Campaigns & Issues- Page 5

Limerick: Save ‘Boro Park’ – defend community shared spaces

Fight for permanent public housing for all Well over 150 people showed up to Our Lady Queen of Peace School in Janesboro last Wednesday evening for a meeting with the Mayor of Limerick, John Moran, who has proposed a plan to install

Mar 30, 2026

Campaigns & Issues·Comment & Other·Equality·Featured Articles

Pride 2014: Step up the fight for full equality

The huge change of attitudes in Ireland to LGBTQ people which has taken place over the last decades has been clearly shown this year.

Jun 27, 2014

Campaigns & Issues

Passing of Housing Bill will kick 50,000 families off Housing Waiting Lists

The Housing Bill which will be voted on today is one of the most regressive and anti-social pieces of legislation introduced by this or any government.

Jun 26, 2014

Campaigns & Issues·Health

Medical card debacle – free healthcare for all!

“An attempt to improve the medical card system, to bring fairness and equity to the system” is the justification spewed by Health Minister James Reilly following the government’s announcement that 15,300 discretionary medical cards callously revoked from the most vulnerable will be

Jun 25, 2014

Campaigns & Issues·Equality·Socialist Feminism

#YesAllWomen Twitter storm shows millions are ready to fight back against sexism

The misogynistic massacre of Santa Barbara, California is yet another horrific expression of a society that is based on the constant oppression of women. However, this expression of hatred also triggered a massive backlash. A storm of tweets around the Twitter hashtag

May 30, 2014

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

Labour right to be in a panic over Water Tax as electoral slaughter looms

The Labour Party is in an obvious panic over water charges looming large as the Local and European Elections approach. They are right to be. Labour's infamous 'Tesco' Ad during the 2011 General Election Campaign specifically named a Fine Gael water tax

Apr 16, 2014

Campaigns & Issues·Health

Grandiose promises of ‘better and cheaper’ single-tier health care system are a sham

Responding to the government's white paper advocating universal health insurance, Conor Mac Liam, husband of Susie Long and Anti Austerity Alliance candidate in the upcoming local elections in Kilkenny said:

Apr 3, 2014

Campaigns & Issues·Environment

90 corporations responsible for two thirds of global emissions

Individualizing the cause of climate change will only conceal the truth. A study published in the journal Climate Change indicated that since the dawn of the Industrial Era just 90 companies have caused two thirds of all man-made global warming emissions. All

Apr 2, 2014

Campaigns & Issues

State must build public housing

Despite more than 289,000 vacant dwellings in Census 2011, there is the most serious housing crisis seen in this country for decades. Few of these vacant properties are being turned over to the state. Many are being deliberately held onto by developers,

Mar 25, 2014

Anti-Water Charges·Campaigns & Issues

Open forum: Fighting the water tax & austerity

First they asked us to pay for the crisis, now they are asking us to pay for the “recovery”! Hardly a day goes by without some new announcement in the media about economic recovery. But rather than seizing the so-called recovery to

Mar 20, 2014

Campaigns & Issues·Equality

NUIG students smash homophobia on campus

The week of a college referendum on whether or not the Students' Union should support gay marriage has seen hundreds of NUI Galway students take a stand against anti-LGBTQ bigotry and fear-mongering. Last Wednesday, hundreds of students crowded around an anti-gay marriage

Mar 14, 2014

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