Month: June 2014
24 posts
Irish workers need a pay rise – €11 an hour now!
Despite the government and media’s attempts to sell the mantra of recovery, the reality is that the living standards of working people continue to be squeezed. I
Pride 2014: Step up the fight for full equality
The huge change of attitudes in Ireland to LGBTQ people which has taken place over the last decades has been clearly shown this year.
History: “We want bread, but we want roses too!”
The 1912 strike in the textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, known as the Bread and Roses strike, was one of the most important industrial struggles of the 20th century.
Passing of Housing Bill will kick 50,000 families off Housing Waiting Lists
The Housing Bill which will be voted on today is one of the most regressive and anti-social pieces of legislation introduced by this or any government.
Housing crisis: Establishment parties to blame
A series of articles that have been carried in the mainstream media recently have exposed the human face of the growing housing crisis in Dublin and other urban centres across the state.
Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century – Thomas Picketty
The serious strategists of capitalism vaguely recognise that the future of capitalism is threatened by growing inequality. When the head of the IMF and the governor of the Bank of England join in the chorus demanding 'something should be done' or 'stability' will be threatened, it is clear that fear of strikes, revolt and revolution is growing among society's elite.
Iraq: Isis jihadists capture more territory
Only organised, united working class can end war and social misery.
Medical card debacle – free healthcare for all!
“An attempt to improve the medical card system, to bring fairness and equity to the system” is the justification spewed by Health Minister James Reilly following the government’s announcement that 15,300 discretionary medical cards callously revoked from the most vulnerable will be reinstated.
Gerry Conlon – victim of capitalist repression & fighter
The death of Gerry Conlon in Belfast has been met with mass sympathy across the world as people are reminded of the vile injustice of the British capitalist state against the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven.
Right to strike under threat
If this goes unchallenged it represents a reversal for the trade union movement of a principle won in legislation over 100 years ago that unions could not be made liable for bosses loss of income arising from trade disputes.