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#JobstownNotGuilty trials begin… State criminalises right to protest
First JobstownNotGuilty trial begins. Defend the right to protest!
Fighting for repeal & right to choose – what next?
By Laura Fitzgerald The March for Choice on 24 September is a crucial event in the fight for…
Extortionate rents fuel housing crisis
By Clodagh Troelstra Heffernan Figures in the latest Daft.ie report have shown that the ever increasing rent prices…
After years of wage restraint: Dublin Bus workers move into action
The strike action by Dublin Bus workers is about achieving a decade of pay justice and should be supported by all workers.
A referendum is a real citizens’ assembly
Irish politics this summer has been dominated by the widespread and ever more vocal outcry for Repeal of the 8th Amendment. No matter how much the political establishment tries to hide away from the issue, a powerful campaign for repeal has exploded on to the scene and will not just ebb away.
“Leprechaun economics” creates fictitious growth
Suspend your sense of disbelief – Ireland's economy “grew” by a staggering 26.3% in GDP in 2015.
The €13 billion question- Government support Apple’s tax dodging
Seize the €13 billion- Invest in homes, jobs and public services
A New Feminist Wave?
Why we need an anti-capitalist & socialist women’s movement
How the protest movement & boycott forced the suspension of water charges
The Fine Gael minority government was forced to suspend water charges. Michael O’Brien argues that this is a result of the protest movement that emerged in late 2014, the subsequent mass boycott of the charge and the fundamental weakness of this right-wing administration.
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.