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Department of Finance ‘cooking the books’ on corporation tax
Technical Paper Author, Seamus Coffey has previously estimated ‘implicit corporate tax rate’ as 8%. Paper itself admits ‘implicit tax rate’ of 5.9% in 2012
What the GSOC controversy exposed
The political and media rumpus created over issues relating to the Garda force has abated for the time being as the main issues have been kicked to various investigations. There were so many different strands in play that it was sometimes difficult to keep abreast of developments. It is however important with hindsight to analyse why the main protagonists such as the government and the Garda management reacted as they did, in order to clearly understand which interests they defend.
Government’s strategy on bank debt is in tatters and will not deliver
Troika report being cynically used by pro austerity MEPs to give false hope of a retrospective bank deal.
The Youth Guarantee is an escalation of the government’s war on young people
The government’s real response to unemployment is two-pronged: forced emigration and using mass unemployment to try to drive down wages and conditions.
Occupational pensions crisis – capitalist failure to guarantee a future for retired workers
In recent and current industrial battles the crisis in pension funds has been centre stage. Between the nine commercial semi state companies in Ireland there is a deficit in the schemes totalling €3 billion, half of which is concentrated in one company alone, the ESB.
Advance Pitstop Seeks to Save at Least €377,000 in Unpaid Wages Through JobBridge
Advance Pitstop have today advertised on JobBridge for 28 interns to work as ‘sales fitters’ in their branches…
A socialist voice joins Seattle City Council
Who would have imagined that in a major American city, at a post election inauguration ceremony attended by 1,000 people, a new, directly elected Mayor and other members of the City Council would be completely eclipsed by the response of the attendance to a Socialist Councillor? That was the situation in Seattle on 6 January. Socialist Alternative Councillor Kshama Sawant, in her speech, roundly denounced the problems which ‘crisis ridden capitalism’ causes for working class people, called for workers to organise, for a new party of the working class as an alternative to the Republican and Democratic Party politicians and for socialist change.
Minister’s ignorant comments on Qatar stadiums shows he regards dead migrant workers as ‘non people’
The approach on Middle East trade mission puts Ireland’s trade policy firmly in the camp the fundamentalist free trade hawks.
MEP writes to Taoiseach about Human Rights in Saudi Arabia & Qatar
Socialist Party MEP has written to Taoiseach Enda Kenny about his incredible praise for brutal dictatorships in his trade mission to the Middle East. The full text of the letter, which sets out some of the reality of workers', women's and human rights in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, is below.
Taoiseach puts profits for big business ahead of human rights on tour of Gulf dictatorships
Commenting on the Taoiseach’s tour of the Gulf States, Paul Murphy MEP commented: “I find the comments from…
