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.
Cynical betrayal of Irish people
Opening today’s press conference Cllr Clare Daly, Socialist Party and ULA candidate for Dublin North said: “Fine Gael and the Labour Party correctly say that the Fianna Fail minority government, a) doesn't have the confidence of the Dail; b) has a Taoiseach
General Election Challenge of United Left Alliance Strengthens
The challenge of the United Left Alliance to the right wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in the looming General Election.
The socialist alternative to right-wing, sectarian politics
Socialist Party Statement November 2010
Quantitative easing: Plan B – will it work?
In a desperate move to boost US growth, the Federal Reserve has launched QE2, a second round of quantitative easing. Its main effect will be to devalue the dollar, an attempt to boost its exports at the expense of its rivals, particularly
Northern Ireland: Assembly parties agree on CUTS, CUTS, CUTS
The cuts are coming – and the parties in the Assembly are not standing in their way – they have agreed that they will implement them, not oppose them. One after another, all the parties in the Assembly Executive are queueing up
Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe
Climate Change is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says.
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.
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.
Austerity will fail
The Government and opposition parties have signed up to reducing the budget deficit to 3% by 2014. The government has now settled on the figure of €15 billion in cuts over the course of four years in order to achieve this stated