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Jobstown
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Review: ‘The Guards: Inside the K’
By Dean O’Donnell The first episode of Virgin Media’s new 5-part docuseries The Guards: Inside the K aired…
Maurice McCabe and the rot inside the state
By James McCabe Whistleblower Maurice McCabe’s efforts to expose corruption in the local Garda force in Cavan was…
Breaking the rules of a rigged game – join the socialists today!
By Eddie McCabe It’s not a coincidence that three Socialist Party members who are Solidarity public reps were…
Protesting is not a crime: #JobstownNotGuilty
The heinous targeting of Maurice McCabe and other Garda whistle blowers and the targeting of the Jobstown protestors…
Maurice McCabe smear campaign: Rotten state exposed
By Conor Payne The revelations about the smear campaign against Maurice McCabe have lifted the lid on the…
The left, the right and David Quinn
Right wing columnist, David Quinn warned in the Irish Independent (13 January, 2016) that, “We should be more worried about rise of hard left than tiny alt-right.”
Sean Fitzpatrick trial: Jury selection of a different kind
By Councillor Matt Waine On 3 October, the various defendants in the Jobstown trial, accused of falsely imprisoning…
#JobstownNotGuilty trial: Criminalising protest must be resisted
The clock continues to tick down towards the biggest political trial in decades. In April 2017, the first trial of adults for the false imprisonment of Joan Burton and her assistant will commence in the Criminal Courts of Justice. In advance of that, on 19 September, a 17 year old will go on trial in the Children's Court for the same offences.
Jobstown is not guilty: Fight this criminal injustice
Text of the Socialist Party leaflet given out a #JobstownNotGuilty protest today. The criminalisation of those who…
Establishment criminalises protest : Defend the Jobstown 27
AAA TD and Socialist Party member Paul Murphy on the political policing against anti-water charges activists