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08/10/2011: How can we take the struggle forward?
08/10/2011: "Better to break the law than break the poor"
07/10/2011: Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New
York and other US cities
07/10/2011: Eurozone threatened by sovereign debt and banking crisis and compounded
by near-zero growth
06/10/2011: The working class needs a new party
06/10/2011: Vote against government austerity
05/10/2011: End attacks on lives and freedoms of worker activists!
05/10/2011: Struggle continues despite police repression
05/10/2011: Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures",
voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast
04/10/2011: 24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now - Socialist Party placard,
photo Paul Mattsson
04/10/2011: “People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October
03/10/2011: Solidarity urgently needed
03/10/2011: End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!
03/10/2011: Famine - another weapon of mass destruction
01/10/2011: UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines!
01/10/2011: The Moscow News reports on heroic workers struggle
01/10/2011: Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be
immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and
democratic control
30/09/2011: “I, Clare Daly, member of the Irish Parliament strongly condemn threats
by the Kazakhstan authorities…” Socialist Party TDs add voices to
international outcry
30/09/2011: Indigenous movement and general strike force five ministers resignations
30/09/2011: Wall street occupation continues and spreads
29/09/2011: London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil
workers
29/09/2011: Attacks first tested on Aboriginal population now implemented on all
28/09/2011: Protesters lobby Kazakh embassy in Germany
28/09/2011: Stock market trader exposes real views of speculators & parasites
28/09/2011: Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence
28/09/2011: The Execution of Troy Davis
27/09/2011: New wave of strikes and student protests - But how can the cuts tsunami
be halted?
27/09/2011: Socialist Action’s (CWI Hong Kong) first election campaign
26/09/2011: Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev to address OSCE Human Rights
Conference
24/09/2011: Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens
24/09/2011: Mass and unified resistance needs to be organised
23/09/2011: Eight months after the overthrow of Mubarak, workers and youth still
face poverty, unemployment, corruption and repression
23/09/2011: Left-wing legislator and six others arrested and charged with
‘disorderly conduct’ after by-election protest
23/09/2011: Why socialists must campaign for a new mass workers party
22/09/2011: Revolution in grave danger of being seriously derailed
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|  06/10/2011, Vote against government austerity
By Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) reporters
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|  07/09/2011, Mass non-payment campaign can defeat new tax
Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) reporters
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|  14/07/2011, After the ULA Forum: Which way forward?
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  13/06/2011, "The ULA, the individual members and the groups involved, must prepare
for an inevitable explosion of anger here which, when it comes, will be
every bit as significant as the movements sweeping southern Europe."
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  08/06/2011, The United Left Alliance has the potential to be at the heart of the
active resistance to the fresh round of attacks coming from the
government in the months ahead.
Michael O’Brien, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) Representative on the ULA Steering Group
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|  19/05/2011, Discussion on the measures necessary to prepare for the attacks that lie
ahead
Michael O’Brien, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  19/05/2011, "With almost half a million (14%) of our workforce jobless, which would
be more socially useful, another 3,000 jobs or entertaining high-profile
visitors?"
Joe Higgins, TD (member of the
Irish Parliament), Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  18/05/2011, Record low turnout - Class issues dominate on doorsteps
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI, Northern Ireland)
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|  06/05/2011, Workers’ movement must resist austerity
Mick Barry, councillor of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Cork
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|  29/04/2011, New government: "Same circus, just different clowns!"
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  05/04/2011, The Commission wants to introduce legislation that would ensure that
ordinary people will be forced to bailout the banks and speculators.
Paul Murphy, Member of the European Parliament, Socialist Party (CWI
Ireland)
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|  25/03/2011, Ordinary people are savaged
Video of Joe Higgins, member of the Irish Parliament
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|  25/03/2011, Long-time Socialist Party activist and organiser, Paul Murphy (27), will
be replacing Joe Higgins as the
Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, following Joe’s succesful election to
the Dail along with Clare Daly.
