Tuesday, May 22nd 2012
From the IPSC…
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is proud to present a book launch tour by Irish journalist and author David Cronin who has just published his excellent exposé of the nature of the relationship between the European Union and the Apartheid State of Israel. The book, Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation, will become [...]
Eurozone crisis: what the analysts say | Business | guardian.co.uk
Good grief…pull up a chair & watch the crisis unfold.
…We believe we have only seen the opening act, with the rest of the plot still evolving. Although we have not had a sovereign default in the advanced economies since the west German sovereign default in 1948, [...]
EU SILC Data Published Thursday 25th November « European Anti Poverty Network Ireland
According to the statistics released in the CSO EU – Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for 2009 progress made towards the target of eliminating consistent poverty by 2016 took a turn for the worse when levels rose from 4.2% in 2008 [...]
‘Cause I don’t. Commissioner Rehn announces on Sunday that he ‘strongly’ supports the Government’s National Recovery Plan. He even said:
Implementing the plan will offer a “sound basis for stable, job-creating growth.”
Then, on Monday, he announces he doesn’t believe the growth rates contained in the Plan. In fact, he so disbelieved them that [...]
The Real News interviews Leo Panitch on the Irish crisis. Panitch is the author of many books and articles and is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. We’ve reviewed the most recent edition of his Renewing Socialism and In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives, which was published [...]
Given the current state of financialisation of society, access to basic financial services can facilitate the effective management of one´s income as well as helping provide for the future. The can also be of assistance in helping people emerge from difficult economic circumstances as well as act as a safeguard against falling into poverty. For [...]
From the Unite Trade Union….
Today Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary of the trade union UNITE, sent a letter to the leaders of the opposition parties - Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Fein. In it he called on them to make clear that they will not be bound by the terms of the IMF/EU bail-out. He further [...]
The leader of the UNITE trade union in Ireland, Jimmy Kelly, has written to each of the opposition party leaders calling on them to reject the agreement announced last night between the Irish government and the EU and IMF.
He has further asked for commitments that banking debt will be written down and that the cash [...]
The imposed “solution” to the Irish state’s growing and deepening crisis is to make every person an indentured servant to the needs and interests of EU finance houses, in particular to German banks. The National Pension Fund is now to be squandered to bail out banks that should have been allowed to go to the [...]
It is understandable that a large section of the population welcomes the coming of the IMF and the EU. They can’t do any worse at running our economy and banks into the ground as the Government have. And maybe along the way they can tell us a little truth. [...]
