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Socialist
Party Publication (04/08/05): This
new publication is both an analysis of the lessons of the bin tax
battle so far and the role of socialists in the wider working class
struggle, and an anwser to the criticisms of the Socialist Party made
by some in the Anti Bin Tax Campaign. It is approximately 30,000 words.
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The
Socialist Article (01/08/05): Last
month the High Court gave the go-ahead for Limerick City Council to
implement its new scaled-down waiver scheme. |
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The
Socialist Article (01/05/05): The
Dublin City Anti-bin Tax Campaign won a circuit court case taken by
James Hegarty against the demand by Dublin City Council that he pay
bin tax arrears for the years 2001 and 2002. |
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The
Socialist Article (01/03/05): The
bin charges are burning a hole in the wage packets of working class
people. At the heart of the issue is this country's rip-off taxation
system and the attempts of the government to privatise these public
services so their rich business friends can make super profits.
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The
Socialist Article (12/02/05): Dublin
City Council has created a mess and a health hazard through its policy
of non-collection of refuse. Many inner city areas have been affected
by non-collection and communities have been resisting the Council's
attack in East Wall and the Liberties. |
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The
Socialist Article (17/01/05): Nobody
is paying less everybody is paying more! Last year Dublin City Council
had a flat charge of €195. This year the same service will cost
€340 a year! If you reduce and recycle and put your bin out half
as much as previously, it will cost you €210, still €15
more than last year. These increases are mirrored throughout the country.
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The
Socialist Article (17/01/05): Council
have taken the axe to the city's bin charge waiver system. Starting
17 January, the Council will operate a double bin charge - a €255
annual fixed charge and €5 a week for tags without which bins
will not be emptied. |
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The
Socialist Article (17/01/05): At
the Dublin Circuit Court on 8 December, Dublin City Council was found
to be in contravention of its own waste management plan. The
Judge ruled that the City Council had not included in the bin charges
for 2001 and 2002 any financial incentives for householders who were
reducing and recycling their waste.
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The
Socialist Article (01/10/04): Two-hundred
anti-bin tax campaigners pro-tested outside the meeting of Dublin
City Council on 1 November demanding that the Council, scrap the bin
tax in this years budget. |
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The
Socialist Article (01/10/04): Having
foisted the bin charge on residents through intimidation, jailings
and court threats over the past year, management now feels confident
to ratchet up the weekly charge from €5 to €6 - an increase
of 20%. |
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Socialist
Voice Article (01/09/04): In
Dublin City the make up of the council has changed, with Labour, Sinn
Fein and three independents who are opposed to the bin tax, technically
holding a majority. It is important that the campaign fully utilises
this change and the council position of anti-bin tax campaigner Joan
Collins to the maximum. |
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Socialist
Voice Article (11/04/04): A
number of leading activists from anti-bin tax campaigns will be standing
in the local elections on 11 June, aiming to provide an alternative
to the right-wing parties who have imposed this hated tax on the communities.
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Socialist
View Article (10/04/04): Kevin
McLoughlin looks back at the events since Autumn 2003 in the battle
between working class communities and the Government. |
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Socialist
Party Press Release (25/03/04): We
will fight these outrageous demands by Fingal County Council. Court
costs of this magnitude are used to intimidate working class people
from their campaign for taxation justice. |
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Fingal
Anti-Bin Tax Campaign Press Release (23/03/04): Pretending
that this will slash waste collection costs to the householder, the
Minister hopes to remove the bin tax as an issue in the Local Elections.
He will not succeed. |
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Socialist
Voice Article (Mar 04): Over
a month since the introduction of the tag system by South Dublin County
Council, the Anti bin tax campaign continues to cause disruption to
the bin service with weekly protests in many communities.
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Socialist
Voice Article: Joe
Higgins: "When I got out of jail last November, having served
a month for the anti-bin tax protests, I spoke widely about the huge
hypocrisy that lay at the heart of the Government's waste management
strategy."
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Press
Release: That
paper files from a Government Department should be found in a landfill
raises not only a question of the treatment of confidential documents
but demands an explanation as to why this paper wasn't recycled instead.
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Socialist
Voice Article: A
series of important articles of new and analysis from the February
2004 edition of Socialist Voice, the newspaper of the Socialist Party.
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Environmental
Dail Debate: Joe
Higgins challenged Minister for Environment, Martin Cullen on the
waste of money involved in fradulent "Race Against Waste"
advertisements and the government's failure on recycling.
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Dublin
Campaign Against the Bin Tax Press Release: A
High Court Judgement, which found against the Dublin Campaign Against
the Bin Tax on a point of law today, does not in any way cut across
the continuation of the Anti Bin Tax Campaign.
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Socialist
Voice Article: WHILE
THE tag system is difficult to fight against, there are a number of
important things in our favour and if we get organised in January
we could force them to retreat.
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Socialist
Party Press Release: THE
INCREASE in the bin tax by 23% in Dublin City exposes the sham posturing
engaged in by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Green Party Councilllors.
When the decisive moment came, their reservations gave way to cowardice
and opportunism.
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Bin Tax Prisoner Elected in UCD SOCIALIST
PARTY member and jailed anti bin tax protester, David Murphy, was
elected on to UCD’s Academic Council on Wednesday. 77% of votes
and 2 of the 3 seats in the constituency went to anti bin tax candidates.
David was sent to Mountjoy prison for 3 weeks and fined €1,500
for participating in anti bin tax protests in his own community.
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