Month: July 2014
9 posts
Site recovering from an attack
Our website is currently experiencing some difficulties, as we are recovering from a recent cyber attack. In particular,…
Israel-Palestine: Netanyahu government fuels wave of protest
Extracts and updates from a series of articles on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, the Israel-Palestine section of the CWI.
Dublin City Councillor calls for a ban on evictions through rent increases
Dublin City Councillor Michael O’ Brien of the Anti-Austerity Alliance has today said that DCC should be given NAMA hotels as a public utility for emergency housing situations and that an immediate ban on evictions through rent hikes should be implemented across the city.
Scotland: Can capitalism put all of us first?
A response to the “practical idealism” of the Common Weal.
Support the Greyhound workers – oppose strike breaking
Return the service to the council, guaranteeing jobs and conditions and a superior public service.
Abortion guidelines confirm criticisms of legislation’s narrowness
Legislation will force women to continue to travel to Britain.
Symphysiotomy redress is an insult
No apology & miniscule sums add to women's suffering.
An immigrant woman’s struggle to get by… “I know what it is like”
Being a young immigrant woman I have first hand experience of the “new jobs” created during this so-called recovery.
Irish capitalist state responsible for church terror
From the 1943 Cavan Fire in which 35 children and one adult perished after nuns refused to let girls escape to avoid them being seen in their night-gowns; to the enslavement of poor women in Magdalene Laundries, the last of which closed only in 1996; to the systemic cover-up of child sexual abuse; to the deplorable and sinister infant and child mortality rates in Mother & Baby Homes - the litany of abuse, degradation and oppression presided over by Church and State in Ireland, is simply confounding.