Here Joe Higgins talks about TSB’s increase in mortgage rates, the bank bailout and the cutbacks in the An Bord Snip Nua report. Well it didn’t last long, did it? The banks’ penitential mode I mean. For a few months for the sake of appearances, they were obliged to don the sack cloth and ashes as they outstretched both... More

Dock workers have been on strike at Marine Terminals Ltd against compulsory redundancies and wage cuts for three weeks. Here Joe speaks out against their treatment and calls for all workers to support them. The treatment of these dock workers by Marine Terminals Ltd is an outrageous attack on workers’ rights. The company is looking... More

The first gathering of the newly elected European Parliament in Strasbourg last week provided strong pointers as to how the European Union will be shaped over the next five years. Joe Higgins MEP Speaking in the European Parliament The opening of Parliament was preceded by a flag raising ceremony conducted by the military – a body... More

With its vote to formally support the Lisbon Treaty, the Green Party has now utterly and totally capitulated to the economic and political establishment. The last tiny vestige of independence manifested in last year’s Green Party Conference vote not to formally endorse Lisbon is buried along with the Party’s formal policies... More

Wayne Doherty was shot dead on Saturday night outside his parents’ home in Hartstown, west Dublin. He was thirty two years of age and the father of two children. Every cold blooded murder is a heinous act but when the victim is a loving husband and father, liked and respected in his local community, it adds to the revulsion felt... More

Here Joe Higgins attacks the viscious cuts proposed in the “An Bord Snip Nua”, and outlines why the trade union movement must lead a campaign to defeat the cuts. The trade unions must lead the fight against cuts I am just leaving Strasbourg after 4 days on European Parliament work. In response to my criticisms of the... More

Here Joe Higgins talks about the recent electricians´ strike, the disgusting attacks on it by the bosses and media, and how we can all learn from the success of the electricians. You would think from reading some newspaper articles and editorials that workers go on strike to deliberately wreak havoc on whichever sector they work... More