October, 2009 Posts

The trade unions need to be a movement again

Low and middle income workers who are members of trade union would have been horrified as the salaries of many senior trade union leaders were publicised in the past week. Workers struggling to make ends meet on anything from a yearly income of €20,000 up to the €38,000 or so before tax, that is the average industrial wage, will... More

New programme for government – More Green betrayal

When it comes to cynical posturing in Irish political life, there are no more shameless practitioners than the leaders of the Green Party. Once the Lisbon Treaty results were in and digested, the Greens took to the public stage with gusto to trumpet the renegotiation of their Programme for Government with Fianna Fail. Indeed, it... More

Water Charges Will Spark A Water War

PAYE workers and hard pressed families will be outraged to see that the Green Party and Fianna Fail have agreed to reintroduce water charges. The revised Programme for Government is clearly a continuation of Government policy of landing the price of the crash in the capitalist economy squarely on the shoulders of working people. Water... More

Joe Higgins: After Lisbon Yes result – what does it mean?

The Irish people were showered with promises of economic recovery, investment and jobs if they voted ‘Yes’ to the Lisbon Treaty. These lavish promises will come back to haunt the current Government in particular. However, it wasn’t just the government – whose survival depended on the outcome of the vote –... More

Speech in Euro Parliament on Lisbon Result & Aer Lingus Job Cuts

Yesterday Joe Higgins spoke in the European Parliament, reacting to the Lisbon result and raising the disgusting decision by Aer Lingus to sack 700 employees. Here is the video and transcript of his speech. Chairman, I opposed the Lisbon referendum from a left and socialist perspective and reject the intervention of xenophobes and... More

Aer Lingus: After Lisbon, the Job Massacre Continues

Merely days after the Lisbon referendum was passed, Aer Lingus have announced plans to cut almost 700 jobs and implement wage cuts of up to 30%. Here Joe Higgins & Socialist Party councillor and Aer Lingus Shop Steward Clare Daly respond. Last week CEO Christoph Mueller cynically circulated an e-mail to all staff promoting the... More

Lisbon vote not endorsement for hated government

A significant 2/1 majority, on a higher turnout, passed the Lisbon Treaty overturning the decision of June 2008. It is clear that the economic crisis served to shift opinion across the board to a yes vote because people felt that passing the Treaty might boost Ireland’s prospects for economic recovery. Last year Lisbon was rejected... More

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