By Conor Burke From 1 July, Irish Water is seeking to implement excessive-use water charges of up to €500 per year. This will come as no great surprise to those of us who highlighted the programme for government agreed between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael back in 2016. The Socialist Party opposed and warned about this element of the legislation ...
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Stampede of non-payment can finish off Irish Water
By Mick Barry TD Support for the boycott of water charges is set to surge in the aftermath of the general election increasing pressure on any potential government to abolish both the charge and Irish Water itself. Pressure on political establishment Water charges became a major issue in the election with pro-water charges parties shocked by the depth of feeling ...
Read More »Anti Austerity Alliance: Public enemy No.1
Why is the capitalist establishment attacking the AAA?
Read More »Build and extend the boycott of water charges
Pile on the pressure against the government
Read More »Anti Austerity Alliance – Organising to challenge the 1%
By Emma Quinn The decision of the DPP to press charges against 23 Jobstown protesters is a serious attack on both the AAA and the water charges movement in general. This coincides with the refusal by Garda to grant a permit to the AAA to collect money door to door in Tallaght – a blatant attempt to prevent the funding ...
Read More »Boycotting water charges-defend & extend the 57%
Government under massive pressure on water charges
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Ignore government bluster…
Read More »57% join boycott of water charge
Michael O’Brien, AAA councillor and Socialist Party member The confidence anti-water charges activists derived from Irish Water and the government’s reticence about revealing the payment figures for the first water bill has proven to be well founded. On Tuesday, an admission came confirming a 57% boycott of the first bill, representing around 860,000 households out of the 1.52 million they ...
Read More »Government’s attacks on RTE an attempt to ‘gag’ anti-water charges campaigns as bills drop
Minister Alan Kelly & Elizabeth Arnett given RTE platforms to use as infomercials for Irish Water
Read More »Leaking of Water Charge Protest video to Irish Independent poses serious questions – who leaked it & to whom?
Paul Murphy TD for the Anti-Austerity Alliance has responded to the leaking of a video to the Irish Independent and said that it posed questions as to who leaked it and to whom it was leaked:
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