The People Before Profit Alliance welcomes the reversal of the decision to drastically curtail the Derry-Dublin bus service. Following the revelation of a plan to
Today, Friday 10 December 2010, saw another magnificent protest by the school students of Derry to Save EMA.
At 11.30 am over 1000 students across Derry walked out of their schools. Many of the students risked suspension or other punishment from their schools for doing so.
Each school marched to Guildhall Square. There they heard speeches from representatives from several schools, including Micheál Kelly, a student at St Columb’s.
They then set off again on a march right into Derry city centre.
Students filled the whole length of Shipquay Street from the Diamond to Guildhall Square. Cars pulled to the side and drivers beeped their horns in support as pedestrians stopped and applauded.
Derry School Students Bring City To A Standstill
The march stopped at St Columb’s Hall, right between the Foyleside and Richmond shopping centres.
The students had now brought the whole city centre to a standstill.
The packed streets responded to more speeches from school representatives with mass cheering and chanting of “EMA! EMA! EMA! EMA!”
Saturday 11th Dec. 4 p.m. White’s Hotel, the Oscar Wilde Room. Please come along if you wish to help out during the campaign. All welcome.
This December’s budget has once again attacked the majority of working class people. We have had two years of austerity measures, with social welfare, health, education and public sector spending all savagely reduced. And now we have it again: social welfare cut by 8 per week; child benefit cut by 10 per month; carer’s allowance cut again.
Last Tuesday on Budget Day students from Moyle Park and Colaiste Brid in Clondalkin area organised a walk out of their classes in protest to
The People Before Profit Alliance in Dundalk held a one hour protest outside the Minister for justice and Law Reform’s residence on Friday 15th of October. The alliance, composing members of the Dundalk community, held the protest outside Dermot Ahern’s Blackrock residence from five pm until six pm in an effort to highlight the closure of the accident and emergency services at Louth County hospital, which has been downgraded to a minor injuries clinic.
People Before Profit Alliance’s Eamonn McCann has called on Translink to “think again” on the plan to reduce the Derry-Dublin bus service. “Cutting the number
Budget protects the wealthy and contains no jobs
Unions must call general strike to allow public anger to be expressed
In a statement, the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) have described the budget delivered today by the Fianna Fail Green government as a shameful attack on the vulnerable and least well-off in Irish society.
Cllr Joan Collins said
“This budget of many cuts will be a step too far for many families. With attacks on social welfare, the minimum wage, child benefit and training allowances and increases in taxes for the lower paid, workers and the unemployed will be faced with stark choices. It has become increasingly difficult to pay all the bills, feed the family and get the kids educated. This heartless government have made the decision to drive more families and their children into poverty”
PBPA said that government claims about necessary “adjustments” to deal with the current economic and financial crisis were utterly dishonest spin to mask a deliberate and ruthless decision to make working people and the poor pay for the crisis, while protecting the super-wealthy and those responsible for the economic crash.
Speakers: Mariana Carneiro (Editor of Left Bloc newspaper, Portugal) Jimmy Kelly (Regional Secretary, Unite Trade Union) Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit Alliance)
There is a very festive fundraiser for the election campaign of Annette Mooney (pictured below) to be had on the 11th of Dec at the
Promises to stand with local people to fight tooth and nail to block ecocidal megaproject planned by Google in Grangecastle in South Dublin. New figures
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
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