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The Civil Marriage Equality Referendum is about EQUALITY, JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS.
VOTE YES TO CIVIL MARRIAGE EQUALITY ON 22nd MAY
In a statement People Before Profit spokesperson and general election candidate, Cllr Bríd Smith, has described the reports that rental property supply is the lowest it has been in a decade a shameful indictment on the government and in particular on the Minister Alan Kelly. Cllr Smith pointed to the failing and the inaction of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Alan Kelly as a factor which is contributing the crisis of homelessness in this country.
On Mayday, the five unions fighting water charges held a conference in Dublin. The aim was to bring union members, community groups and political representatives into dialogue around a progressive alternative to the current establishment. This is an exciting prospect as R2W seeks to build a political alliance that reflects the anti-austerity struggles of the last eight months. To this end, around 200 people were invited, split roughly into the three main groups.
In a statement on the government’s new push of private health insurance Adrienne Wallace People Before Profit candidate in the upcoming Carlow-Kilkenny by-election said, “The reliance on the private sector to provide public goods and the privatisation myth has got to end. Privatisation costs the general public more. The private health insurance model serves the people at the top, the middle men, and the private health insurance companies only. What we need is a properly funded and working public health service for all and it can be done”
In a statement, People Before Profit candidate in the upcoming Carlow-Kilkenny by-election, Adrienne Wallace has condemned the entrenchment of the two-tier health system. On the 30th April the deadline for people to sign up for private health insurance and avoid a “late signup fee” passed. The Lifetime Community Rating will penalise people over 34 years of age who have miss the deadline.
The National Transport Authority tendering plan will decimate workers livelihoods and do nothing to improve public transport.
Bus workers are absolutely right to strike over the NTA proposal to tender out 10% of Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann routes. Despite claims that this isn’t privatisation, it means private companies will be handed routes currently operated by the semi state companies’ and even handed the buses that are currently owned by the state.
The following statement has been agreed between the People Before Profit Alliance, the Anti-Austerity Alliance and some independent activists including Cllr Brendan Young.
The anti-water charges movement, which has seen hundreds of thousands mobilise and become active in campaigning, has transformed politics in this country. It has forced climbdowns by the government and given people confidence and hope that the austerity agenda can be defeated. It has opened a potential to build a significant Left, working class political movement.
Last Saturday saw thousands marching against the hated and unjust water charges yet again. Alongside this great demonstration of people power many were also protesting against TTIP, or the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, as part of a massive worldwide “Global Day of Action” against it and similar 'free' trade agreements, with over 750 protests worldwide.
Irish Water has been set up to get us to pay another double tax. In this pamphlet Cllr Brid Smith of People Before Profit explains how water is becoming the new oil, how the set up of Irish Water has nothing to do with ‘conservation’- it’s about taking money from the majority and preparing the ground for privatisation. She looks at the experience of Bolivia which shows that people power can fight back and we can win.
The government and Irish Water often boast about a high registration rate for Irish water.
People before Profit has information that these registrations of names and addresses were not all registrations made by the occupier.
Revelations about Eamonn Casey point yet again to the gross hypocrisy of the Bishops.These are mostly elderly males who think they have every right to
Calls For Broad Mobilisation To Face Down Far-Right Terror Campaign The riot and arson in Coolock today is another shocking development driven by far right
On the back of the recent election results in France, where the French left united around radical demands and came out on top, People Before
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