Press Release: Kazakhstan – Human rights defender “disappeared” for 10 days
Kazakhstan Police "Disappear" human rights defender, Vadim Kuramshin, for 10 days to prevent him meeting Joe Higgins MEP
State support for Anglo is an unbearable burden on working people
The consequences of the government not taking that approach with Anglo alone has cost the Irish taxpayer €25 billion to date, with the possibilities of further billions to come...
Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table…
Business circles are agog at "the most significant development in philanthropy" for decades. Questions should be asked on the nature of the system that puts such enormous resources in a few private hands.
Video from the Dublin Demonstration as part of EU-wide week of protest
On June 26th five hundred people took to the streets of Dublin as part of a European-Wide week of Protest and Solidarity against the bank bail-outs, EU/IMF cutbacks and the dictatorship of the Markets. Here we post a video of the protest.
Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, this morning, announced that the government wanted to take a billion euro a year from householders in water charges. This could mean an average of €900 a year for each household. This would simply be an intolerable burden on working people, already hit by levies and wage cuts. READ MORE
In this video Joe condemns the whipping up of religious divisions by capitalism by in Malaysia as well as condemning religious attacks in Egypt and in Europe. READ MORE
The air traffic controllers are right to stand by their suspended colleagues, and in fact the entire trade union movement needs to respond to Minister Dempseys threat to the right to strike. READ MORE
Hot on the heels of the ‘Great Frame-up’ of 2009, whereby public sector workers were hammered, and forced to pay, for the crimes of the developers/bankers, the propaganda campaign to facilitate the next big stitch up is already well underway. Ordinary householders around the country are being blamed for the water crisis currently being experienced in many local authority areas. READ MORE
Responding to the various forms of work to rule that members of the Civil and Public Service Union (CPSU) which began yesterday and which will be joined by other unions Joe Higgins MEP of the Socialist Party commented: READ MORE
Although the crisis surrounding the ‘sidestepped’ Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and wife Iris has appeared to temporarily subside, the fact that the whole structure of power sharing and the power-sharing Executive might be in danger of collapse over the controversy, graphically illustrates the artificial nature of that entity. READ MORE
I this video, Joe questions Karel de Gucht, the European Union’s Commissioner-Designate for International Trade on the European Union’s international trade policies. Joe raises important questions in relation to the detrimental effect that neo-liberal EU trade policies have in the developing world in order to defend the economic interests of European Capitalism. READ MORE
