Even as the votes in the Fiscal/Austerity Treaty Referendum were being counted, attention was already moving to the immediate and medium term future of the Eurozone and the fate of the millions of people in its economically beleaguered periphery. History may well show that the treaty itself was an almost irrelevant distraction from an honest appraisal of the cataclysmic problems that bedevil the currency union as all the contradictions in its economic and financial systems assert themselves with a vengeance.
Read More »Elections
Presidential & Dublin West polls show growing desire for change
Labour had a good day, but it's downhill from here
Excellent performance by the Socialist Party / United Left Alliance in Dublin West
Read More »Defend Blanchardstown Hospital: Rebuke Labour & Fine Gael
Minister Leo Varadkar has disgracefully attacked the Defend Blanchardstown Hospital Campaign, that involves many hospital staff, claiming it is scaremongering and exaggerating about the threat to the hospital's future. He dismisses the concerns of the doctors, nurses and staff.
Ruth Coppinger says, “It is Minister Varadkar who is scaremongering by attacking the motives of the Campaign. It is due the work of the Defend Blanchardstown Hospital Campaign over the last months that the threat to cut the A&E to a 12-hour service has been lifted.
Read More »Dublin West By Election Final Message: Elect Ruth Coppinger
- Labour & Fine Gael's Household Tax will start at €100 but will rise to €1000
- They have 113 - don’t give the Government another TD
- Labour hasn’t delivered change - so elect Ruth Coppinger, Socialist Party/United Alliance Read More »
Socialist Party By Election Manifesto
Three years of austerity, four austerity budgets, and every year, every budget, the deficit and the crisis has gotten worse. The more they take out of the economy, the worse the crisis gets.
Read More »Socialist Party Election Manifesto
The Socialist Party's 8 point manifersto sets out our alternative to cuts and crisis. As well as being available here, it has been delivered into almost every single house in the 9 constituencies in which we are standing.
Read More »Limerick Socialist Election Campaign Gathers Momentum
The Socialist Party & United Left Alliance election campaign has been gathering momentum in Limerick in the last weeks, with a very successful launch rally, and important endorsements.
Read More »Sinn Fein: a genuine alternative?
Does Sinn Féin represent a genuine left alternative for working class people in the General Election? This is a question that many workers and young people are now asking.
Read More »Cynical betrayal of Irish people
Opening today’s press conference Cllr Clare Daly, Socialist Party and ULA candidate for Dublin North said:
“Fine Gael and the Labour Party correctly say that the Fianna Fail minority government,
a) doesn't have the confidence of the Dail;
b) has a Taoiseach who doesn't have the confidence of his own party;
c) is so utterly discredited that the General Election must be brought forward.
General Election Challenge of United Left Alliance Strengthens
The challenge of the United Left Alliance to the right wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in the looming General Election.
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