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.
One hundred and twenty delegates attended the Socialist Party National Conference this weekend in Carlingford, Co Louth. The Conference discussions ranged over the crucial issues affecting working class people on this island North and South and in particular the acute economic crisis which is having a devastating effect on the livelihoods of ordinary people. READ MORE
Today there is a demonstration organised by the 24/7 Frontline Services Alliances against the government’s attacks on the public service. Here Joe Higgins outlines why they should be supported. READ MORE
Here we attach a video of Joe Higgins M.E.P. speaking on a megaphone before Nov 6th 2009 march organised by ICTU. READ MORE
Ulster Bank are trying to impose new inferior contracts and pensions on staff, the want them to pay for a crisis that the senior management of the bank created. Here Joe Higgins outlines why he supports the workers in their struggle against the attacks. READ MORE
Here Joe Higgins responds to the recent OECD report, which called for a comprehensive programme of anti worker and unemployed reforms. Joe argues for an real alternative, not simply ICTUs 10 point plan, but a socialist solution. READ MORE
Working people in both the private and public sectors and their families, together with those depending on social welfare payments and their families should turn out together in massive numbers to the eight regional protest demonstrations called by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions this Friday. READ MORE
Low and middle income workers who are members of trade union would have been horrified as the salaries of many senior trade union leaders were publicised in the past week. READ MORE
