Oppose IMF/EU/Govt austerity budget
Build for a One day general strike The Fianna Fail/Green Party Government, in alliance with the IMF and the EU, has declared war on working people and the unemployed.
Super rich gain – poorest pay
Minister Lenihan must explain scandal of company directors earning €500,000 gaining €7,700 in Budget while the lowest paid workers lose up to €,2000
Will Labour and Fine Gael commit to repealing the minimum wage reduction?
"This government has absolutely no legitimacy. It has no authority to impose the cuts and tax hikes on working people and the unemployed that we have seen in yesterday's budget. It has perpetrated this savage attack on ordinary people only a matter
United Left Alliance launched at packed rally
Despite record breaking atrocious weather some 350 - 400 people, for many their first political meeting, packed out the ballroom of the Gresham Hotel for the launch of the United Left Alliance.
One demo is not enough
Start a campaign of industrial action with a one day general strike before the Budget Another €15 billion in cuts and tax increases will just make this disaster even worse. ICTU says the “National Recovery Programme” will cause another 90,000 job losses.
Joe Higgins walks out over Rehn’s insistence on the confidentiality of discussion
Socialist Party MEP, Joe Higgins, refused to participate in a meeting between Irish MEPs and the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn. MEP Higgins left the meeting after Mr Rehn stated he would only share essential information if all the MEPs
Oppose the IMF/EU backed attacks
Sunday 21 November, the day the Irish government formally applied for a bailout to the EU and IMF, should be marked as the day that the Irish capitalist class were exposed as a rotten, despicable failure, bankrupt in every sense and incapable
Election in January? Don’t wait – sack this government now!
The cynical posturing of the Green Party in calling for a January General Election for ´the good of the country´ will not save it from annihilation when the Irish people go to vote.
“Back street” abortion drug risk
This past summer, Ireland’s Crisis Pregnancy Programme announced in its annual report that the number of Irish women travelling abroad for abortions is falling. In 2010 some 4,422 women gave Irish addresses at UK abortion clinics compared to 6,673 in 2001.
IMF / EU Commission – Here As Agents For Financial Market Vampires
Simply put, the IMF, EU Commission and ECB are in Dublin today to carry out the dictats of the economic vampires in the Financial Markets. These faceless, unelected and unaccountable speculators seeking mega profits on the backs of working people have orchestrated
Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity
Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden
