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Age of retirement: Joe Higgins MEP challenges the global attack on pension rights

June 15, 2010 Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), 2 June Video

At the Committee on Employment, Joe Higgins MEP challenges the neo-liberal assault on pension rights as well as the attempts by right-wing governments to increase the retirement age.

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