Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Trade unions must fight the property tax

Trade unions have to take a stand against the property tax. This is an austerity tax being brought in for no other reason than to fund the ongoing bailout of bondholders . It will tip thousands of families into poverty. How can

Jan 13, 2013

Economy

Starbucks pays 35k tax in five years, Google 0.14% tax…

The disgracefully nominal amounts of corporation tax being paid by some of the largest multinationals (MNCs) based in Ireland have come to the forefront of the news in recent months. The right-wing rag The Irish Independent even has had to adopt headlines

Jan 11, 2013

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AC Milan players take a stand against racism

AC Milan midfielder Kevin Prince Boateng took his own stand against racism on Thursday 3rd January when he refused to play on after receiving racist abuse from Pro Patria fans.

Jan 9, 2013

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EU Presidency: A government of austerity driving it across Europe

The boast by Enda Kenny that Ireland’s presidency of the European council is one of “a country of recovery driving a recovery across Europe” is empty rhetoric. Working and middle class people are not feeling Kenny’s ‘recovery’ , with 2012 marking the

Jan 7, 2013

World News

Greece: ‘Initiative 1000’ – An ambitious move on the Greek Left

Xekinima (Socialist Party sister organisation in Greece) plays a central role in an initiative to bring together different forces from the Greek Left to fight for a united front, based primarily around SYRIZA, (radical left coalition party) the highest polling opposition Left

Jan 4, 2013

Joe Higgins column

Austerity 2013 must be met with mass organised resistance

As another year draws to an end and the next appears on the horizon, social and political activists will try to analyse the significance of what has passed and sketch the rough contours of what lies ahead. The truth is that, while

Dec 30, 2012

The North

Flags controversy – a socialist view

The political establishment have portrayed 2012 as somewhat of a turning point for Northern Ireland, with society moving beyond the old sectarian divisions – we have been told this is ‘our time, our place’. As if to mock the chic advertising campaigns,

Dec 17, 2012

Latest·News & Analysis

The Socialist Party & the political position & operation of the ULA

The Socialist Party initiated the United Left Alliance along with the Workers and Unemployed Action Group (WUAG) and the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA), just over two years ago. In recent months the problem of the ULA’s slow progress has been added

Dec 14, 2012

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Budget continues war on workers, unemployed & students

Speaking at a press conference convened this morning in response to the Budget, Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins said: "The draconian proposals for the attempted implementation of the new Property Tax have the stamp of a Troika dictat and verge on a

Dec 6, 2012

World News

Greece: The menace of Golden Dawn

Greece has a proud anti-fascist history and yet, in 2012, a neo-fascist party, Golden Dawn, won 7% of the vote (over 400,000 votes), and 18 members of parliament. Even in villages that had been wiped out by the Nazis in the second

Dec 3, 2012

Solidarity

Trade unions must fight the property tax

Starbucks pays 35k tax in five years, Google 0.14% tax…

AC Milan players take a stand against racism

EU Presidency: A government of austerity driving it across Europe

Greece: ‘Initiative 1000’ – An ambitious move on the Greek Left

Austerity 2013 must be met with mass organised resistance

Flags controversy – a socialist view

The Socialist Party & the political position & operation of the ULA

Budget continues war on workers, unemployed & students

Greece: The menace of Golden Dawn

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden