It is with deep sorrow that we announce that Peter Hadden died at his home in Belfast yesterday (May 5th) after a courageous battle against cancer. Peter played an enormous role in the workers’ movement in Ireland and internationally, and will be remembered with great fondness and admiration by the thousands of workers he struggled [...]
IMPACT circular is a rotten attempt to undermine struggle
On April - 23 - 2010
The circular to IMPACT activists, signed by General Secretary, Peter McLoone on 20th April, is an exercise in ultimately urging workers to accept a rotten pay deal. Mr McLoone, a co-architect of this deal, and the IMPACT leadership sees itself as having to manage the outrage, unforeseen by them, of many of its members at [...]
Free Niall Harnett & Pat O’Donnell now!
On April - 23 - 2010
Wednesday’s jailing of Shell to Sea activist, Niall Harnett, is a travesty of justice and further exposes Shell and the State’s attempts to criminalise peaceful protest and discourage young people and activists from opposing this pipeline. Niall, who was last month sentenced to five months in prison on trumped up assault charges, has been given [...]
Never Again – Report from march and rally in memory of Toyosi
On April - 15 - 2010
On Saturday 10 April in an angry but peaceful protest, up to 3,000 people marched from Parnell Square in Dublin to the Dail to express their disgust at the killing of 15 year old Toyosi Shitta-bey from Tyrellstown in Blanchardstown on Good Friday. The march organised by the Toyosi Memorial Committee was attended by Toyosi’s [...]
Pay Deal? It’s a shakedown by gangsters!
On April - 1 - 2010
A Mafioso who controls your neighbourhood runs into financial difficulties, having lost heavily in the gambling casinos. He owes a fortune to bigger sharks. He shakes you and your neighbours down for 15% of monthly income. Naturally you feel aggrieved so you all get together and form an organisation to see what can be done. [...]
Nationalise the banks under democratic control and management
On March - 29 - 2010
A further €16 billion of taxpayer’s money is due to be put into the country’s biggest banks in the hope that this gift coupled with NAMA will enable the banks to operate profitably and lend. The government’s whole approach is predicated on two fundamental beliefs which I challenge, namely that the bondholders and foreign banks [...]
CPSU Conference fringe meeting – public sector unions must up the ante
On March - 26 - 2010
The wide observance of the work to rule by public service workers is a testament to the anger felt at a slashing of their pay by more than 15% last year. While opprobrium is being poured on low paid workers in the Passport Office, egged on by the media, record losses in Anglo are due [...]
