Month: November 2015
8 posts
North: A ‘Fresh Start’ for Austerity and Division
Sinn Féin and DUP sign up to welfare ‘reform’ and corporation tax cut
Stunning victory for socialist in Seattle
By Carah Daniel The amazing victory of Socialist Alternative candidate Kshama Sawant in the election to Seattle City…
Potential for new Left movement
By Kevin McLoughlin Christmas is coming, so too is the general election and the political games involving the…
Real change requires system change- The fight for a left government
By Cillian Gillespie After seven years and €31 billion worth of austerity, we are told that we are…
Can Sinn Féin deliver for the 99%?
By Laura Fitzgerald Unfortunately, despite Sinn Féin signing up to the Right2Change initiative that gives a different appearance,…
Worker exploitation rife in fishing industry
By Councillor Michael O’Brien The Guardian newspaper recently published a major exposé about the systematic super exploitation of…
Schools Admissions policies: Separate Church and State
By Robert Cosgrave On Sunday, October 25 hundreds of people came out on the streets of Dublin to…
The Bernie Sanders challenge
The established political order in the US has been shaken up by Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic…