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Ruth Coppinger leaflet: The fight for Disability Justice & the Care Crisis
Public Zoom meeting hosted by Ruth Coppinger: 7.30pm Tuesday 9th April Speakers: Ruth Coppinger, secondary teacher & campaigner; Mick Barry,…
Britain: Parliament suspended – fight for a general election now!
By Becci Heagney, Socialist Alternative (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in England and Wales) No to Boris…
Capitalist crisis means living standards are in the crosshairs
By Joe Higgins The Irish Fiscal Council is the capitalist establishment’s neoliberal watchdog over the general issue of…
Referendum in May Vote YES – Remove all restrictions on Divorce
By Paul Murphy TD “Hello Divorce – Bye Bye Daddy” was a key slogan of the right-wing No…
FAI scandal: Sack the board & open the books
By Ruth Coppinger TD A bridging loan by John Delaney, the CEO, to the Football Association of Ireland;…
This weak government can be beaten
By Paul Murphy TD “The reality is that a small clique of hard-left, Trotskyite politicians, who are quite…
Profiteering from an essential element of life
By Joe Higgins TD Put the words “profiting from Water” into any internet search engine and hundreds of…
Joe Higgins on how water charges were beaten in 1996
In December 1996, the now Labour Party Minister for Public Expenditure, Brendan Howlin – at that time Minister…
Labour’s sell-out
An opinion Poll in early June showed the Labour Party with 4% support nationally. This is a measure of how comprehensively that party has disappointed those who voted for it in the 2011 General Election.
Joe Higgins TD on Banking Inquiry Nomination
The government’s actions in cobbling together a majority on the Committee has been unbelievably crude and hamfisted. However, while this has shown to the world the cynical manoeuvrings that go on among the establishment political parties in the Oireachtas as they jockey for advantage, it fundamentally changes nothing. All parties understood that the government was always going to use its Dáil majority to have a majority on the Committee.
