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Socialist Party delegation travelling to Rossport to protest against Shell’s onshore pipeline
History repeats itself with Minister Rabbitte following path trod by Eamon Ryan of overseeing criminal giveaway of vital oil and gas resources
Government’s hypocritical response to mortgage debt forgivness
Socialist Party and United Left Alliance support write down of all negative equity mortgages and a ban on repossessions
Government’s hypocritical response to mortgage debt forgivness
Socialist Party and United Left Alliance support write down of all negative equity mortgages and a ban on repossessions
Report from protest in support of Kazakh oil wokrers
A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.
Why is the HSE costing a daytime-only A&E at Blanchardstown Hospital?
It has come to our attention that the HSE is costing a daytime-only A & E service for Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown. We have received confidential information that this is being done and that a real threat now exists to a 24-hour A&E service at the hospital.
London’s Burning: Looking back at the Brixton riots of 1981
The recent riots in the most unequal borough in the UK - Tottenham, London - in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by police have many parrallels with the Brixton riots in London 30 years ago. In advance of a fuller analysis of the recent events, we repost an article for our readers from April of this year, where the Socialist Party of England and Wales (our sister group) loked back at the Brixton riots on it's thirtieth anniversary and warned that the "conditions for new 'Brixtons' are being prepared".
Fresh rise in unemployment is further proof that austerity is not working
Fine Gael / Labour government's commitment to more cuts will worsen jobs situation
Warning: Capitalism’ a health hazard
TASC, an independent Irish think-tank, has produced a report that puts the reality of the detrimental impact of poverty, lack of education and class division on human health, in an Irish context. Eliminating Health Inequalities – A Matter of Life and Death, TASC 2011 points out, for example, that according to Census 2006, men living in the most affluent areas live 4.5 years longer than men living in the poorest areas.
Socialist MEP calls for release of Brendan Lillis
Following approaches from friends and family of Mr Brendan Lillis, a prisoner in Maghaberry prison, who is close to death, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Paul Murphy, is appealing to Northern Ireland Justice Minister, Mr David Ford, to intervene with a view to allowing Mr Lillis to spend his last weeks at home on humanitarian grounds.
