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Vote No to Austerity Europe – No to the Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance – Platform of the Campaign Against the Austerity Treaty
Vote No to Austerity Europe – No to the Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance –
Platform of the Campaign Against the Austerity Treaty
The proposed new Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union– in reality an Austerity Treaty – is an undemocratic attempt to institutionalize austerity across Europe. Its ‘Fiscal Compact’ would deny the right of Member State governments to run a ‘structural’ budget deficit of more than 0.5%. This would remove the democratic right of national parliaments to decide national budgets, with that power shifting to the unelected European Commission and European Court of Justice. This would be a fundamental transfer of power away from elected governments. We call for a ‘No’ vote in the referendum. Read the rest of this entry »
Vote No to EU Austerity Treaty – Bailout People Not Banks – Public Meeting, Liberty Hall, Monday March 5, 7.30pm
First Poster of the 2012 EU Austerity Referendum Campaign
- Bailout People Not Banks
Link to PDF of Poster is Here :
More Information on the Danish Red-Green MEP Soren Sondergaard Here :
Soren Sondergaard on Denmark and the Euro
Danish People’s Movement Welcomes Foreign Workers
Public Action was needed to force the government to hold a referendum.
We have extra time after the Lisbon Treaty 1-1 draw – let’s score in extra time and win this European battle on Irish Soil – start the fight back against the parasite banks in Ireland, spread the spirit of rebellion beyond our shores to the rest of Europe.
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United Left Alliance calls for a NO vote in ‘Austerity Referendum’
The five United Left Alliance TDs (Richard Boyd Barrett, Joan Collins, Clare Daly, Joe Higgins and Seamus Healy) today called for a NO vote in the referendum on the Fiscal Treaty – the austerity treaty. Read the rest of this entry »
Over 100,000 rally in Lisbon against austerity – Irish Media Please Copy
Left-wing sources brought this event to our attention – no comment so far on any mainline Irish Media that we have seen.
While Reuters report that “Over 100,000” people packed into the city’s main square, another report says 350,000 were present.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120211/wl_nm/us_portugal_protest
Here is a photo :
Lisbon Rejects Austerity - Irish Media Please Copy
Trinity
The Left Unity Blogging Network has this post today:
comment on wall from H. Silke : “Not one but two different component parts of the ULA organised public meetings clashing with the ULA’s Dublin city branch meeting (at the same time and place). Hardly driving confidence in joined up thinking never mind revolution? :-/”
and asks, “Can anyone shed any light on the matter?”
Well yes, and it all sheds light on the Babel that is the ULA and the need concentrate on the ULA as an organisation. Last night the Dublin Central Branch held its (well attended) monthly meeting in the Teachers Club, Parnell Square, Dublin. I was astonished to see posters in town for a Socialist Party public meeting at the same time in the Teachers Club on the Fiscal Treaty. Wait, we have a troika of our own. Socialst Democracy, an informal component of the ULA, had a public meeting at the same time in the Teachers Club, with Conor McCabe speaking on the economy. This seems to have been reasonably well-attended too.
Now all three meetings were very worthy of attention and attendance. And no doubt it was all the kind of mix up that we all do on occasion, and was no disrespect to the Dublin Central ULA trying to gather all ULA members and sympathisers in the area for a Branch meeting. But it was also a symptom of disengagement by the components from the ULA itself, of everybody doing their own thing and of little reference into the organisation and schedules of the ULA. And, all three meetings could have been held under the banner of the ULA, and why not. And all three may even have been combined in some way, to cut down on all the subdivision of action and multiplication of energy that is a feature of the left – and the broad social response to austerity too – at the moment.
Des Derwin
ULA to Force Dáil Vote on Burning Anglo Bondholders
Joan Collins TD - Dáil Should Burn Bondholders
From the Journal.ie :
http://www.thejournal.ie/ula-to-force-dail-vote-on-burning-anglo-bondholders-335933-Jan2012/
THE UNITED LEFT ALLIANCE is to force a Dáil vote tomorrow evening on whether the State should repay the unsecured bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank.
A motion has been tabled by the five-member group, backed by the other 11 members of the independent technical group, which would force the government not to repay obligations worth up to €50 billion.
The motion includes an instruction not to repay the €1.25 billion unsecured bond issued by Anglo which matures tomorrow, or any further payments to bondholders in Anglo, now the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. Read the rest of this entry »
Anglo Bond Carnival: Dublin Council of Trade Unions urges unions and union members to support
The Dublin Council of Trade Unions has circulated the following letter to its delegates and affiliated trade unions:
19th January, 2012.
To each DCTU delegate, General Secretary or Senior Official
Dear Colleague,
A portion of the unsecured debt amounting to €1.25 billion will be handed over to ANGLO IRISH/IBRC bank on Wednesday 25th January 2012. How much budget pain could this sum solve?
This event should not pass withuout a protest.
A group called Occupy Anglo/IBRC, a loose offshoot of Occupy Dame Street are organising such a protest.
IT WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY 23rd JANUARY FROM 7 am to 5pm AT ANGLO IRISH BANK, ST. STEPHEN’S GREEN AND WILL CONTINUE ON 24th AND 25th JANUARY.
This will be a peaceful protest outside the bank and will include talks, teach-ins and music.
We urge all members to participate at some point during these three days.
Yours sincerely,
Sam Nolan
Correspondence Secretary
Letter ends
[Facebook page of Carnival organiser: http://www.facebook.com/events/280892235299369/]
Tomás Ó Flatharta 