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.
SR Technics – Workers should occupy and demand re nationalisation
Statement from Joe HigginsAs venture capitalists seal their plan to smash 1,150 jobs at SR Technics by selling off the Landing Gear and Auxiliary Power Unit, the Irish Government and trade union leadership are in a state of pathetic paralysis. They simply
Call for government to be punished
Socialist Party launch election campaign Socialist Party Pledge to resist Fianna Fail/Green Party Cuts Which Will Wreck Local Services. Call for FiannaFail/Greens To Be Punished For Policy Of making Ordinary People Pay For Crisis. The savage programme of cuts in public expenditure
Joe Higgins – OECD Implies Newly Employed Should Be Pauperised
Creation of Reserve Army of Very Cheap Labour the Aim The paper Activation Policies in Ireland presented by the OECD to today 's ESRI Conference in Dublin strongly implies that benefits should be cut for the unemployed. The thrust of the paper
Northern Ireland – Returning to sectarian conflict?
By Gary Mulcahy THE AFTERMATH of the recent killings of two soldiers at Massereene barracks in Antrim and of a PSNI officer in Lurgan in March has demonstrated the fragility of the peace process. In recent years, the various dissident republican groups
Joe Higgins for Europe
THE EUROPEAN Election on 5 June is a brilliant opportunity for working people in Dublin to deliver a massive blow against the Fianna Fail/ Green Party government which is saddling them with savage burdens to pay for the crimes of the swindling
Great Gas Give-away
Tax hikes and cuts while government gives away €540 billion for free! By Paul Murphy WHILE THE government puts the boot into ordinary people in another vicious budget, the giveaway of billions of euro of gas continues. Figures from the Department of
Budget Dole Cut: Government Cancel’s Christmas
By Helen Redwood “THERE’S NO way of preparing for Christmas, that bonus is actually Christmas”. This reaction from one single parent spells out what the Scrooge-like scrapping of the Christmas bonus will mean for the 1.3 million people previously eligible. Minister Lenihan’s
Action not “social solidarity” will defeat budget attacks
By Stephen Boyd COMMENTING ON the aftermath of the budget, Stephen Collins political editor of The Irish Times said: “This year the silence has been eerie, mainly because the large body of PAYE workers who are being hammered by the budget have
Deflationary budget will cost jobs and fuel recession
By Kevin McLoughlin AT THE start of his speech, Brian Lenihan talked about taking from each according to their means. It sounded as if he was just to about to quote Karl Marx. Alas, very quickly it became clear that he was
Budget: €90 billion bailout for the super rich
By Michael Murphy IN A graphic validation to the old adage “one law for the rich and one for the poor”, the decision of the Fianna Fail/Green Party government to buy the bad debts from the Irish banks for up to €90