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United Left Alliance Budget Statement
United Left Alliance
Budget Statement December 2011
PDF edition here: http://www.peoplebeforeprofit.ie/files/ULA%20Budget%20Statement%20December%202011.pdf
Austerity Is Not Working: Tax The Rich, Invest In Jobs
Next weeks budget will see further drastic cuts in the living standards of workers, the unemployed and the poor. Since the onset of the crisis in 2008 government policy has focused on bailing out banks and speculators and making the working class pick up the bill. Hardly a cent has been taken from those who have the real wealth in society. The effect of this policy has been lengthening dole queues and impoverishment with rising inequality in a society that was already deeply unequal. The wealth of the super-rich has increased throughout the crises. Read the rest of this entry »
ULA must build campaigning party: Eddie Conlon
Article by Eddie Conlon, non-party steering committee member of ULA and PBPA, in Resistance (published by Irish Socialist Network), No 14, Autumn 2011.
ULA Must Build Campaigning Party
The United Left Alliance offers real potential for building a radical force on the left which has significant social weight and can mobilise wide layers in struggles against austerity and for socialism. The election of five TDs was a real breakthrough. As was the organisation of the national forum and the coming together of the left to organise a significant gathering of trade union activists into the Trade Union Activist Forum. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember in December “When Labour Wrestles With Its Conscience, Labour Always Wins”
An interesting article from the Irish Examiner : http://feeds.examiner.ie/~r/ietopstories/~3/Zg1NinWii-8/
The author of that cruel jibe was ex Fianna Fail taoiseach Sean Lemass – history repeats itself first as tragedy..
Greek Auditing Commission of the Public Debt – No to the 50% haircut, no to the new Occupation. Cessation of payments and debt audit!
Greek Auditing Commission of the Public Debt
No to the 50% haircut, no to the new Occupation. Cessation of payments and debt audi
Éric Toussaint has circulated this useful summary of the crisis in Greece and the Eurozone.
In the early hours of the 27th October, the Eurozone leaders reached a decision marking the tightening of the public debt¢s grip over the Greek people. The proposed haircut of the public debt held by the private sector will not resolve Greece¢s debt problem, whilst instead it brings new burdens. The reasons are plenty: Read the rest of this entry »
David McWilliams: All bets are off, so why pay for costly Anglo gamble? – David McWilliams, Columnists – Independent.ie
A Clear Case for not paying the Anglo Irish Bank Profiteers
The Billion Dollar Anglo Irish Bond – Cedar Lounge Revolution – and the Greece Referendum
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-billion-dollar-anglo-bond/
and a cartoon which says it all :
More, from the NAMA Winelake :
Dave Allen has the last word :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5y_gE1Rb1Y
Tomás Ó Flatharta 