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United Left Alliance TDs call for release of Teresa Treacy
Will attend protest organised by supporters at ESB HQ in Stephen's Green today at 12pm noon
Socialist Party / United Left Alliance by-election challenge
A by election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Brian Lenihan is set for 27 October. The Socialist Party has selected Cllr Ruth Coppinger to contest it and will be undertaking a major campaign to win this seat.
Metro West vital for jobs and transport
Austerity madness must end
Wheels coming off euro project at fast pace
Talk of eurobonds won't be sufficient to stave off crisis
How to beat the household tax
The Government plan to introduce a property tax on the family home and a water tax by 2014. They are introducing a household charge in January as an “interim measure” for 2012 and 2013. The charge will start at 100 euro for 2012. It will be levied on 1.6 million households or 86% of all households in the state.
Since publication of this article, further details of how the tax is being introduced have come out, these can be read in this article by Joe Higgins TD.
Socialist Party councillor criticises Sinn Féin for refusal to back non-payment of household tax
Sinn Féin's opposition to household and water taxes worthless if not matched with call for mass boycott
Anti household tax campaign national organising drive
200+ people from 12 counties gathered in Dublin on 9 September for a national meeting of the Anti Household and Water Tax Campaign. Attendees included members of left parties, community activists and people angered by the governments policy of austerity including some from Donegal who have been agitating agains the proposed tax on septic tanks.
United Left Alliance TDs prepare to fight government’s new wave of austerity
Plans announced for a campaign against cuts and budget 2012
The other 9/11 – The Pinochet Coup in Chile 1973
The capitalist media and commentators have given great emphasis to discussing the consequences and lessons of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York a decade ago. Yet this was not the first ‘9/11’. Following the first 9/11, thousands were slaughtered and thousands more tortured and suffered the horrific consequences which followed. This slaughter took place not in the US but in Chile on September 11th 1973. It was planned and executed not from the tribal territories of Afghanistan or Pakistan but in the head-quarters of the CIA and the White House, in collusion with the ruling elite in Chile and its armed forces. This 9/11 should be commemorated, and its lessons studied, by socialists and workers everywhere.
Don’t pay the Household Tax
The government’s proposed Household Charge of €100 is the forerunner for water charges and a property tax on every home. A pensioner or low paid worker pays the same as a millionaire. How rotten! This new tax has absolutely nothing to do with improving council services – the proceeds go towards the bailout of wealthy gamblers and bankers, for which ordinary people are being bled dry.
