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2011: Turbulence, Crisis and Revolutions
Here Joe Higgins TD looks back on 2011 - a year marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in this country also.
Household tax ‘no benefit’ to councils, Manager confirms
Fingal County Council's Finance Director has stated that the proposed Household Tax will be of "no benefit" to local councils as it goes "straight into the Local Government Fund". The categorical statement from Mr Pat Keane came when presenting Fingal's Annual Budget (20 Dec) and directly contradicts Minister Hogan's claim that the Household Tax is to fund libraries, fire brigades and other local services.
Threats to deduct household tax misleading & will be fought
Alarmist media headlines over the past week give the impression that €2,500 could easily be deducted from the wages and welfare payments of householders boycotting the registration and payment of the new household tax. In fact such legislation does not even exist at this time. Nor does any legislation allow for the tax itself to be deducted.
Mass campaign of non-payment only way to defeat regressive tax
The first three months of 2012 could turn out to be an historic period in the modern political and social life of this State. It could be when the quiet majority of the population takes a decisive stand against shouldering any more burdens to bail out the major bankers, speculators and bondholders of Europe at the behest of the unholy trinity of the EU/IMF/ECB with the Fine Gael/Labour government as its agent. And the potent weapon they can wield is a boycott of the registration and payment of the newly imposed Household Tax.
Household Tax: Don’t register, Don’t Pay!
The ink on the Household Tax legislation is not yet dry and already we have firm indications that this could be the issue that marks the real beginning of an active fightback by ordinary people up and down the country.
VIDEO: Household tax will be met with grass-roots campaign of defiance
Here we post the video of Joe Higgins' speech in the Dail on the new household tax.
Don’t pay the household charge!
Mass campaign of non-payment and non-registration stepped up against new draconian Household Tax
Summit proposals represent enshrining austerity in the EU
Socialist Party / United Left Alliance MEP Paul Murphy, today has slammed the latest proposal from President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel to impose fiscal control over member states budgetary policies.
Demand a referendum on any Treaty changes
Paul Murphy MEP for the Socialist Party/United Left Alliance has today demanded that any proposed changes to the Lisbon Treaty are put to a referendum in Ireland. This follows talks between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarcozy yesterday, and ahead of their meeting with European Council president Herman Van Rompuy.
Public Meeting: Greek activist and socialist speaks
“Class warfare is going on and my class isn’t just winning. I mean we’re killing them”
- World’s third richest man, Warren Buffet, October 2011
