Month: July 2012
Quebec Student Strike – interview with a strike organiser
socialistparty.net spoke with Julien Daigneault, a member of Alternative Socialiste (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in Quebec) about the student strike, politics and perspectives.
Smear campaign against socialist TDs
This week the tragedy that is mass unemployment was intensified further with the official rate rising to 14.9%, a total of 440,600 people and the highest since 1994. This week, also, the Troika is in town to make sure that the Irish people continue to wear the suffocating straitjacket of austerity in the interests of salvaging the fortunes of the failed property gamblers from the European financial markets. Last week a further €1.2 billion was paid out to unsecured bondholders.
Fight for a socialist society!
Socialists are for massive investment in new jobs and for retooling the economy to both protect the environment and put all the unemployed back to work. Democratic planning by the majority of society could ensure that everyone has a good job and that the economy provides the products we need.
MEP responds to Fine Gael chairman’s McKenna judgement comments
- McKenna judgement important to safeguard democratic debate
- Tax payers’ money must not be used to fund government side in referendum campaigns
SIPTU members demand right to ballot
Rank and file SIPTU members in Dublin Airport take unprecedented step of writing to Jack O'Connor demanding right to ballot
London Olympics: run for profit
World records will not be the only things broken at this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. Promises for a lasting legacy – affordable housing, decent jobs, increased sports participation, etc – are being broken, too. The greatest sporting show on earth has been dragged down by crass commercialisation, and become a test-bed for increased state repression. socialistparty.net reports on the neo-liberal Games.
Why ACTA needs to be defeated
This week may see a rare occurrence in the European Parliament - the defeat of a key item in the big business agenda pushed by European Commission. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is set to be voted on by the full plenary of the European Parliament today, despite some last minute chicanery by the European People's Party to try to delay the vote.
Manufactured Dail Travel Expenses Controversy Will Not Divert From Fight Against Unjust Home Taxes
Independent Newspapers attempt to manufacture an artificial controversy over Socialist Party and some other Left TDs’ travel allowance being used to attend anti House Tax meetings around the country is a transparent attempt to smear those who are engaged in a major fight against destructive austerity policies in general and the Household Tax in particular.
Manufactured expenses controversy will not divert fight against unjust Home Taxes
Independent Newspapers attempt to manufacture an artificial controversy over Socialist Party and some other Left TDs’ travel allowance being used to attend anti House Tax meetings around the country is a transparent attempt to smear those who are engaged in a major fight against destructive austerity policies in general and the Household Tax in particular.
Threatening letters: Don’t pay – hold firm!
Now that the Fiscal Treaty referendum is out of the way, the government is preparing to attack the Household Tax nonpayment movement by using the power of the state.
