Joe Higgins’ article from the Daily Mail 29/07/2011 ‘It’s only €2 per week.’ Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, was speaking on RTE’s Six One News on Tuesday about the new Household Tax which the Fine Gael/Labour Party Government had agreed at Cabinet earlier in the day. Then in that interview of a few minutes [...]
Statement from the Campaign in opposition to household and water charges
On July - 26 - 2011
Anti Household and Water Tax Campaign already established! The Household Tax announced by the government today is a burden too many for the majority of ordinary people in this State. On Saturday, 16 July a meeting of activists and members of left parties and groups, following on from some initial meetings last year, resolved to [...]
VIDEO: Kenny Quizzed on Household Tax Plans
On July - 21 - 2011
The agents of the speculators are the European Union and the IMF, while the Government is their enforcer in ravaging the living standards and hitting the employment prospects of the people. The memorandum dictates that in the fourth review by the end of the year under the heading of fiscal consolidation there shall be a [...]
Take The Press Out of Media Baron’s Hands
On July - 21 - 2011
Joe’s weekly article from the Daily Mail from the 14th July The scandal surrounding the phone hacking activities of The News of the World which has convulsed Britain in the last week, has ripped open the sordid underbelly of the corrupt relationship between this newspaper’s management, the police and the political establishment over there. This [...]
VIDEO: Local Hospital U-turn and lies
On July - 19 - 2011
Joe Higgins questions the Taoiseach about Roscommon hospital and his Party’s break with pre-election commmitments. This is yet another u-turn by the Government and another savage cut on a local community. Fine Gael and Labour are hiding behind HIQA and alleged surveys to justify this brutal downgrading of a community hospital We must build unified [...]
Cloyne report statement
On July - 19 - 2011
Socialist Party deputies call on Minister for Foreign Affairs to Expel Papal Nuncio Responding to the Cloyne Report Joe Higgins and Clare Daly TD said: “Words are inadquate to describe the harm that has been done to those who have been abused by the clergy but I want to put on record my and [...]
Minister Burton’s comments are an arrogant insult to a generation betrayed by the capitalist system
On July - 18 - 2011
The statement by the alleged Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, that young people are choosing to go on the dole as a ‘lifestyle choice’ is an arrogant and gratuitous insult to a generation cruelly betrayed by the current economic system and totally let down by a government that is floundering in face of the [...]