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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Further articles on 'Ireland Republic':- 19/03/2011: Ireland - United Left Alliance: Historic breakthrough
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 16/03/2011: Ireland: New government promises more cuts
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 15/03/2011: Northern Ireland: Major gains for Broad Left in public sector union
elections
Padraig Mulholland, NIPSA Public Officers’ Executive and Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) member, Belfast - 09/03/2011: Ireland: Clare Daly and Joe Higgins - first day in the new Dail
Joe Higgins and Clare Daly, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 08/03/2011: Ireland: Laura Ashley struggle an inspiration
Laura Ashley shop steward and striker, Laura Waters, writes about her
experiences - 03/03/2011: Ireland: "Launching a principled left alternative"
Joe Higgins, TD (member of the
Irish Parliament), Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 01/03/2011: Ireland: Elections see collapse of Fianna Fail, the traditional
establishment party
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin - 26/02/2011: Ireland: Election success for Socialist Party and ULA
CWI reporters, Dublin - 23/02/2011: Ireland: Socialist Party’s broadcast for general election
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 19/02/2011: Ireland: "More cuts will wreck our society"
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 17/02/2011: Ireland: Hopes and fears in run-up to general election
Socialist Party reporters, Ireland - 11/02/2011: Ireland: "To build a real representation of workers and unemployed"
Joe Higgins on launch of ULA in Dún Laoghaire - 11/02/2011: Ireland: Laura Ashley striker speaks out
CWI reporters, Ireland - 03/02/2011: Ireland: Final “bang” of an imploding government
CWI reporter, Dublin - 25/01/2011: Ireland: Opposition conspiring with governing Fianna Fail
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
Reporter - 20/01/2011: Ireland: EU/IMF intervention enslaves working people
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 18/01/2011: Ireland: Elite’s chorus of approval for IMF is out of tune with ordinary
people
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 14/01/2011: Ireland: General election Left challenge strengthens
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
Reporter - 04/01/2011: Ireland: "Let’s make 2011 the breakthrough year for the genuine left"
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
2010: - 30/12/2010: James Conolly: Labour in Irish History revisited
Niall Mulholland (from Socialism Today) - 19/12/2010: Ireland / EU: Opposition to eurozone crisis mechanism!
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 16/12/2010: Ireland: Austerity attacks, the working class and prospects for the left
Interview with Kevin McLoughlin, National Organiser of the Socialist
Party and co co-ordinator of the United Left Alliance - 11/12/2010: Ireland: Opposition to vicious austerity package
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 10/12/2010: Ireland: The connivance of the Labour Party and Fine Gael
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 10/12/2010: Joe Higgins: ’Irish people owe nothing to banks & billionaires’
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 09/12/2010: Ireland: School student victimised for protesting cuts and fees
Eddie McCabe, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 03/12/2010: Europe: Joe Higgins challenges ECB President
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) speaking in the European Parliament - 01/12/2010: Ireland: Huge Dublin demonstration protests IMF/EU-backed austerity cuts
Stephen Rigney, Socialist Party
(CWI Ireland), Dublin - 01/12/2010: Ireland: Four year plan is an open declaration of war on working people
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 29/11/2010: Ireland: Joe Higgins speaks to Dublin’s anti-austerity demonstration
Joe Higgins addressing United Left Alliance demonstration - 28/11/2010: Ireland: Over 100,000 protest against austerity cuts
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 26/11/2010: Ireland: Launch of United Left Alliance
Socialistworld.net - 25/11/2010: Ireland: Opposition to EU / IMF cuts
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 24/11/2010: Ireland: Oppose the IMF/EU backed attacks
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 18/11/2010: Ireland: Hostages to the Bond Holders!
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP - 13/11/2010: Ireland: United Left Alliance to challenge at general election
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 11/11/2010: Ireland and the EU: Fear and loathing in Brussels and Dublin…
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 09/11/2010: Ireland: No to tuition fees - no to police brutality
Eddie McCabe, Socialist Party
(CWI Ireland) - 02/11/2010: Ireland: Any changes to Lisbon Treaty must be put to referendum!
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI
in Ireland) MEP - 24/10/2010: Ireland: Workers should follow example of French workers’ uncompromising
struggle
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
Reporter - 23/10/2010: Ireland: Need of real action
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party
(CWI Ireland) - 19/10/2010: Ireland: Worst banking crisis in history, insolvency & recession...
By Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 13/10/2010: Ireland: a socialist alternative to the crisis
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 03/10/2010: Capitalism: The Praetorian Guards of the financial markets
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 01/10/2010: Ireland 29/9: "We need real action not rotten deals"
Leaflet of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 29/09/2010: Ireland: 29/9 European Day of Action - Join the protest
Video: Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 27/09/2010: Europe / Ireland: 29/9 - Unions call European day of protest
Michael O’Brien, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 26/09/2010: Public sector union CPSU in Ireland: Build alliance to halt rotten deal
Denis Keane, CPSU Executive (personal capacity), from the website
of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 23/09/2010: Ireland: “First prize in Ireland for hypocrisy goes to the government"
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party
(CWI Ireland) MEP - 22/09/2010: Bankruptcy: Is Ireland going bust?
Councillor Mick Barry, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 19/09/2010: Ireland: Credit downgrade vexes market worshippers
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 08/09/2010: Ireland: Brian Cowen fifth best global leader! You must be joking
Richard O’Hara, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 06/08/2010: Ireland: “How much longer can this government stagger from crisis to
crisis?”
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) member of European parliament - 06/08/2010: Ireland: Up in the polls - Are Labour a radical alternative?
Mick Barry, Councillor in Cork for the Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 14/07/2010: Ireland & the EU: Austerity programmes provoke general strikes and
struggles
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 15/06/2010: Ireland: March on June 26th as part of European Week of Protest &
Solidarity
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 10/06/2010: Ireland: March & Rally in Dublin in "Week of Protest & Solidarity"
CWI - 07/06/2010: Ireland: Will Ireland follow Greece?
Kevin McLoughlin, from June 2010 issue of The Socialist (paper of the
Socialist Party, CWI Ireland) - 02/06/2010: Ireland: Union leaders try to sell rotten ‘Croke Park agreement’ to
enraged workers
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 22/05/2010: Ireland: A tribute to comrade Peter Hadden’s contribution
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin - 20/05/2010: Obituary: Peter Hadden - an inspiring life for socialism
Niall Mulholland, first published in The Socialist, paper of the
Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) - 09/04/2010: Ireland: Murder of 15 year old Toyosi Shitta-bey
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP - 12/03/2010: Ireland: Government announces further €3 billion cuts
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland - 11/03/2010: Greece / Ireland: Socialist MEP Joe Higgins brings solidarity to
striking Greek workers
Joe Higgins Socialist Party MEP, from Daily Mail (Irish edition) - 02/03/2010: Ireland: Joe Higgins MEP interviewed at protest in solidarity with Green
Isle workers
Video Interview with Joe Higgins, MEP - 19/01/2010: Ireland: 2010 - 15 billion Euro for banks...
By Kevin McLoughlin and Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)
2009: - 11/12/2009: Ireland: Joe Higgin MEP Reacts to the Brutal Budget
Statement by Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP (CWI Ireland) - 26/11/2009: Ireland: 250,000 public service workers take part in one-day strike
Michael O’Brien, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 20/11/2009: Ireland: Socialist Party Conference
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 09/11/2009: Ireland: 90,000 march in national day of action
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 31/10/2009: Ireland: Solidarity Appeal – Protesters threatened with victimisation
for anti-fees occupation
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland - 19/10/2009: Ireland: Stop the cuts, bring down the government
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 08/10/2009: Ireland: Joe Higgins MEP defends socialist opposition to Lisbon Treaty
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 06/10/2009: Ireland: Passing of Lisbon Treaty not an endorsement of hated government
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 05/10/2009: Ireland: "Campaign of fear" sees Lisbon Treaty passed
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 30/09/2009: Ireland: Socialists campaign against anti-worker Lisbon Treaty
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 17/09/2009: Ireland: Socialist Party MEP denounces “campaign of fear” on Lisbon
Treaty
socialistworld.net - 08/09/2009: Ireland: Why the Lisbon treaty is bad for workers’ rights
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 03/09/2009: Ireland: Scabs and courts used against striking dockers
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 26/08/2009: Ireland: Vote ‘No’ to anti-worker, pro-big business Lisbon Treaty
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) reporters, Dublin - 06/08/2009: Ireland: Thomas Cook occupation - an eyewitness account
Councillor Matt Waine, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 06/08/2009: Ireland: Thomas Cook - A courageous struggle
By Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 04/08/2009: Ireland: Thomas Cook occupation broken up by police – workers and
Socialist Party councillor arrested
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 03/08/2009: Ireland: Workers’ occupation at Thomas Cook, Dublin
Socialist Party Reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 24/07/2009: Ireland: Joe Higgins MEP: My first week in the European Parliament
(Originally published in the Irish ‘Daily Mail’, where Joe Higgins has a
weekly column every Wednesday) - 06/07/2009: Ireland: 10,000 electricians on all-out strike
Leaflet text from Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 26/06/2009: Ireland: Socialist success in euro election
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 09/06/2009: Ireland: Audio: Joe Higgins victory interview
Socialistworld.net - 08/06/2009: Ireland: UPDATE: Joe Higgins (CWI in Ireland) wins sensational victory
in EU elections
Socialistworld.net - 08/06/2009: Ireland: Joe Higgins elected as MEP!
