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Can Sinn Féin deliver for the 99%?
By Laura Fitzgerald Unfortunately, despite Sinn Féin signing up to the Right2Change initiative that gives a different appearance,…
Simply obscene – the wealth of the 1%
The rising tide of capitalist inequality
Review: “Ireland’s Great Wealth Divide” with David McWilliams (RTE 21 September)
Review of documentary on inequality with David McWilliams (RTE 21 September)
Profiteering makes houses unaffordable
How the profiteering of developers is making homes unaffordable
Why this rotten system can’t be reformed
By Kevin McLoughlin On 12 July in Paraguay the Pope told young people to “make a mess” in…
#Refugeelivesmatter- Defend the right to asylum
Build homes for all-challenge this racist system
Top 50 US companies hoarding $1 trillion in cash
By Manus Lenihan The fifty biggest companies in the United States are sitting on piles of money adding…
The State – a tool to defend the rule of the 1%
The Occupy movement that began in the US in 2011 coined the terms, the 1% and the 99%. The movement was evocatively referring to the existence of a ruling class, encapsulated in the term the 1% a – the super-rich elite that owns and controls the key global wealth, resources and means of production.
Review “The Entrepreneurial State” by Mariana Mazzucato
By Tim Heffernan Somewhere along the line, we’ve all heard these arguments in favour of capitalism: progress is…
Blog from Athens: Paul Murphy on Syriza victory
The ideological wall saying ‘There Is No Alternative’ to austerity has been decisively breached. In so doing, they have blown a breath of fresh air across Europe – giving hope in Ireland, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere that the austerity nightmare can be brought to an end.
