Joe Higgins will be speaking in Limerick on Tuesday November 2nd at 7:45pm in Pery’s Hotel (Glentworth Street) at a public rally launching the Socialist Party’s election challenge in the city. The rally, on “Fighting the Cuts & Building the Alternative” will also be addressed by Cian Prendiville, the Socialist Party’s first ever Dail candidate [...]
Any changes to Lisbon Treaty must be put to referendum
On October - 29 - 2010
The proposed further revision of the Lisbon Treaty to set up a “permanent rescue system” comes only a year after the Irish people were forced to vote on it for a second time. The Socialist Party and others on the left sought during the Lisbon debate to highlight the further concentration of economic decision making [...]
Government running scared at possibility of referendum on further EU treaty changes!
On October - 29 - 2010
The government and senior diplomats in the Department of Foreign Affairs are dreading the possibility of having to run another referendum on treaty changes that will allow Ireland and other countries who fail to meet the deficit GDP ratio targets to have their voting rights in the EU Commission removed as punishment. The key driving [...]
The callous treatment of Laura Ashley workers
On October - 28 - 2010
Dublin’s Grafton Street has long been a major showpiece for what Ireland’s retailing business has to sell to the public in terms of consumer goods, from a needle, not so much to the proverbial anchor as to the €5,000 designer handbag. This week, however, it is witness to another side of retailing – the mean [...]
Fingal County Council hiring of photographer for €9,471 is indefensible
On October - 27 - 2010
The decision of Fingal County Council officials to hire a photographer and have the photos taken of the 24 newly elected or re-elected Fingal County Councillors last year and then have the photos subsequently printed and framed at a cost of €9,471 is an indefensible extravagance in which the councillors themselves were entirely unwitting participants. [...]
Kazakh Socialist addresses European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights
On October - 26 - 2010
Kazakh Socialist and human rights activist, Ainur Kurmanov, addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights about the dictatorship in Kazakhstan and human rights abuses there. For more information on campaigns and struggles in Kazakhstan, visit SocialistWorld.net – Kazakhstan and Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan The full video of the session will be uploaded shortly Share on [...]
David Begg wrong to blame workers and unemployed for their alleged unwillingness to fight
On October - 26 - 2010
The recent reported remarks of David Begg, when answering criticism of ICTU’s lack of a fighting lead throughout this economic crisis, are absolutely galling. His assertion that Irish working people and the unemployed are conservative and unwilling to struggle like their French counterparts ignores completely his and the rest of the trade union leadership’s role [...]
