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COVID-19: Waive rent and mortgage payments now

The banks have been bailed out to the tune of billions in the last decade. This has been paid for by workers through vicious austerity. The banks have also been gifted generous tax breaks serving to boost their profits by billions. There

Mar 15, 2020

Rising number of young people join the “Locked Out Generation”

By Ollie Bell The number of young Irish people in their 20s living at home has risen to 47.2% according to research by EU agency Eurofound. Ireland, along with Luxemburg and Romania, have the highest increases in Europe. While throughout other EU

Mar 9, 2020

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A burning question: Housing crisis & the rule of profit

By Darragh O’Dwyer The results of the recent general election reflected the deep and widespread desire for real change on a range of issues in Irish society. Perhaps the most prominent among these was that of housing, a crisis which developed under

Mar 9, 2020

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Ruth Coppinger interviews UCD students fighting rent hikes

I’ve come here this morning to show solidarity with students who are protesting against huge rent hikes that are taking place here in UCD. So I have with me here Joanna, who is the President of the Students Union and Úna who

Feb 27, 2020

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Mick Barry TD on roots of housing crisis

By Mick Barry TD Just after Christmas, a corpse was found in the grounds of a derelict house in Cork. The head and the arms had been severed from the dead man’s body. The dead man was Frankie Dunne from the Northside

Jan 14, 2020

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Seething anger at housing crisis grows

By Katia Hancke On Thursday 5 December, in the middle of the day, thousands of people took to the streets of Dublin to demand action on the housing crisis. Working-class people from all over the city and beyond, many directly affected by

Dec 8, 2019

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10,517 (officially) Homeless at Xmas: End this rotten, rigged system

“I attended court with a young homeless boy who had been charged with theft of a bottle of orange, value €1…. A TD, on his way to, or from, his full-time, very well paid job in Brussels, stops by at Dáil Éireann

Dec 4, 2019

5 reasons to march on 5 December

By Manus Lenihan 60,000 people have joined the Facebook group “Protest Against Homelessness in Ireland,” pledging to march on December 5th, 12pm at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin. Here’s why you should join the protest. Because the scenes of

Nov 17, 2019

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O’Devaney Gardens Sell Out by the Greens, Soc Dems and Labour

By Dan O’Rourke The ruling administration of Dublin City Council, composed of Fianna Fáil, Green Party, Social Democrats and Labour, have picked up from where the previous Sinn Féin led administration left off. They’ve agreed to the privatisation of council owned land,

Nov 13, 2019

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Germany: “Rent madness” checked by campaign for nationalisation

by Lucy Redler, SAV (our sister organisation in Germany) Debates about the need to nationalise housing corporations have been continuing for months in Berlin and across Germany. The discussion was initiated by the Berlin based campaign to “Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co.”,

Nov 5, 2019

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COVID-19: Waive rent and mortgage payments now

Rising number of young people join the “Locked Out Generation”

A burning question: Housing crisis & the rule of profit

Ruth Coppinger interviews UCD students fighting rent hikes

Mick Barry TD on roots of housing crisis

Seething anger at housing crisis grows

10,517 (officially) Homeless at Xmas: End this rotten, rigged system

5 reasons to march on 5 December

Germany: “Rent madness” checked by campaign for nationalisation

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden