Joe Higgins TD

Here Joe Higgins outlines the emergency action that must be taken to fight the crisis. Joe calls for mass action to fight the job cuts and defend social welfare. Joe demands the nationalisation of big companies like SR Technics that threaten job losses – – – – – – – – – – – – [...]

There is fear and loathing in the vegetable patch. The greens are nervous and restive. Inclement environmental conditions have sapped their once bright emerald hue leaving them looking pale and sickly. But worse is to come. Rumours abound of an army of ravenous caterpillars waiting to crawl all over them and expected to do so [...]

Here, in the first of a series of videos on what Joe Higgins stands for, Joe outlines some of the basic things that should be done to end the unemployment crisis.  He argues we must fight every  wage cut and job loss, which will only make the recession worse. Joe argues workers, in places like [...]

THE REASON I am standing in the Euro Elections in Dublin is to give the people of the capital city the possibility of a clear socialist alternative to all the establishment political parties. There is no doubt that the current economic catastrophe will be foremost in the minds of people as they vote on 5 [...]

As venture capitalists seal their plan to smash 1,150 jobs at SR Technics by selling off the Landing Gear and Auxiliary Power Unit, the Irish Government and trade union leadership are in a state of pathetic paralysis. They simply stand by and allow the dictatorship of the market to lay waste to an invaluable industry [...]

‘Ba cheart go mbeadh an cothromaíocht lárnach in na híarracttaí chun cúrsaí eacnamaíochta a hathnúachan,’ adúirt an tAire Airgeadais Brian Ó Loinneacháin agus é ag cur an Bhuiséad os cóir na Dála Dé Máirt seo caite. Bréag ollmhór polaitíochta a bhí ins an méid sin, mar chuir sé i láthair an Buiséad ba mhí cothromaí [...]

Fianna Fail has been found out – clearly and comprehensively – and it is hurting badly as a result. Never before in the 83 years since it was formed has the party stood so bereft of camouflage to cloak its real nature. Fianna Fail lived a lie for so much of its history that it [...]