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 03/06/2009: Ireland: Socialist Party puts in huge efforts in Local and European
Election campaigns
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Dublin - 01/05/2009: Ireland: Lessons of the Waterford Crystal plant occupation
Cillian Gillespie and Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 15/04/2009: Ireland: Draconian government budget savages workers’ living standards
By Stephen Boyd, Michael Murphy and Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party
(CWI in Ireland) - 24/03/2009: Ireland: Mass unemployment returns
Kevin McLoughlin, from the Spring 2009 issue of Socialist View, journal
of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 17/03/2009: Ireland: After the biggest workers’ demonstration in 30 years…
Stephen Boyd, from The Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI
Ireland) - 03/03/2009: Ireland: What follows the Celtic tiger?
Kevin McLoughlin and Michael Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland),
from March edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party
(CWI in England and Wales. - 26/02/2009: Ireland: Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) ballots for 30 March
general strike
Michael Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 24/02/2009: Ireland: Over 100,000 workers demonstrate against government cuts
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin - 19/02/2009: Ireland: Thousands rally against attacks on public sector workers
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland) - 11/02/2009: Ireland: Waterford Crystal - workers, united, will never be defeated
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 06/02/2009: Ireland: State ‘defence forces’ refuse to be used against workers
Article by Conor Lally, from the Irish Times, Wednesday 5 February - 04/02/2009: Ireland: Mass unemployment returns to Ireland
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) leaflet - 02/02/2009: Ireland: Hundreds of workers occupy Waterford Crystal plant
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, reporting from Waterford - 01/02/2009: Ireland: Workers occupy Waterford Crystal plant
Press release by Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, Dublin - 28/01/2009: Ireland: BATU (Building and Allied Trades’ Union) suspended from Dublin
Trades’ Council for anti-union activities
Socialistworld.net - 26/01/2009: Ireland: Nationalisation of Anglo Irish bank
Socialist Party statement (CWI in Ireland) - 19/01/2009: Ireland: ‘Dell ... Our chance to halt greed’
socialistworld.net - 14/01/2009: Ireland: Fight the job cuts!
Stephen Boyd, from January 20009 edition of The Socialist, paper of the
Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)
2008: - 07/12/2008: Ireland: Sixty thousand march against education cuts in Dublin
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party, CWI Ireland - 23/10/2008: Ireland: Pensioners’ revolt – government forced back
Reporter from the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 14/10/2008: Ireland: Re-nationalise Aer Lingus
Councillor Clare Daly, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), from the
Socialist, October issue - 02/10/2008: Ireland: Government’s 500 billion euros banks guarantee
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 05/08/2008: Ireland: 220,000 unemployed...Recession looms…end of ‘Celtic Tiger’
economy
Stephen Boyd, from July/August 2008 issue of The Socialist (newspaper of
the Socialist Party - CWI Ireland) - 01/08/2008: Ireland: Lisbon Treaty rejected - A harbinger of change!
