Sale of the state’s “family silver” will be a nightmare for ordinary people
All citizens who value the need for publicly owned vital infrastructure would have experienced a shudder of fearful anticipation last month when the Minister for Finance established a Review Group on State Assets and Liabilities. The Department of Finance Press brief’s opening sentence seemed innocuous enough, stating that the... More
Privatisation of VHI as discredited as that of Telecom Eireann and Team Aer Lingus
The announcement yesterday by Minister Harney and the Taoiseach that VHI will be privatised over the next two years is a further installment in this government’s destruction of the very idea of a public Health Service. It is callously throwing hundreds of thousands of people, especially the old and the sick, to the mercy of... More
GUE/NGL Press Release – Relentless EU dismantling of postal services will hit both workers and customers
Opening today’s GUE/NGL group conference on the liberalisation of postal services, Irish MEP Joe Higgins said citizens were being hit hard by the Commission’s ongoing drive to privatise Europe’s postal services. “This relentless process of liberalisation totally ignores the impact on workers and customers... More
EuroParl TV Lisbon Debate
The video of a debate broadcast on European Parliament TV discussing the Lisbon Treaty is now online. DO YOU AGREE? SUPPORT JOE & THE SOCIALIST PARTY? Subscribe to Joe's Newsletter | Donate | Get Involved | Join Read More →
Joe Higgins Speaks at Launch of Broad Left Anti-Lisbon Campaign
Joe Higgins spoke at a press conference today launching the broad left Vote No to Lisbon (SayNo.ie, formerly Campaign Against the EU Constitution). Click Image to Watch RTE News Coverage of Launch Joe was intereviewed on RTE radio about the launch of the campaign and why he will be campaigning against Lisbon. Listen to the interview... More
Video: Joe Higgins’ first speech in the European Parliament
Here in Joe Higgins´ first speech in the European Parliament he talks about the grand coalition between the right wing EPP and supposed ‘social democrats’ in Europe, and the Lisbon Treaty. For more on the grqnd coalition, read Joe’s press statement on this. For more on the Lisbon Treaty his recent article on the... More
Lisbon: Round Two – A bosses charter, despite ‘guarantees’
Less than two weeks after the Euro Election campaign a Euro related charade is about to be visited on the Irish people. We are now being told that the FiannaFail/Green Party Coalition Government will present us with the Lisbon Treaty for a vote in late September or early October as soon as the EU Heads of State agree ‘legal guarantees’... More
