BY-election 2011: ULA is only opposition that can defeat the government parties
Dublin West By-election an opportunity for people to cast verdict on Fine Gael and Labour government of austerity and broken promises
US: OccupyTogether spreads – despite repression!
The oftentimes brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Chris Hedges summed things up: “The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread. They have their long phalanxes of police
United Left Alliance TDs call for release of Teresa Treacy
Will attend protest organised by supporters at ESB HQ in Stephen's Green today at 12pm noon
Socialist Party / United Left Alliance by-election challenge
A by election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Brian Lenihan is set for 27 October. The Socialist Party has selected Cllr Ruth Coppinger to contest it and will be undertaking a major campaign to win this seat.
‘Jobbridge’ is a scam
Looking for work? Good news- courtesy of the government's 'Jobbridge' scheme, there's all kinds of full-time opportunities on offer. The Corner Bakery in Terenure is looking for a Bakery Assistant. The Landsdowne Hotel in Ballsbridge is looking for waiting staff. Axa Assistance
Greek default and the end of the Eurozone?
A spectre haunts Europe – the spectre of a default by Greece, Greece's subsequent exit from the eurozone and a break up of the eurozone. All the signs – economically and politically – are that key sections of the European establishment are
Metro West vital for jobs and transport
Austerity madness must end
Government exposed with U-turn on burning bondholders
In June the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, was in Washington DC and held talks there with the International Monetary Fund and with the US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, on Ireland’s financial crisis.
Mortgage crisis: Government has no solution!
Right now in Ireland one in eight mortgages are in trouble. This represents 95,158 households which are in arrears or have already had their debt restructured. Of these mortgages in arrears 72% have been behind in payments for more than six months
America’s Strange Fruit: The Execution of Troy Davis
In 1939, Billie Holiday sang of blacks hanging from trees in the protest classic “Strange Fruit.” Since then, the means of racist execution have changed from extra-legal lynching to cold and calculated state murder, but the inherent cruelty of execution and the
Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity
Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden
