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We need working class fighters not gender quotas!
Minister Phil Hogan has unveiled a plan to impose a quota on the number of female general election candidates that parties must stand. Starting at 30% this will increase to 40% over time. Failure to reach the quota will result in cuts to state funding to the “offending” political party.
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Big Business Out to Buy a ‘Yes’ to Lisbon
The pro-Lisbon political parties do not need to raise funds for the ‘Yes’ to Lisbon campaign. Big business is directly funding their side of the debate.
The announcement that Intel and Ryanair will spend hundreds of thousands of euro to try to achieve a Yes vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty represents an unconcealed attempt by big business to shape politics in its favour.
Greece’s debt crisis: No way out for workers under capitalism
As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece deepens, Andros Payiatsos, general secretary of Xekinima (the Socialist Party's sister section in Greece), spoke to the socialistparty.net (13 July) about its effects and what the way out is for workers and the majority in society.