunch intensifies China’s crisis

LGBTQ liberation in the US – more than putting a ring on it

70 anti-austerity candidates join election slate

Bag men for the banks

New law fails – struggle needed for abortion rights

A breach of trust – children’s needs before profits

Vote No to Haddington Road

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden