Anti-Austerity Alliance Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Jobstown trial: Organise to oppose criminalisation of protest

By Katia Hancke Two years ago, many working class communities ravaged by austerity demonstrated enough was enough and got out on the streets against water charges. One such community was Jobstown in Tallaght, where a spontaneous protest inconvenienced Joan Burton for a

Dec 1, 2016

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

How the protest movement & boycott forced the suspension of water charges

The Fine Gael minority government was forced to suspend water charges. Michael O’Brien argues that this is a result of the protest movement that emerged in late 2014, the subsequent mass boycott of the charge and the fundamental weakness of this right-wing

Aug 8, 2016

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Brexit vote is their crisis – workers’ rights must not be sacrificed

Never ones to waste a good crisis IBEC were quickly out of the traps after the Brexit vote claiming that the ensuing political and economic turmoil meant that bosses in Ireland needed support and in turn workers’ rights must come under the

Jul 15, 2016

News & Analysis·Water charges battle

Non-payment of water bills rises to 73% – abolish the charges now

Remember when a majority of people, by maintaining a boycott, put water charges on the agenda at the last election and 70% of the electorate voted for TDs opposed to the charge?

Jul 13, 2016

News & Analysis

Working class people need a government that puts the 99% first

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s decision to hold the general election in spring 2016 is in part an attempt to give the Labour Party some breathing space. All it will actually achieve is a delay in the inevitable retribution from working class people who

Oct 14, 2015

News & Analysis

What kind of Left challenge is needed?

By Kevin McLoughlin Working class people made the demonstration of 11 October last year a historic event. They mobilised themselves and changed the political situation in the whole country and in so doing they propelled Right2Water to a prestigious position of being

Jun 17, 2015

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Desperate Measure cannot defeat Boycott campaign

Debt collection legislation related to fines rather than water charges No fines or attachment orders until after General Election- boycott can force abolition Landlords opposed to becoming debt collectors for Irish Water The Anti-Austerity Alliance has responded to media reports about new

May 6, 2015

News & Analysis

A new working class voice emerges

The AAA is building a new left alternative for working class people.

May 5, 2015

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Carlow/Kilkenny By Election- Vote no.1 Conor McLiam

Reject austerity & water charges

Apr 28, 2015

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Ruth Coppinger calls for end to interception of abortion pills

Parliamentary Question included below Anti-Austerity Alliance TD, Ruth Coppinger, has today called on the government and Customs to “stop adding to the misery of women in crisis pregnancies by intercepting abortion pills they have ordered and paid for online.” Speaking after figures

Apr 21, 2015

Anti-Austerity Alliance

Jobstown trial: Organise to oppose criminalisation of protest

How the protest movement & boycott forced the suspension of water charges

Brexit vote is their crisis – workers’ rights must not be sacrificed

Non-payment of water bills rises to 73% – abolish the charges now

Working class people need a government that puts the 99% first

What kind of Left challenge is needed?

Desperate Measure cannot defeat Boycott campaign

A new working class voice emerges

Carlow/Kilkenny By Election- Vote no.1 Conor McLiam

Ruth Coppinger calls for end to interception of abortion pills

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden