Anti-Water Charges

Mass movement defeated water charges before and will defeat them again

Press Statement: Paul Murphy TD (Solidarity) 10 June 2019 €500 excessive usage water charges are Trojan Horse for future charges for all Mass movement defeated water charges before and will defeat them again “The news that Irish Water is seeking to charge

Jun 13, 2019

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues·News & Analysis·Water charges battle

How the protest movement & boycott forced the suspension of water charges

The Fine Gael minority government was forced to suspend water charges. Michael O’Brien argues that this is a result of the protest movement that emerged in late 2014, the subsequent mass boycott of the charge and the fundamental weakness of this right-wing

Aug 8, 2016

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues·Latest

‘Gardaí score another own goal’ with 4 more Jobstown arrests

Four more people have been arrested in relation to the Jobstown protest which saw Paul Murphy TD arrested yesterday.

Feb 10, 2015

Anti-Water Charges·Latest·News & Analysis

Free the Jobstown 4!

Blatant political policing will fail to stem the impending mass boycott of bills

Feb 9, 2015

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues

Leaking of Water Charge Protest video to Irish Independent poses serious questions – who leaked it & to whom?

Paul Murphy TD for the Anti-Austerity Alliance has responded to the leaking of a video to the Irish Independent and said that it posed questions as to who leaked it and to whom it was leaked:

Dec 13, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues

Paul Murphy TD: Outrageous that 19 year old could face criminal record for silly mistake in Jobstown

Part of politicised policing aimed at damaging anti-water charges movement

Dec 8, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues

Shocking Garda violence against legitimate protests

As the anti-water charges struggle has unfolded over the last three months, a very significant number of working class people have drawn radical conclusions about the role of the Garda Siochana.

Dec 6, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues·Latest·News & Analysis

Water Charges protest in Jobstown: Our answer to Leo Varadkar

After 6 years of savage austerity and bullying, ordinary people are fighting back and you better listen!

Nov 16, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues

AAA Cllr Michael O’Brien: “Will Minister condemn Garda violence?”

Anti-Austerity Alliance Responds to Minister Varadkar’s ‘sinister fringe’ comments. How much further are the government prepared to go to implement water charge in face of mass opposition?

Nov 6, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues

Mass non-payment can bury this charge

This government is in trouble on the issue of the water charges and now they know it. 1 million unreturned forms will all add to a sense of frenzied panic in the corridors of Leinster House. They fear that this massive revolt

Oct 31, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Featured Articles·Joe Higgins column·Special Features

Joe Higgins on how water charges were beaten in 1996

In December 1996, the now Labour Party Minister for Public Expenditure, Brendan Howlin – at that time Minister for the Environment in a Fine Gael/Labour Coalition government – announced the national abolition of Water Charges. This was a huge victory for the

Sep 25, 2014

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