Ireland
New Irish Marxist Website: Fightback Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
connolly1.jpgWe are delighted to announce that a new website operated by the International Marxist Tendency in Ireland has now been established. The new site will carries a Marxist analysis of events within the whole of the island of Ireland, reports of workers struggles and perspectives for the development of the class struggle across the 32 counties.
 
An Bord Snip Nua – Cowen’s Procrustean Bed Print E-mail
By Fightback (Ireland)   
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
an_bord.jpgIreland: What with stalled talks over the national wage agreement and the Pension Levy, an emergency budget worthy of Dracula and a huge hole in the government’s finances also, there’s no surprise that the government’s “expendenditure review body” has been christened as An Bord Snip.
 
Belfast: No to the racist attacks Print E-mail
By Fightback (Ireland)   
Saturday, 27 June 2009
belfast_racist_attacks.jpgWe share the revulsion of the hundreds of Belfast workers who demonstrated on the Lisburn Road against these racist attacks in Belgravia Avenue and Wellesley Avenue over the last week. We applaud the efforts of those workers who gathered together and offered their moral and practical support to the Roma people who were forced from their homes by the fascist thugs using the name of Combat 18 – the British fascist terror group.
 
Ireland: Euro election disaster looms for Cowen Print E-mail
By Séamus Loughlin   
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
cowen.jpgIf you hadn’t noticed, there is an election or rather a number of elections this week, what with the Euro Elections and the Council ones. Every lamp post, telegraph pole or slow moving animal has been festooned with posters for weeks. All of the hopefuls smile at you as you walk past, each photo carefully doctored so you can’t see the vampire fangs.
 
Commemoration of the Limerick Soviet Print E-mail
By Austin Harney   
Thursday, 28 May 2009
limerick.jpgThe Limerick Soviet was established on 6th April 1919, a few months after the Dail (the newly elected Irish national assembly) proclaimed independence from Britain in January. In fact Ireland was occupied by British soldiers. In an incident, nationalist Robert Byrne was shot dead by occupying troops. His death was heavily mourned throughout the city as 20,000 people attended his funeral in protest. The British Government reacted angrily by imposing martial law on the city with the use of troops and tanks. The townsfolk responded by setting up the Limerick Soviet.

 
Ireland: class struggle on the rise as the slump deepens Print E-mail
By Seamus Loughlin   
Friday, 08 May 2009
dublinfeb.jpgThe Irish economy is predicted to crash this year. It’s set to contract by 9.2%. To put this into perspective, the growth rates during the years of the Celtic Tiger were about 6%. So these figures are the equivalent of turning the clock back economically by almost two years. The Economic and Social Research Unit are predicting unemployment will spiral to 17% next year. 300,000 jobs will disappear and living standards will fall to 15% lower than in 2007.
 
The Limerick Soviet of 1919 Print E-mail
By Ewan Gibbs   
Wednesday, 06 May 2009
limerick.jpgRecent weeks have seen Ireland bear witness to two factory occupations that subsequently inspired similar actions across Britain. These events are significant developments in class struggle in that they pose the question of whether power resides with the boss or the workers. It is fitting that these events should coincide with the ninetieth anniversary of the Limerick Soviet. The events that took place in the small Munster town during April 1919 have all too predictably been written out of the official history of Ireland. They have also been largely forgotten in the labour movement due to the role of a conservative bureaucratic leadership that has sought to bury the history of the Irish working class’ most potent challenge to capitalist rule. 
 
Easter Rising remembered Print E-mail
By Ewan Gibbs   
Thursday, 09 April 2009
james.jpgAs Easter approaches, Ireland stands once again in crisis. It is unlikely this year that we will be treated to the sight of a farcical show of strength from the Irish military or the twenty six county state government attempting to cash in on the legacy of the famous rebellion against British rule. Despite being regarded as a central point in Irish history and an event that is widely recognised as pivotal to the traditions of republicanism little of the events of 1916 are retained in their popular representation as they have been surrounded by a systematic campaign of distortion almost since they took place.
 
Fianna Fáil Budget: The bosses slash while the economy burns Print E-mail
By Seamus Loughlin   
Wednesday, 08 April 2009
dublin2.jpgFinance Minister Brian Lenihan and the Fianna Fáil led coalition have set out their stall. This was a bosses’ budget that takes €837 out of the economy for every man, woman and child in Ireland. Worse still, if you happen to be an unemployed school leaver under the age of 20 your dole is being cut in half. RTÉ’s headline states that the “most severe budget in decades is revealed”.
 
Ireland: Trade union bosses talk - workers ready to fight on Print E-mail
By Seamus Loughlin   
Monday, 30 March 2009
sp.jpgIf anyone had suggested a few years ago, that Ireland would be in a deep recession, that Waterford Crystal would be occupied, that Labour would be ahead of Fianna Fáil in the polls and that we would be more or less on the brink of a one day general strike,  they would have been told to go and put some water in the glass to help wash down the whiskey. The whole place was booming, houses popping up everywhere, more motorways than spaghetti junction and thousands of people returning home from abroad to join the boom.
 
Ireland: “The last roll of the dice for Government, Ibec and unions” Print E-mail
By Séamus Loughlin   
Friday, 27 March 2009
This is how the Irish Times summed up the forthcoming negotiations between ICTU (The Irish Confederation of Trade Unions), the Government and Ibec (the employers). The talks follow an invitation from the Taoiseach Brian Cowen to the ICTU leaders, who have deferred the strike action planned for Monday 30th pending the outcome of the negotiating. The decision to call off the action reflects the fact that the trade union leaders have been very keen to pull off a deal, and are confident that they have a big mandate from the members.
 
Waterford occupation ends: a bitter pill to swallow Print E-mail
By Seamus Loughlin   
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
water1.jpgAfter seven weeks of occupation UNITE, the union representing the Waterford Crystal workers, has done a deal with KPS, the American company that has bought out part of the company’s assets. The decision is a bitter blow to the workers, many of whom feel that the company was holding a gun to their heads -  the issue being the threat to withdraw €10 million of pension payments.
 
Northern Ireland: No way out except Socialism Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Thursday, 19 March 2009
sp.jpgEditorial statement of Socialist Appeal
Sectarianism only serves to divide the working class. When in reality the conditions that Catholic and Protestant workers face mean that they have far more in common with each other than they could ever have with the bosses.

 
Ireland: Labour Youth, the Connolly Youth Movement, the Greens and the March 30th Strikes Print E-mail
By Séamus Loughlin   
Friday, 13 March 2009
dublin1.jpgAs we know there are indeed 40 shades of green in Ireland, but as the comrades of Labour Youth and the Connolly Youth Movement have explained in their open letter to the Green Party there is another one. The shade of green, that is, which justifies the Green Party’s ongoing support for the Fianna Fáil - which allows the latter to continue to hold a majority in the Dáil. 
 
Ireland: As the economic crisis worsens the workers mobilise Print E-mail
By P. Bowman and Seamus Loughlin   
Thursday, 12 March 2009
james.jpgOn February 21 some 200,000 workers and their families took to the streets in Dublin, to demonstrate their opposition to the government's decision to impose a  pension levy (€ 2 billion) on 300,000 Public sector workers. The huge success of the march however, resulted from various factors such as the deepening economic crisis, rising unemployment, the ditching of the social contract by the employers and the government and savage government budget cuts. But what most concerns the majority of workers is that the situation is likely to worsen.
 
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