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	<title>Joe Higgins TD</title>
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	<description>Socialist Party TD for Dublin West</description>
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		<title>CAHWT Press Statement: Household Tax registrati​on headache for government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOUSEHOLD &#038; WATER TAXES (CAHWT) One month on: mass boycott of Household Tax on course Mass boycott of registration for the Household Tax is on course, based on the government&#8217;s own figures of around 4% after the first month. 96% of householders have not signed up, with an actual slow-down in the rate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/02/cahwt-press-statement-household-tax-registrati%e2%80%8bon-headache-for-government/</link>
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		<title>Video: Joe Higgins tells Taoiseach Austerity Treaty will have a disastrous impact on ordinary Europeans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the truth not that the fiscal compact is a treaty for permanent austerity and therefore provides for permanent attacks on the living standards and public services of ordinary Europeans? Is the reality not that the obsession of the Government at the summit was to secure a wording for the austerity treaty that it hoped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/02/video-joe-higgins-tells-taoiseach-austerity-treaty-will-have-a-disastrous-impact-on-ordinary-europeans/</link>
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		<title>Video: Joe Higgins addresses a packed Anti-Household Tax meeting held at the Imperial Hotel, Cork City.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Higgins speaks to a packed Anti-Household Tax meeting held at the Imperial Hotel, Cork City on January 26th 2012. FAQ on the Household Tax 1. What is the Household tax? The household tax is a new tax that every home owner in the country is to be charged, the Fine Gael and Labour government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/video-joe-higgins-addresses-a-packed-anti-household-tax-meeting-held-at-the-imperial-hotel-cork-city-on-the/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Labour Activation Programe an insult to unemployed workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week the Minister for Social Protection is to unveil a new initiative aimed at reducing cutting the horrific figure of 440,000 people unemployed or seriously underemployed in this State. It is to be called Pathways to Work. But whereas most people might think that this should involve the creation of tens of thousands of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/comment-labour-activation-programe-an-insult-to-unemployed-workers/</link>
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		<title>Video: Joe Higgins tells Tanaiste not to scapegoat the unemployed for economic crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent days press reports on briefings given by the Minister for Social Protection and senior officials in her Department have pointed to the beginning of a campaign to exert pressure on and harass unemployed people. Apparently, the Minister is to unveil next week a programme entitled, Pathways to Work. It has been stated every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/video-joe-higgins-tells-tanaiste-not-to-scapegoat-the-unemployed-for-economic-crisis/</link>
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		<title>CAHWT Press Statement: Today​&#8217;s Anglo payment is 8 years of Household Taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Taxes (CAHWT) Press statement 25 Jan 2012 &#8211; issued after protest at Anglo Irish Bank offices, Dublin, by Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Taxes. The protest was supported by 9 TDs backing the non-payment of the household tax. Single Anglo payment dwarfs household &#038; austerity taxes Witholding Household Tax can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/cahwt-press-statement-today%e2%80%8bs-anglo-payment-is-8-years-of-household-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Press Statement: Case of Louise Bayliss intended to discourage whistleblo​wing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Responding to the case of Louise Bayliss whose contract at the Irish Advocacy Network will not be renewed because of her role in exposing the mistreatment of psychiatric patients in the care of the HSE Joe Higgins TD said: &#8220;There has been no delivery yet on whistleblowing legislation. Indeed the Labour Party presented such legislation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/press-statement-case-of-louise-bayliss-intend/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Savage cuts to education for children, yet more bailouts for Anglo Bondholders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday thousands of parents, teachers and pupils staged a passionate demonstration at the Department of Education in Dublin. They were from schools benefiting from the programme known as ‘Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools’ or DEIS which was designed to counter the many ill effects on children living in areas of high unemployment and poverty. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/comment-savage-cuts-to-education-for-children-yet-more-bailouts-for-anglo-bondholders/</link>
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		<title>CAHWT Press Statement: CAHWT vows to build mass non-registration by St Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Taxes (CAHWT) Campaign goes nationwide as 97.5% still not paying Household Tax * CAHWT vows to build mass non-registration by St Patrick&#8217;s Day * Nationwide meetings, poster and newsletter launched The Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Taxes today (Friday 20 Jan) launched a national poster and 250,000 newsletters to build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/cahwt-press-statement-cahwt-vows-to-build-mass-non-registration-by-st-patricks-day/</link>
