What you can do

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.

The Fianna Fáil/ Green Party Government has just about limped to the shelter of the Dáil summer recess, battered and severely frayed at the edges. Now there must be serious questions about how long more it can stagger from crisis to crisis.

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