Did the Cabinet decide today to close down army barracks in Clonmel, Mullingar, Castlebar and Cavan? What is the rationale for this proposal when there are no savings to the State? For the 600 soldiers and their families, most of whom are workers in uniform as ordinary rank and file members, this will be an [...]
Video: Joe Higgins challenges Taoiseach on job losses and hardship to families over closure of Barracks
On November - 15 - 2011
Joe Higgins’ opening contribution at National Forum of Campaign Against Household and Water Tax
On September - 13 - 2011
Joe Higgins’ opening contribution at the National Forum of the Campaign Against Household and Water Tax last Saturday Joe discusses lessons from previous campaigns, including the Anti-Bin and Water Charges campaigns, the importance of the campaign being centred around non-payment and how the structres of the campaign must be fully democratic to encourage participation of [...]
NATO Intervention in Lybia is Attempt to Control Arab Revolutions
On August - 27 - 2011
Joe Higgins’ article from the Daily Mail 26/08/2011 European and American big business interests are already jockeying shamelessly to grab what they can in post Gadaffi Libya in terms of lucrative oil and reconstruction contracts. Wednesday’s British Independent sums it up in an article entitled , ‘Dash for profit in post-war Libya carve up.’ ‘British [...]
Real Debate Needed Over Presidential Election
On August - 20 - 2011
Even before they start their Third Level or working lives, the 55,000 students who received their Leaving Cert results on Wednesday have done the people of the State a service. Acres of coverage of their achievements meant that, yesterday, most of the main national newspapers, including The Mail, were Presidential campaign free zones. What a [...]
Opinion Piece: London Riots
On August - 13 - 2011
Joe Higgins’ article from the Daily Mail 12/08/2011 ‘Mob Rule’, ‘Mindless Destruction’, ‘Wreckers’, ‘Looters’ ‘Four Days of Mayhem’. Here’s a one mark question. Headlines like those above were emblazoned across much of the capitalist press this week. Were they referring to, a) those convulsing urban areas of England with rioting or, b) those convulsing the [...]
Voters Should Save Decided Norris fate
On August - 6 - 2011
Joe Higgins’ article from the Daily Mail 05/08/2011 ‘Faulty judgement and anti Israeli bias leave Norris unfit for Aras run,’ was the bald headline over an article by columnist Bruce Arnold in Monday’s Irish Independent. It began, ‘David Norris is not a suitable person to stand for election to the office of President of this [...]
Special Needs & Education protest – Wednesday 13 July
On July - 11 - 2011
On Wednesday 13 July, parents, teachers, special needs assistants, and pupils, will gather outside the Dail in a Day of Protest to demand a reversal of the devastating cutbacks that the government is standing over in primary education, particularly in relation to services for children with additional needs. The protest action is coinciding with a [...]
