Joe Higgins MEP explains his abstention on today’s vote on the Financial Transactions Tax resolution and calls instead for the hedge funds to be taken into public ownership and their resources invested into society for the benefit of all. He criticises the Commission for conspiring with the speculators in their attacks on the... More

At a plenary session, Joe Higgins MEP questions Karl de Gucht, EU Trade Commissioner, on the impact that preferential trade agreements have on the economies of the developing countries around the world as well as the awarding of preferential agreements to countries involved in serious human rights abuses and attacks on minorities... More

“Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Death Row for almost 30 years in Pennsylvania. He’s currently sitting in a very small dark cell on Death Row. He is in solitary confinement as are all on Death Row. Mumia only gets to bathe three times a week. He is allowed outside five days a week for a little over an hour. However, when he is... More

Here we post Joe Higgins’ article from Wednesday January 27th’s edition of the Daily Mail, on the crisis in Haiti. We apologise for the delay in posting the article online. Last week in the European Parliament, during a debate on earthquake in Haiti, I heard what must have been the meanest, most disgusting and begrudging... More

Over the Christmas period, 23 Palestine solidarity activists, among them two Irish women – Zoe Lawlor and Hilary Minch were taken off a bus at al Areish by the Egyptian authorities. These activists were on their way to the Gaza Freedom March due to take place on Thursday 31st December. This march is intended to remember the... More

The health service is a key topic of debate in the US, where Joe is currently visiting, so here he discusses the need for proper, public health care system, which is also very relevant here in Ireland. Right across the United States, a debate is raging over the future of health care. The catalyst is President Obama’s election campaign... More

A socialist activist in Kazakhstan, Ainur Kurmanov has been sentenced to 15 days administrative arrest for peacful protest. Here is Joe’s protest message, and details of how you can send one too. UPDATE 18 Aug 09: Following his release, Ainur sent this message to all those who campaigned against his arrest by the authoritarian... More