Talk of recovery is everywhere! There are those recent CSO recovery figures, heavily distorted by multinational tax evasion, claiming that the Irish economy grew last year by an astonishing 26%. There’s recovery too for some of those builders and developers who crashed the economy, offloaded their debts to NAMA and are now back in business.
Talk of recovery is everywhere! There are those recent CSO recovery figures, heavily distorted by multinational tax evasion, claiming that the Irish economy grew last year by an astonishing 26%. There’s recovery too for some of those builders and developers who crashed the economy, offloaded their debts to NAMA and are now back in business. […]
The threat to throw families out of their homes following a deal between a vulture fund and a pair of greedy developers exposes the most unacceptable face of capitalism. Tenants of 208 houses in Cruise Park, Tyrrelstown residents are receiving eviction notices to quit their rented accommodation from Twinlite, a company owned by indebted developers […]
Michael Wallace reports on the recent People Before Profit policy conference held in Dublin on the 19/20 September.
Michael Wallace reports on the recent People Before Profit policy conference held in Dublin on the 19/20 September. In contrast to the establishment parties’ recent ‘think-ins’ conducted behind closed doors, the People Before Profit Conference on a Radical Alternative Vision for Ireland was open to all. And it gave people the opportunity to discuss, debate […]
Here is Socialist Worker’s sample of a few of the rogues who rule Irish society. It could easily have been much larger. Just think of who we left out – Bertie Aherne, Seanie Fitzpatrick, Michael O’Leary, James Reilly and lots more!
Here is Socialist Worker’s sample of a few of the rogues who rule Irish society. It could easily have been much larger. Just think of who we left out – Bertie Aherne, Seanie Fitzpatrick, Michael O’Leary, James Reilly and lots more! Michael Buckley: Tony Soprano wannabe Ruthless boss of Greyhound Recycling who locked his workers […]
Government ministers, right-wing economists and the media are telling us an economic ‘recovery’ is well under way.
Government ministers, right-wing economists and the media are telling us an economic ‘recovery’ is well under way. We are being hit from all directions by self-congratulatory propaganda from our rulers on how austerity is a distant memory now that ‘we’ve turned the corner.’ However, for the majority of working class people who continue to struggle […]
Ireland has enjoyed a relatively quiet winter but in early 2014, the country was lashed by extreme storms that caused record tides, severe flooding and damage to homes and lives.
Michael Wallace explains why the world’s weather is going crazy Ireland has enjoyed a relatively quiet winter but in early 2014, the country was lashed by extreme storms that caused record tides, severe flooding and damage to homes and lives. While these storms have receded for now, other parts of the world are being hammered […]
A very successful conference on the housing crisis organised by People Before Profit has launched a broad Right2Housing campaign of resistance to homelessness and repossession, and for decent housing for all.
A very successful conference on the housing crisis organised by People Before Profit has launched a broad Right2Housing campaign of resistance to homelessness and repossession, and for decent housing for all. In a packed room in Dublin’s Academy Plaza Hotel, guest speaker Andrew McLaren from TCD told the conference that the decision to leave housing […]
