Public sector strike – a premature suspension, but the fight isn’t over
Solidarity TD, Ruth Coppinger and Solidarity Councillor, Kate Relihan on the picket lines in Dublin 15.
Debate: Trade unions and the Assembly parties
Kerry Fleck, a trade union official sent us a letter in reply to Stephen Boyd’s article in The Socialist, "Trade unions & Sinn Fein: Dangerous times". here we publish Kerry’s article alongside a reply from Stephen.
A new working class voice emerges
The AAA is building a new left alternative for working class people.
AAA support bus workers strike against privatisation
Labour Party support for NTA stance ‘a disgrace’ Anti Austerity Alliance TDs Joe Higgins, Ruth Coppinger and Paul Murphy have issued the following statement on the bus strikes: “The NTA’s decision to franchise out 10% of Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus routes
The assault on public services continues
By Diana O’Dwyer After almost seven years of austerity, public services are at breaking point. Cuts in capital expenditure on housing of 84% have left 100,000 households on the housing list and spending per college student has been slashed 41%. These are
Vote Yes to Marriage Equality!
The Radical Yes Campaign: Fighting for full equality & against discrimination
How we can make non-payment a reality
Organising a non-payment campaign in working class communities
The battle against water charges & building a new left movement
How can a new voice for the working class be built.
Why we need a left government
By Laura Fitzgerald Austerity is a one-sided class war. The politicians hand in hand with the major employers have waged a war on the pay, conditions and living standards of the broad working class through swingeing cuts to public sector pay and
Water charges: Why non-payment is essential
By Kevin McLoughlin “If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.” It is meaningless to oppose to the water charges, but then to pay them. Your “protest” will be ignored and the government will have successfully robbed
Boycotting water charges – “not the Sinn Féin position”
By Laura Fitzgerald When Anti Austerity Alliance and Socialist Party TDs proposed a motion in the Dáil for a massive boycott to force the abolition of water charges, this is how Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams, responded: “[T]he motion also calls for