The following resolution was passed at the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party in Ireland is affiliated to. It gives an analysis of the potential for a new crisis for the world capitalist economy and the impact this will have on the consciousness of the ...
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The economy: Precarious, neo-liberal growth fuels inequality
By Paul Murphy TD “Irish households have ‘never been better off’” blared the Irish Independent headline on 8 January 2018, citing an IBEC economic review. A major propaganda drive is underway to suggest that the ‘good times’ are back and that the crisis of capitalism in Ireland over the past decade was nothing more than a blip away from the ...
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