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Joe Higgins on SIPTU’s support for Sinn Fein
During the last seven years of austerity, the Irish Congress of Trades Unions (ICTU) and its biggest component,…
Agreeing Not To Agree, Again – The Stormont House Agreement
By Michael Cleary On December 23rd the five Executive parties and the British and Irish governments signed off…
Northern Ireland: 20 years after the ceasefires
In 1994, the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries called ceasefires. Four years later the Good Friday agreement was declared to mark the end of the ‘Troubles'.
Northern Ireland: Draft Budget is a neo-liberal programme of austerity
The passing of the Draft Budget by the Stormont Executive has blown apart the pretense of opposition to cuts by the politicians in the Assembly. By voting for the Draft Budget, the DUP and Sinn Féin are agreeing to make horrific cuts to vital services at a time when they are needed most.
AAA opposes South Dublin County Council budget
AAA opposes double property tax robbery in budget while Sinn Fein, Labour, Greens vote in favour. Out of the €32.65m collected in Property Tax in the County, only a meagre €2.5m is kept in SDCC.
How the AAA won a By-Election and the way forward for the Left
Stunning Dublin By-Election victory, huge water protests and a new chapter for working class resistance
AAA – building a movement for the 99%
What party represents the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets on 11 October and 1 November (and the many others not on those marches who applaud them)? It's obvious there is a gaping political vacuum, with no major party or movement basing itself on fighting the cause of workers, the unemployed, pensioners and young people.
Cover up exposes paramilitarism – justice for Maíria Cahill
Just like the Catholic Church and the Irish and British States before them, Sinn Féin and the IRA have been exposed for covering up sexual abuse in order to protect its own members and their organisation.
Stunning by-election victory: a blow against water charges
It will be a day that's remembered for years to come in Ireland, 12 October 2014. An estimated 100,000 marched in Dublin against the hated Water Charges and Paul Murphy, Anti Austerity Alliance (AAA) candidate, won a By-Election by leading the call for a mass campaign of non-payment and active resistance to this double tax.
