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Defend Public Healthcare Stop the health cuts! |
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Despite the unprecedented wealth created by workers during the boom, the health service is a shambles. Despite the lies of the government and the HSE, there is no “black hole” in health funding. Ireland is still way behind most other European countries in terms of health spending. Despite an increase in spending in recent years it has not been enough to repair the damage caused by the cutbacks of the 1980s...  |
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(13/05/08) Lebanon: Pro-Western government militias routed by Hezbollah-led opposition Lebanon has been wracked by a week of armed clashes between supporters of the Western backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition. More than 60 people are reported dead. Hezbollah fighters soon routed the pro-government forces. The days of fierce fighting brought back memories of the horrors of the long 1975-90 civil war, which also involved Syria and Israel. |
(03/05/08) North - Exclusive: Rates bills and water charges may be illegal The Socialist can exclusively reveal that this years annual rates bills and next years water charges bills could in fact be illegal. This dramatic twist comes after investigations by anti-water charges campaigners in the We Won’t Pay Campaign discovered that the Land & Property Service (LPS) cannot collect revenue on behalf of Northern Ireland Water. |
(03/05/08) Sacked Belfast Airport workers: Their battle for justice continues 5pm, Friday 11 April: For the thousands of workers emptying out of their workplaces to swell the Belfast rush hour traffic and head home, it was a Friday much like any other. But for the three sacked airport shop stewards, Gordon McNeill, Madan Gupta and Chris Bowyer, protesting outside Transport House, it was anything but a normal Friday. |
(03/05/08) Robbing Us Blind: Fight Irish gangster capitalism The policies of this government helped create the environment that encouraged the likes of Michael Lynn. They facilitated the manipulation of the property market so developers and banks could on the one hand bump up prices and then, similar to parasitic drug dealers, push huge amounts of credit/debt on to the backs of ordinary people. All for the sake of profit maximisation. |
(03/05/08) North: The Good Friday Agreement - Ten years on The tenth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement was marked by a series of high profile events and much mutual back-slapping. The politicians who negotiated the Agreement were lauded by the media and once again the “solution” to Northern Ireland’s problems was touted as a blueprint for similar intractable problems around the world. |
(01/05/08) May Day Statement: A socialist alternative to capitalist crisis The Socialist Party and the CWI send warm socialist greetings to workers and youth across the world on May Day, International Workers’ Day, 2008. Socialists, trade unionists, anti-war campaigners and many others celebrate May Day 2008 against the background of deepening economic crisis. Belatedly many pro-capitalist economists and commentators have confirmed what the CWI has been arguing, namely that today the profit system potentially faces its worst situation since the 1930s Depression. |
(14/03/08) Belfast: Airport workers suspend hunger strike after Union gives guarantees workers' demands will be met The five day hunger strike by three sacked airport shop stewards, Gordon McNeill, Madan Gupta and Chris Bowyer was suspended at 5.30 on the afternoon of Friday 11 April 2008, after the workers received a letter from the union solicitors guaranteeing that their demands would be met. |
(04/03/08) Ahern Finally Resigns: "The most cunning and devious of them all" After 11 years as Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern announced his resignation, to take effect on May 6 2008. Even in resignation, Ahern lived up to the description given to him by his mentor, the disgraced ex-Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, as, "The most cunning and devious of them all". Ahern had barely announced his resignation before the Fianna Fail machine was spinning furiously. Wave after wave of ministers and TDs were trotted out to declare Ahern was a "man of the people" hounded out of office by a malicious media! See Also: Ahern's real legacy by Joe Higgins. |
(03/03/08) Israel: Land Day demonstration On 30 March Palestianians commemorate Land Day by holding protest rallies and demonstrations all over the world. The demonstrations commemorate the events of 30 March 1976, when six Israeli-Arab citizens were killed by live police bullets fired into a demonstration. As a response to this crackdown of the Israeli army, a general strike and riots of Israeli-Palestinians started, with solidarity actions in the West Bank, against yet another government plan to confiscate Palestinian lands. |
(02/03/08) Twenty Years On: Death on the rock of Gibraltar The slaughter of cancer services in local hospitals around the country has begun! Professor Tom Keane, the interim director of the state’s new national cancer programme, has said that cancer services will be removed from Tralee, Sligo, Castlebar, Wexford, Kilkenny and Drogheda by the end of the year. In the case of Drogheda, the announcement to close the Dochas centre has already been announced. |
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