Socialist Party TD Clare Daly calls for support for La Senza workers in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre and Cork Responding to the occupation by workers of the La Senza lingerie outlet in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre following the sudden announcement of the firm’s closure of all its Irish operations Socialist Party/United Left Alliance TD Clare [...]
Press Statement: Socialist Party TD Clare Daly calls for support for La Senza workers in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre and Cork
Comment: There is an alternative to the chaos of the market system
Roger Altman was the Deputy Finance Minister in the government of US President Bill Clinton in 1993/’94. He is now an investment banker and a member of the international big business think tank, The Bilderberg Group . Not a radical socialist then. In an astonishingly frank column in the Financial Times on December 1 last [...]
Press Statement: Figures for company collapses in 2011 further testimony of the failure of austerity
Government’s projected savings of €185 million from cut in employer redundancy rebate indicates FG/Labour expect over 40,000 further private sector job losses Effective state ownership via NAMA of companies like Vita Cortex should result in production being maintained and jobs saved or created Responding to the research produced by Vision-net which looked at the impact [...]
Comment: Review of turbulent 2011
On this, the second last day of 2011, we look back on a year marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in this country also. On the wider international stage we had the heroic and repeated mobilisation of millions [...]











