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Articles from July 2011
Enough national demonstration, Dublin 16th July 2011
Hundreds took part in a national demonstration to say no to the EU/IMF deal in Dublin last Saturday. People from many groups and none took part from Sligo to Waterford, Wexford, Cork, everywhere!
This demonstration felt different. As the protestors assembled at the GPO everyone sat down and in the spirit of Spain, Egypt and the [...]
Ireland: United Left Alliance Confronts Big Challenges
Dick Nichols, Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal’s correspondent in Europe, has a report on the recent ULA conference on the Links IJSR site, which was originally published on the 16th of July.
Ireland’s seven-month-old United Left Alliance is the “new kid on the block” of European anti-capitalist parties. Launched on November 27 [...]
The July edition of An Phoblacht is out now
The July edition of An Phoblacht is out now, and includes Eoin Ó’Broin on the continuing failures of social housing and a review of Conor McCabe’s Sins of the Father.
Time to look at the systemic issues: Hackgate is not just about one company; it’s about the need for enhanced corporate accountability » Tax Research UK
Time to look at the systemic issues: Hackgate is not just about one company; it’s about the need for enhanced corporate accountability » Tax Research UK
Richard Murphy on the News International #hackgate story. He highlights the complete opacity with which business is conducted, as the only insight into behaviour is through a company's accounts; effectively [...]
Public Spending Cuts are a Political Choice
A neighbour described to me a local community meeting where it was announced that the local Garda station would be closed. Why, the residents asked? A local councillor answered: ‘Because of the EU-IMF bailout.‘ Of course, closure of Garda stations are not in the EU-IMF Memorandum of Understanding. But that’s not the point, is it?
It [...]
Roscommon Protest at Dail 6th July 2011
The Roscommon Hospital Action Committee organised a protest a outside the Dail on Wednesday evening, July 06 as a motion that refers to Roscommon Hospital is being debated and voted on in the Chamber.
Hundreds travelled from all over Roscommon to take part, old and young alike workers, farmers, retired pensioners, kids different abilities except [...]
Don’t (Just) Shoot the Messager
Remember the banking crisis? You would have thought that was the end of the good times for those financial institutions. Er, not really. Its not that the banks themselves had to try hard to change what seemed inevitable. They are laying low alright, but will play a long game. Here in Ireland, a change of [...]
Look Left, Issue 7 Out Now
Editorial: The march has begun
We are beginning to see a concerted workers response to the on-going attacks on our living standards. In the North the Con-Dem cutbacks have provoked strike action by public servants and delivered a clear mes- sage to Dave Cameron and his Tory boys that their agenda of increasing profits by striping [...]
Government of the people (but not for transgendered people)
The news reports in Friday’s papers, if any, on the launch on Thursday of the Report of the Gender Recognition Advisory Group will certainly contain the news that the law will be changed to allow transgendered people have their new gender legally recognised in Ireland. They might also contain information on concerns that have been [...]
