Month: November 2014
20 posts
AAA opposes South Dublin County Council budget
AAA opposes double property tax robbery in budget while Sinn Fein, Labour, Greens vote in favour. Out of the €32.65m collected in Property Tax in the County, only a meagre €2.5m is kept in SDCC.
Brief history of Russia’s 1917 socialist revolution
97th anniversary of workers taking power
Inequality: Worst since Great Depression
A report recently published by Credit Suisse has found that inequality has now reached a record high.
AAA Cllr Michael O’Brien: “Will Minister condemn Garda violence?”
Anti-Austerity Alliance Responds to Minister Varadkar’s ‘sinister fringe’ comments. How much further are the government prepared to go to implement water charge in face of mass opposition?
Ebola pandemic highlights…”moral bankruptcy of capitalism”
“This [ebola] is the moral bankruptcy of capitalism, acting in the absence of an ethical and social framework” John Ashton, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health.
How the AAA won a By-Election and the way forward for the Left
Stunning Dublin By-Election victory, huge water protests and a new chapter for working class resistance
AAA – building a movement for the 99%
What party represents the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets on 11 October and 1 November (and the many others not on those marches who applaud them)? It's obvious there is a gaping political vacuum, with no major party or movement basing itself on fighting the cause of workers, the unemployed, pensioners and young people.
Why a left government must challenge capitalism?
As the political crisis of the establishment deepens and support for the Left rises, the question of a Left government will increasingly be posed. Paul Murphy, Anti Austerity Alliance TD, asks what such a government would do.
100,000 on the streets represents an…Explosion from below
The demonstration on 11 October and on 1 November with 100,000 and 150,000 marching in Dublin and throughout the…
Global capitalism’s troubles will impact on recovery
In its recent World Economic Outlook report the International Monetary Fund (IMF) more than doubled its growth estimate for the Irish economy in 2014 – from 1.7% to 3.6%