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Lisbon & Workers’ Rights
The issue of how workers' rights, which has been consistently raised by the Socialist Party, is shaping up to be a key issue in this campaign. Here Joe Higgins outlines how Lisbon undermines workers rights.
Get organised to fight the attacks
WE HAD the An Bord Snip Nua report with it’s proposal for €5.3 billion in cuts. Now we are awaiting the report from the Commission on Taxation. Media “leaks” indicate that its proposals will include a property tax, water charges and a carbon tax and the guarantee of no increase in corporation tax.
Families are already stretched by the impact of the last two budgets, on top of this for many workers in the private sector they have had to endure pay cuts and public servants have had their pay cut through the imposition of the pension levy.
25 years ago: Liverpool – a city that dared to fight
Tony Mulhearn, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
ON 9 July 1984 Liverpool City council, led by Militant (the Socialist Party's predecessor), won a sensational victory over the ruthless Tory government of Margaret Thatcher.
Joe Higgins MEP launches ‘No’ to Lisbon campaign in Strasbourg
Socialist Party promises a vigorous campaign in opposition to neo-liberal agenda represented by Lisbon. Speaking at a press conference in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Joe Higgins launched the Socialist Party's campaign against the Lisbon Treaty.
Building a new mass party for working class people
A SOCIALIST PARTY statement on how a new left can be built.
The Socialist Party warmly welcomes the successes of the People Before Profit Alliance, the Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group as well as the gains for independent lefts and the Workers Party in Cork and Waterford in the local elections. Combined with the excellent results achieved by the Socialist Party in the locals but particularly Joe Higgins’ outstanding victory in the Euro elections, the position of socialists has been significantly strengthened.
Socialist Youth Protest
By Laura Fitzgerald
THE FOREMOST employers’ organisation in the country, IBEC, is becoming increasingly vocal in its condemnation of the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system. The JLC system sets minimum pay and conditions in certain industries, including catering, contract cleaning and the hotel sector.
