Comment & Other

Written by Paul Murphy MEP
Friday, 20 January 2012 10:00
A new international treaty is currently being negotiated by the leaders of the EU. This treaty, currently called the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, is a treaty to effectively institutionalise austerity across the European Union.

Written by Joe Higgins TD
Tuesday, 03 January 2012 17:04
Here Joe Higgins TD looks back on 2011 - a year marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in this country also.

Written by Kevin McLoughlin
Tuesday, 17 January 2012 09:00
“An organised group of people working for a cause”. That is a dictionary definition of the word “party”. James Connolly went further when he described the socialist movement as the “great anti theft movement of the 20th century”.

Written by Paul Murphy MEP
Thursday, 08 December 2011 09:00
Paul Murphy MEP for the Socialist Party/United Left Alliance has today demanded that any proposed changes to the Lisbon Treaty are put to a referendum in Ireland. This follows talks between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarcozy yesterday, and ahead of their meeting with European Council president Herman Van Rompuy.