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CRÈCHE and childcare workers are taking a stand against poverty pay. On the 17 of February at 1pm thousands of these workers who are mostly women will protest outside Dail Eireann. The 25,000 registered childcare professionals are angered by constant demands made on them to upskill and retrain all of which they have to pay […]
The recent crisis in hospital Emergency Departments, with a record 601 people on trolleys across the country, shows how fragile our rundown health service is. The crisis was not without warning. In 2006, former minister for health Mary Harney said it was a ‘national emergency’ when there were 495 patients on trolleys. In 2011, after trolley numbers peaked at 569, former health minister James Reilly said ‘never again’.
The recent crisis in hospital Emergency Departments, with a record 601 people on trolleys across the country, shows how fragile our rundown health service is. The crisis was not without warning. In 2006, former minister for health Mary Harney said it was a ‘national emergency’ when there were 495 patients on trolleys. In 2011, after […]
SINGLE parents campaign group SPARK predict chaos in 2015 with the changes to One Parent Family Payment (OPF) on the way...
SINGLE parents campaign group SPARK predict chaos in 2015 with the changes to One Parent Family Payment (OPF) on the way.. On January 17 in Liberty Hall, SPARK launched their campaign to fight the cuts planned for this year. SPARK is a campaign group of single parents who came together after Budget 2012 to fight […]
ON Thursday 22 January Ireland’s secondary teachers went on strike. More actions are planned.
ON Thursday 22 January Ireland’s secondary teachers went on strike. More actions are planned. They are fighting to defend the integrity and impartiality of the Junior Cert against government plans to make them mark their own students’ exams. This would not increase the workload of already hard pressed teachers but also introduce the element of […]
NURSES in multiple Emergency Departments have balloted for industrial action involving a ‘work to rule’.
NURSES in multiple Emergency Departments have balloted for industrial action involving a ‘work to rule’. The action is being taken in protest at overcrowding specifically in Emergency Departments up and down the country. In early January figures for patients deemed to be in need of admission but who, due to lack of beds, were languishing […]
Freddie Trevaskis Hoskin reviews Russell Brand’s recently published best selling book Revolution .
Freddie Trevaskis Hoskin reviews Russell Brand’s recently published best selling book Revolution . He takes personal anecdotes, spirituality, the ideas of friends and leading political theorists and fashions them into one roller coaster of a general message. This is not to say that the book seems fragmented or cobbled together. Throughout Brand is funny, charming […]
The great 80,000 strong Right2Water demonstration of March 21 proved beyond doubt, if proof was needed, that the anti-water charges movement has not gone away.
The great 80,000 strong Right2Water demonstration of March 21 proved beyond doubt, if proof was needed, that the anti-water charges movement has not gone away. Now, as bills start to go out in April the main focus is going to be on the numbers refusing to pay. It is clear that if even a significant […]
The new Liberation campaign had its official launch on Monday 16 April. The campaign has been set up by LGBTQ members of the SWP and their allies in order to bring radical ideas into the current campaign around marriage equality.
Liberation Campaign Launched | Freddie Trevaskis Hoskin | Socialist Worker 178 The new Liberation campaign had its official launch on Monday 16 April. The campaign has been set up by LGBTQ members of the SWP and their allies in order to bring radical ideas into the current campaign around marriage equality. While advocating a yes vote […]
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With hundreds of thousands of people having taken to the streets in the great revolt over water charges and austerity as a whole and with a general election looming there is an urgent need for the left to unite its forces. In this context the People Before Profit Alliance has issued an ‘Appeal for a […]
