Ireland: IRSP calls for nationalisation of Waterford Crystal We publish the Editorial of the latest edition of The Plough, which reports on the occupation of Waterford Crystal.
Warning from Ireland: "Public service pay cuts will be considered" The Irish government is looking for €2bn worth of cuts and that means pay cuts for public sector workers.
Ireland: Grim reading. Labour must be prepared to fight. In Ireland unemployment is rising at the fastest rate since the records began in 1967. It's now standing at 295,000, having grown by 120,987 in the last year.
Ireland: Waterford Crystal and the sting in the tail from the Celtic Tiger Reports that Waterford Crystal and the Wedgwood China Company were to go into administration will add yet more gloom to the outlook for the Irish economy. [Since this article was written the factory has been occupied]
Ireland: government nationalises Anglo Irish Bank while the country faces the second worst recession in the EU The Irish economy is facing a serious downturn, with bank after bank facing crisis and unemployment shooting up. The government insists on bailing out the banks with public money desperately trying to stave off a recession. But they cannot escape the inescapable.
Dublin nationalises the risks but not the assets! We reproduce willingly this article that first appeared on the éirígí website. Faced with the current financial meltdown the author poses the choice bluntly: “Every person in Ireland has a choice to make. Do they support a ‘free’ market or do they support a free people? And if they choose a free people they need to make one more choice – to become politically active and join the struggle for a free, socialist Ireland.”
Ireland: housing crash, credit crunch, poses need to nationalise banks Ireland has been hit hard by the credit crunch. The country has gone from one of the highest rates of growth to bust. The government is being forced to intervene with guarantees, but as could be expected they are aimed at sustaining the rich not the ordinary working people.
Ireland: the vacuum! – latest editorial of The Plough We publish the recent editorial of The Plough, which stresses the need to adopt the Marxist method and approach within the Irish republican movement, to raise the class issues at the same time as struggling for a solution to the national question, one being inextricably linked to the other.
Recession in Ireland An interesting comment, that appeared in the recent edition of The Plough, on the present state of the Irish economy, north and south of the border.
Irish government loses vote in EU referendum In spite of all the main parties, big business, the media and even most of the trade union leaders campaigning for a "yes" vote in yesterday's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, the "No" won the day. This was a slap in the face for the Irish government and the European Union bosses.
Ireland: It’s the Economy! Ireland, after a long period of economic boom, is now feeling the effects of the worldwide slowdown. Some have made big money, but at the other end of the social spectrum there are many who have lost out. Now is the time to raise the banner of genuine socialism within the Republican movement and the working class as a whole.
Ireland: ten years on from the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement In looking back at the Good Friday Agreement, Gerry Ruddy points out that it has served to stabilise British rule in the North as Sinn Fein has been absorbed into the establishment. In this situation he stresses the need for republican socialists to focus on working class and socialist policies.
Ireland: Easter 1916 - Easter 2008 After the Easter 1916 uprising the actual class conditions that motivated the likes of James Connolly and the trade unionists who set up the Irish Citizen's Army to battle capitalism were written out of history. Radical ideas were demonised and Connolly's Marxism was airbrushed from history.
IRSP Easter Commemoration 2008 Speech For the interest of our readers we publish a speech delivered by Paul Little (of the IRSP Ard Comhairle) on Sunday, 23rd March, at the Republican Socialist Plot, Milltown Cemetery, Belfast. He explains that the aim of the IRSP is “to oust imperialism, oust capitalism in all its guises and end the occupation and exploitation of the Irish working class.”
Ireland: IRSP members victimised in the South In February five members of the IRSP were brought before a court in Dublin, a clear case of state harassment. It is an attempt to silence any left criticism within the Republican movement. We publish here three articles explaining what is behind all this and we call on all our supporters to support these comrades.
