Month: February 2012
Campaign rejects government scaremongering over house tax fines
The Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes (CAHWT) has condemned as “pure scaremongering” claims by the Minister for Justice that fines for non-payment of the household tax could be taken from people’s pay.
There must be a referendum on the Austerity Treaty
Usually it takes some years for a new government to develop a haughty arrogance toward the people who put it in power. With the current Fine Gael/ Labour Coalition this time span has been shortened to less than one year, something to do no doubt, with its huge majority of sixty in the Dáil.
Stop SOPA Ireland
In mid-January, over seven million people in the United States contacted members of the Congress to show their opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Both pieces of legislation proposed to give sweeping powers to the Courts to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to immediately block access to particular websites at the behest of big business. But as a result of the mass opposition shown to SOPA and PIPA, both laws have been temporarily defeated and put on hold.
Yesterday’s Irish Independent article amounts to incitement to hatred
Socialist Party TDs have referred to the Irish Independent's front page article yesterday, 1st of February as 'tantamount to incitement to hatred.'
Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens
This is the final version of a document agreed at the International Executive Committee of the Committee for a Workers' International, which the Socialist Party represents in Ireland.
