Workers Rights ULA Finance spokesperson to challenge Bundestag budgetary committee over European narrative on Irish crisis Investors who bought Anglo bonds on secondary markets set to make massive profits at the tax payer’s expense Bondholder payout equivalent to a third of all 2012 Budget cuts 26 Jan 2012
Workers Rights Ireland must break from the death grip of debt and austerity, or face economic depression As Troika arrive in town, Ireland must break from the death grip of debt and austerity, or face economic depression A second bailout would mean even more austerity, more privatisation 10 Jan 2012
Workers Rights ULA Finance spokesperson pledges support for EBS Strikers & condemns political dishonesty of Noonan In a statement today (Tuesday 20th December), Richard Boyd Barrett TD and Finance spokesperson for the United Left Alliance has pledged support for today’s strike by 300 EBS workers, 21 Dec 2011
Workers Rights RESIST THE BUDGET- SOCIETY BEFORE BONDHOLDERS United Left Alliance Rally RESIST THE BUDGET- SOCIETY BEFORE BONDHOLDERS 8pm, Tuesday 13th December Speakers: United Left TDs Followed by social afterwards 12 Dec 2011
Housing Budget 2012 Death by a thousand cuts. This is a mean and cruel budget. Once again, it is those on low to middle incomes, and the poor who will take the biggest hit, people who bear no 6 Dec 2011
Workers Rights The Spectacle of Defiance and Hope STOP TEARING THE HEART OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES Organised by a range of Community & Youth Organisations and supported by IMPACT, SIPTU and UNITE Please support! Defend Child Benefit Patricia 28 Nov 2011
Workers Rights United Left Alliance, SF & Independent TDs urge public to take to the streets this weekend on anti-austerity march At a press conference today TDs from the United Left Alliance, Independents and Sinn Féin joined trade unionists calling for support for a pre-budget anti-austerity march this Saturday in Dublin. 23 Nov 2011
Workers Rights Labour hypocrisy over education cuts Last week’s statement by Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin in which he attacked the decision of the Irish National Teachers Organisation not to cooperate with the exploitative JobBridge scheme 21 Nov 2011
Workers Rights 200 people take part in emergency protest in solidarity with the MV Saoirse and Tahrir Tonight around 200 people took part in an emergency protest, supported by the Irish Anti War Movement & Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign in solidarity with the MV Saoirse and Tahrir 4 Nov 2011