Month: July 2016
8 posts
Brexit vote is their crisis – workers’ rights must not be sacrificed
Never ones to waste a good crisis IBEC were quickly out of the traps after the Brexit vote claiming that the ensuing political and economic turmoil meant that bosses in Ireland needed support and in turn workers’ rights must come under the hammer.
#KeepCorbyn: Blairites mount coup against left leadership
With the prospect of an early election in Britain, the right-wing Blairities in the Labour Party have made their move against the party’s left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn. They have been waiting for an excuse to move against him since he swept to victory as a Labour leader last Autumn.
US: Bernie Sanders Abandons the Revolution
Below is an article by Socialist Alternative (sister party of the Socialist Party in US) member and Seattle City…
#JobstownNotGuilty trial: Criminalising protest must be resisted
The clock continues to tick down towards the biggest political trial in decades. In April 2017, the first trial of adults for the false imprisonment of Joan Burton and her assistant will commence in the Criminal Courts of Justice. In advance of that, on 19 September, a 17 year old will go on trial in the Children's Court for the same offences.
Non-payment of water bills rises to 73% – abolish the charges now
Remember when a majority of people, by maintaining a boycott, put water charges on the agenda at the last election and 70% of the electorate voted for TDs opposed to the charge?
Slaughter at the Somme – one hundred years on
By Kevin Henry Between 1 July and 18 November, 1916 the bloodiest and largest battle of the First…
Britain: Chilcot’s damning findings on Iraq war
The 2.6 million-word Chilcot report in essence acknowledges that the devastating war on Iraq and occupation was a…
Britain: Stand firm and organise against the Blairite coup
Article from “The Socialist”, paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales, on how the attempts to…