The battle against water charges & building a new left movement
How can a new voice for the working class be built.
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
Anti-Austerity Alliance calls for support for Dunnes Stores workers
TDs call on public to show solidarity & don’t pass the picket
Government’s attacks on RTE an attempt to ‘gag’ anti-water charges campaigns as bills drop
Minister Alan Kelly & Elizabeth Arnett given RTE platforms to use as infomercials for Irish Water
Alan Kelly’s bluster will be met with solid boycott
AAA – Alan Kelly’s bluster will be met with solid boycott and the sinking of Irish Water & government o No penalties or court cases until after General Election o Private Members Motion will give government last opportunity to scrap water charges
Joe Higgins on SIPTU’s support for Sinn Fein
During the last seven years of austerity, the Irish Congress of Trades Unions (ICTU) and its biggest component, Siptu, capitulated utterly in front of the diktats of the financial markets as imposed by the Troika resulting in working class people being forced
“Dogs of war” unleashed in Jobstown
By Mick Barry The arrest of 21 anti water charges campaigners in Dublin, the threat to arrest a further 17-21, the threat to send a file to the DPP and the possibility of court action on serious charges – all are sure
‘Gardaí score another own goal’ with 4 more Jobstown arrests
Four more people have been arrested in relation to the Jobstown protest which saw Paul Murphy TD arrested yesterday.
Free the Jobstown 4!
Blatant political policing will fail to stem the impending mass boycott of bills
Only 47% register with Irish water
Press Statement: Anti-Austerity Alliance (2nd February 2015) CSO & EPA studies show Irish Water understating by 260,000 the number of houses which need to register · Irish Water refuse to reply to information supplied to them by AAA despite give assurances they
Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity
Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden
