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Oppose IMF/EU/Govt austerity budget
Build for a One day general strike
The Fianna Fail/Green Party Government, in alliance with the IMF and the EU, has declared war on working people and the unemployed.
Super rich gain – poorest pay
Minister Lenihan must explain scandal of company directors earning €500,000 gaining €7,700 in Budget while the lowest paid workers lose up to €,2000
Will Labour and Fine Gael commit to repealing the minimum wage reduction?
One demo is not enough
Start a campaign of industrial action with a one day general strike before the Budget
Another €15 billion in cuts and tax increases will just make this disaster even worse. ICTU says the “National Recovery Programme” will cause another 90,000 job losses. A deflationary programme of nearly €30 billion cuts/tax hikes over six years will guarantee mass unemployment and mass emigration for years to come.
Joe Higgins walks out over Rehn’s insistence on the confidentiality of discussion
Socialist Party MEP, Joe Higgins, refused to participate in a meeting between Irish MEPs and the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn. MEP Higgins left the meeting after Mr Rehn stated he would only share essential information if all the MEPs agreed not to disclose the contents.
“Back street” abortion drug risk
This past summer, Ireland’s Crisis Pregnancy Programme announced in its annual report that the number of Irish women travelling abroad for abortions is falling. In 2010 some 4,422 women gave Irish addresses at UK abortion clinics compared to 6,673 in 2001.
IMF / EU Commission – Here As Agents For Financial Market Vampires
Gilmore commits Labour to austerity policies
The comment of the Labour Party to imposing austerity as part of the next government is increasingly clear. In agreeing to the target of reducing the budget deficit to 3% by 2014, Labour is pledging to implement cutbacks and attacks similar to those of the current government.
Socialist Party annual conference takes place this weekend in Cavan
MEP and Dublin West candidate for the general election Joe Higgins commented:
"This weekend the annual conference of the Socialist Party takes place against the political and economic backdrop that points towards years of savage cutbacks, high unemployment and mass emigration of our youth unless a serious political challenge to the establishment consensus is built allied to a fightback in the form of mass protests and strike action.
1,100 attend “Claiming our future” conference
The impressive attendance of 1,100 at the recent “Claiming Our Future” conference in the RDS was a positive indication that people want an alternative to the cutback agenda on offer from the entire political establishment, both government and official opposition. In fact twice as many applied for tickets to attend but could not be accommodated for reasons of space
