Water charges battle- Page 2

Oppose water charges through the back door

By Conor Burke From 1 July, Irish Water is seeking to implement excessive-use water charges of up to €500 per year. This will come as no great surprise to those of us who highlighted the programme for government agreed between Fianna Fáil

Jul 17, 2019

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Water charges battle

Joe Higgins TD on new legislation and water charges

“Householders who refuse to pay water bills will have charges deducted from wages or dole”, screamed the Irish Independent in early May in response, no doubt, to a behind the scenes briefing from Government officials. We are getting used to these types

Jun 3, 2015

News & Analysis·Uncategorized·Water charges battle

How we can make non-payment a reality

Organising a non-payment campaign in working class communities

Apr 21, 2015

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Water charges battle

The battle against water charges & building a new left movement

How can a new voice for the working class be built.

Apr 20, 2015

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Water charges battle

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

Apr 18, 2015

News & Analysis·Water charges battle

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

Apr 18, 2015

Featured Articles·Joe Higgins column·News & Analysis·Special Features·Water charges battle

Profiteering from an essential element of life

By Joe Higgins TD Put the words “profiting from Water” into any internet search engine and hundreds of sites immediately present themselves. Business media like Bloomberg and Forbes and countless “investment analysts” purport to advise the reader on how the most essential

Apr 16, 2015

News & Analysis·Water charges battle

Bin Your Bills Protest- April 18th

· Bin Your Bills Protest– Dozens of campaigns committed to boycott launch major demo for April 18th · Non-Payment Network Appeal campaign groups, community groups & activists to get posters & leaflets into every ‘city, town, village & rural area’ in the

Apr 1, 2015

News & Analysis·Water charges battle

No jailings, No arrests…. End political policing!

By Cllr. Michael O’Brien Sharp lessons have been learnt by anti-water charges campaigners in the course of the last six months about the role of the repressive arm of the state (Gardai, judiciary and prisons) when it comes to curbing effective protest

Mar 4, 2015

Previous 1 2