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Unprecedented cuts, North and South, hit women

Joe Higgins addressed the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national conference via a live webcam link, just hours after the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) won two seats in the Irish elections.

Socialist Party wins two parliament seats

Joe Higgins and Clare Daly (Socialist Party, CWI Ireland) elected to the Dail (Irish Parliament) along with up to 3 other candidates from the United Left Alliance. Further results to follow

Joe Higgins questions the EU commission on a possible ’renegotiation’ of EU/IMF austerity programme for Ireland

Socialist Party support increasing amongst working class

Joe Higgins received a very warm welcome to a packed hall in Dún Laoghaire

Socialistparty.net (website of the Socialist Party – CWI Ireland)spoke to Laura Waters, a shop steward and Laura Ashley striker who has just joined the Socialist Party

Elections an opportunity for Socialist Party and United Left Alliance, as a first step to build a mass workers’ party

Labour agrees to rush through draconian Finance Bill and to implement austerity measures

The political establishment is away behind the majority of the population in their decision to implement the diktats of the financial markets.

The challenge of the United Left Alliance (ULA) to the right wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in […]

Joe Higgins’ New Years Message

"Huge class conflicts ahead"

Not only the Fianna Fáil and Green Party, but the two biggest parties in opposition also offer them only a menu of cuts.

Solidarity needed!

Workers’ militant action needed – For a 24-hour general strike!

The government’s four year plan to lower Ireland’s debt/GDP ratio is an open declaration of war on working people, the unemployed and young people.

Start a campaign of industrial action with a one day general strike!

Video coverage of ULA press conference on Irish national TV Broadcaster

Sunday 21 November, the day the Irish government formally applied for a bailout to the EU and IMF, should be marked as the day that the Irish capitalist class were exposed as a rotten, despicable […]

EU and IMF market vultures circle over Ireland

The newly established United Left Alliance, which will be publicly launched on 26/11, involves the Socialist Party, the People Before Profit Alliance, the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group and the Independent Socialist group […]

The panic reaction of the political establishment in Ireland and in the European Institutions, to the idea that a new Referendum might have to be held to amend the Lisbon Treaty, speaks volumes of the […]

Over 30,000 students demonstrated in Dublin, in what was reported to have been the ‘largest student protest in a generation’.

Government running scared at possibility of further EU treaty changes

Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins commented on the outcome of reported talks between President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel against the background of the EU Finance Ministers meetings in Luxembourg: “The capitalist establishments of France and […]

To stop cuts and bailouts Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) must take real action

Will Ireland go bankrupt?

On the same day the Irish government announced a further rescue package of €35 billion for Anglo Irish Bank, finance minister, Brian Lenihan, declared that the projected budget cuts of €3 billion will have to […]

When it comes to putting forward prescriptions for dragging their economic system out of its current mess, the breathtaking arrogance of members of the capitalist establishment never ceases to amaze.

On the European Day of Action, 29 September, the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) distributed a leaflet in Dublin, which we re-publish here.

Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

At a CPSU consultative conference in July, delegate after delegate raised their continued opposition to the Croke Park deal.

Over the course of the last month, the breathtaking hypocrisy of the capitalist elites in Ireland and internationally has been glaringly exposed.

UCD economist, Morgan Kelly, was pilloried by the establishment back in May when he said it was no longer a case of whether Ireland would go bankrupt but when.

The decision of the rating agency, Standard and Poor’s, to downgrade the credit rating of Ireland from AA to AA- was met with hypocritical gnashing of teeth by Irish establishment figures.

Despite being the most unpopular Taoiseach in the history of the state, at the head of the most unpopular government in the history of the state, Brian Cowen has been ranked as the fifth best […]

The Fianna Fáil/ Green Party Government has just about limped to the shelter of the Dáil summer recess, battered and severely frayed at the edges.

An IPSOS/MRBI poll published in June in the Irish Times showed Labour as the most popular party in the Irish Republic with 32% support. This has never happened before in the history of elections or […]

European CWI Summer School Report

According to some Greek protesters Ireland is not like Greece – one banner on a demonstration read, “This is not Ireland, we will fight”. Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, says the same but from a different […]

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP explains the reason why he abstained on the vote regarding Israel, Palestine and the Gaza flotilla. (17-06-10)

Letter of solidarity

Austerity programmes across EU provoke mass struggles and general strikes

Determined struggle by public sector workers can defeat deal and weak government

Irish Socialist Party MEP calls for solidarity demonstrations with activists and Gaza

Obituary