Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

There is an alternative to the chaos of the market system

Roger Altman was the Deputy Finance Minister in the government of US President Bill Clinton in 1993/’94. He is now an investment banker and a member of the international big business think tank, The Bilderberg Group . Not a radical socialist then.

Jan 9, 2012

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2011: Turbulence, Crisis and Revolutions

Here Joe Higgins TD looks back on 2011 - a year marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in this country also.

Jan 3, 2012

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Household tax ‘no benefit’ to councils, Manager confirms

Fingal County Council's Finance Director has stated that the proposed Household Tax will be of "no benefit" to local councils as it goes "straight into the Local Government Fund". The categorical statement from Mr Pat Keane came when presenting Fingal's Annual Budget

Dec 20, 2011

Workplace News

Support the EBS workers

Today's action by the EBS workers deserves 100% support from workers and the unemployed. A clear distinction must be made between the obscene rewards still given to the senior management in Ireland’s banks and the hard won pay and conditions of the

Dec 20, 2011

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Threats to deduct household tax misleading & will be fought

Alarmist media headlines over the past week give the impression that €2,500 could easily be deducted from the wages and welfare payments of householders boycotting the registration and payment of the new household tax. In fact such legislation does not even exist

Dec 20, 2011

Latest·News & Analysis

Results of Socialist Party Xmas Raffle

Results are as follows:

Dec 20, 2011

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Mass campaign of non-payment only way to defeat regressive tax

The first three months of 2012 could turn out to be an historic period in the modern political and social life of this State. It could be when the quiet majority of the population takes a decisive stand against shouldering any more

Dec 20, 2011

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Household Tax: Don’t register, Don’t Pay!

The ink on the Household Tax legislation is not yet dry and already we have firm indications that this could be the issue that marks the real beginning of an active fightback by ordinary people up and down the country.

Dec 19, 2011