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Water charges revolt
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Anti Austerity Alliance: Public enemy No.1
Why is the capitalist establishment attacking the AAA?
Build and extend the boycott of water charges
Pile on the pressure against the government
Water charges: Why non-payment is essential
By Kevin McLoughlin “If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.” It is…
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
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.
“Dogs of war” unleashed in Jobstown
By Mick Barry The arrest of 21 anti water charges campaigners in Dublin, the threat to arrest a…
Free the Jobstown 4!
Blatant political policing will fail to stem the impending mass boycott of bills
Only 47% register with Irish water
Press Statement: Anti-Austerity Alliance (2nd February 2015) CSO & EPA studies show Irish Water understating by 260,000 the…
Water charges: Mass non-payment is key to victory
By David Vallely With the New Year upon us, a new phase in the water charges struggle has…
The movement from below – working class self-organisation
In the last six years, austerity was imposed without the same level of protest as took place in other countries. Working class people were reeling from the shock of the recession and, of course, given no lead by the union leadership. Now, the establishment's claims of economic recovery have given more confidence to people to challenge austerity, crystallising around the hated water charges.