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		<title>CAHWT Press Statement: Minister Hogan’s comments vindicate campaigns warning of €1,000 per</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Press Release Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes Minister Hogan’s comments vindicate campaigns warning of €1,000 per year charge on hard pressed families Household tax the first step to property and water taxes The Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes today claimed that Government plans to introduce water taxes by 2014 mean that ordinary households [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/cahwt-press-statement-minister-hogan%e2%80%99s-comments-vindicate-campaigns-warning-of-e1000-per/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Inspirational La Senza workers show way forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you work with a ‘prestigious’ lingerie retail chain. You have given many years of loyal service for a very average wage. You have gone the extra mile for the company when you were asked. In particular over the Christmas period and particularly during the Sales you worked flat out. And then you came to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/comment-inspirational-la-senza-workers-show-way-forward/</link>
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		<title>CAHWT Press Statement: Anti-Household Tax Membership Drive to Fund Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Charges (CAHWT) Press statement 12 Jan 2012 Anti-Household Tax Membership Drive to Fund Campaign Mick Murphy, of the Fundraising group of the Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Taxes, responds to media commentary about the €5 membership card for the Campaign: &#8220;All the Campaigns against the various attempts to introduce household [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/press-statement-cahwt-anti-household-tax-membership-drive-to-fund-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Video: Joe Higgins urges Minister to ensure La Senza workers&#8217; entitlements are met</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I welcome the representatives of the La Senza workers to the Visitors’ Gallery and I am in solidarity with the Vita Cortex workers suffering from similar high-handed disgusting treatment. It is breathtaking in its arrogance and disrespect towards the up to 120 mainly female workers in the La Senza lingerie stores in Dublin and Cork [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/video-joe-higgins-urges-minister-to-ensure-la-senza-workers-entitlements-are-met/</link>
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		<title>Video: Joe Higgins warns austerity will further prolong crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does the Taoiseach agree that, for many of us, it is deeply disappointing to hear today that whatever reflection he did over the Christmas break, he has not recognised in the Dáil’s first meeting of 2012 that the austerity policy is an absolute disaster economically and socially? Does he not see the significant contradiction in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/video-joe-higgins-warns-austerity-will-further-prolong-crisis/</link>
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		<title>CAHWT Press Statement: Anti Household Tax Hotline Launched 1890 98 98 00</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Taxes (CAHWT) Press statement 11 January 2012 National Hotline 1890 &#8211; 98 98 00 Launched by Anti Household Tax Campaign National hotline launched today by the Campaign Against Household &#038; Water Taxes in response to government threats; *CAHWT plans to organise meetings in every county and major town of Ireland. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/cahwt-press-statement-anti-household-tax-hotline-launched-1890-98-98-00/</link>
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		<title>Press Statement: 15% average increase in Dublin Bus fares is yet another attack on ordinary people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[15% average increase in Dublin Bus fares is yet another attack on ordinary people Paul Murphy MEP slams increase in Dublin Bus fare rates as scandalous Dublin Bus fare rates have been increased on average across the city by 15% since January 01. At a time when many people will be struggling financially in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/press-statement-15-average-increase-in-dublin-bus-fares-is-yet-another-attack-on-ordinary-people/</link>
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		<title>Press Statement: Socialist Party TD Clare Daly calls for support for La Senza workers in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre and Cork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Socialist Party TD Clare Daly calls for support for La Senza workers in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre and Cork Responding to the occupation by workers of the La Senza lingerie outlet in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre following the sudden announcement of the firm&#8217;s closure of all its Irish operations Socialist Party/United Left Alliance TD Clare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/press-statement-socialist/</link>
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		<title>Comment: There is an alternative to the chaos of the market system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger Altman was the Deputy Finance Minister in the government of US President Bill Clinton in 1993/’94. He is now an investment banker and a member of the international big business think tank, The Bilderberg Group . Not a radical socialist then. In an astonishingly frank column in the Financial Times on December 1 last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/comment-there-is-an-alternative-to-the-chaos-of-the-market-system/</link>
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		<title>Press Statement: Figures for company collapses in 2011 further testimony of the failure of austerity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government&#8217;s projected savings of €185 million from cut in employer redundancy rebate indicates FG/Labour expect over 40,000 further private sector job losses Effective state ownership via NAMA of companies like Vita Cortex should result in production being maintained and jobs saved or created Responding to the research produced by Vision-net which looked at the impact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/press-statement-figures-for-company-collapses-in-2011-further-testimony-of-the-failure-of-austerity/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Review of turbulent 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this, the second last day of 2011, we look back on a year marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in this country also. On the wider international stage we had the heroic and repeated mobilisation of millions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/01/comment-review-of-turbulent-2011/</link>
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