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Why is Big Business showering Sinn Féin with money?

By Manus Lenihan Last November, Friends of Sinn Féin held a dinner at the fanciest hotel in Manhattan, raising $350,000. The image of stinking-rich people dining in the Times Square Sheraton, each forking out thousands to Sinn Féin, doesn’t sit well with

Mar 10, 2015

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

Mar 9, 2015

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

Agreeing Not To Agree, Again – The Stormont House Agreement

By Michael Cleary On December 23rd the five Executive parties and the British and Irish governments signed off on the “Stormont House Agreement”. The Agreement came at the end of eleven weeks of intense negotiations which concluded with 30 hours of continuous

Jan 6, 2015

Theory & History

Northern Ireland: 20 years after the ceasefires

In 1994, the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries called ceasefires. Four years later the Good Friday agreement was declared to mark the end of the ‘Troubles'.

Nov 13, 2014

News & Analysis·The North

Northern Ireland: Draft Budget is a neo-liberal programme of austerity

The passing of the Draft Budget by the Stormont Executive has blown apart the pretense of opposition to cuts by the politicians in the Assembly. By voting for the Draft Budget, the DUP and Sinn Féin are agreeing to make horrific cuts

Nov 12, 2014

Campaigns & Issues

AAA opposes South Dublin County Council budget

AAA opposes double property tax robbery in budget while Sinn Fein, Labour, Greens vote in favour. Out of the €32.65m collected in Property Tax in the County, only a meagre €2.5m is kept in SDCC.

Nov 7, 2014

Elections·News & Analysis

How the AAA won a By-Election and the way forward for the Left

Stunning Dublin By-Election victory, huge water protests and a new chapter for working class resistance

Nov 4, 2014

News & Analysis

AAA – building a movement for the 99%

What party represents the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets on 11 October and 1 November (and the many others not on those marches who applaud them)? It's obvious there is a gaping political vacuum, with no major

Nov 4, 2014

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism·The North

Cover up exposes paramilitarism – justice for Maíria Cahill

Just like the Catholic Church and the Irish and British States before them, Sinn Féin and the IRA have been exposed for covering up sexual abuse in order to protect its own members and their organisation.

Oct 29, 2014

Elections·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Stunning by-election victory: a blow against water charges

It will be a day that's remembered for years to come in Ireland, 12 October 2014. An estimated 100,000 marched in Dublin against the hated Water Charges and Paul Murphy, Anti Austerity Alliance (AAA) candidate, won a By-Election by leading the call

Oct 13, 2014

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