Kevin McLoughlin, from July/August 2008 issue of The Socialist
(newspaper of the Socialist Party, Ireland) - 23/07/2008: Ireland: Building and Allied Trade Union (BATU) strikers appeal for
support
Susan Fitzgerald, BATU striker - 17/06/2008: Ireland: Working class votes against EU bosses’ neo-liberal agenda
socialistworld.net - 14/06/2008: Ireland: Voters say No to Lisbon Treaty
socialistworld.net - 14/06/2008: Ireland : Lisbon Treaty ‘No’ vote delivers major shock for political and
big business Establishment
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin - 22/05/2008: Ireland: Socialist Party representative questions German Chancellor
about Lisbon Treaty
socialistworld.net - 16/05/2008: Ireland: Joe Higgins in TV debate on Lisbon Treaty
socialistworld.net - 04/04/2008: Ireland: “The most cunning and devious of them all” – Prime Minister
Bertie Ahern finally goes
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin - 15/02/2008: Ireland: Vote no to Lisbon Treaty and EU militarization!
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 31/01/2008: Ireland: 200 people attend Dublin public meeting to discuss national
health crisis
Michael Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin
2007: - 30/11/2007: Ireland: Primary education; ghettoised on racial and ethnic lines
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Dublin - 26/11/2007: Ireland: Students victimised for protesting against Shell and government
ministers
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Dublin - 22/11/2007: Ireland: Dublin bus workers’ strike ends with concessions
Matt Waine, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 17/10/2007: Ireland: Over 200 people at public meeting on Che Guevara
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Dublin - 17/08/2007: Ireland: Shannon Airport crisis - Aer Lingus and government betrayal
Socialist Party, cwi Ireland - 27/06/2007: Ireland: Economic storm clouds gather over new government
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Dublin, Ireland. - 31/05/2007: Ireland: Joe Higgins speaks on Irish TV about general election result
socialistworld.net - 29/05/2007: ireland: smaller parties, including Socialist Party, squeezed in General
Election
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday 29 May 2007 - 19/05/2007: Ireland: "More than just an average Joe"
Roisin Ingle, The Irish Times - 12/05/2007: Ireland Republic: Socialist Party unveils manifesto
Elaine Edwards - 01/05/2007: Ireland: Socialist Party takes on political establishment
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party, Dublin - 27/04/2007: Ireland: Socialist MP condemns “Alice in Wonderland” government policies
socialistworld.net - 20/04/2007: Ireland: “I support nurses, just as I detest parasite speculators” – Joe
Higgins, Socialist Party TD (MP)
Socialist Party, Ireland - 11/04/2007: Ireland: Socialist MP, Joe Higgins, attacks Irish Prime Minister for
visiting George Bush
socialistworld.net - 09/03/2007: Ireland: “Transnational corporations use Ireland as blatant Cayman
Islands-like tax scam”
Socialistworld.net - 15/02/2007: Ireland: “Sold out Aer Lingus workers... [thrown] to the Stock Exchange
wolves”
socialistworld.net - 02/02/2007: Ireland: “Two-tier health service can be deadly”
socialistworld.net
2006: - 28/12/2006: Ireland: Socialist MP condemns Charles Haughey legacy
socialistworld.net - 26/10/2006: Ireland: Bertie Ahern financial scandal
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Dublin - 24/10/2006: Ireland: Socialism 2006 success
By Cillian Gillespie - 06/10/2006: Ireland: Coalition government edges towards collapse
Speech by Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD (MP), in Dáil Éireann
(Irish parliament) - 03/10/2006: Ireland: Financial scandal puts Prime Minister’s political survival in
the balance
socialistworld.net - 01/08/2006: Ireland: Socialist MP condemns brutal IDF bombardment of Lebanon
socialistworld.net - 06/07/2006: Ireland: “Irish government bent the knee to imperialist powers”
socialistworld.net - 23/06/2006: Ireland: Socialist TD (MP) attacks unaffordable house prices
socialistworld.net - 23/06/2006: Ireland: ‘Higgins told to ’go away’ in heated debate’
socialistworld.net - 14/06/2006: Ireland: Lessons of Afghan asylum seekers’ hunger strike
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI), Dublin - 12/06/2006: Ireland: Joe Higgins TD (MP) condemns criminalisation of youth
Socialist Party, Ireland - 08/06/2006: Ireland: Travelling community live in appalling conditions
socialistworld.net - 26/05/2006: Ireland: Afghan asylum seekers hunger strike ended by police
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party (CWI), Dublin - 24/05/2006: Ireland: "Why Australian Prime Minister Howard is not welcome"
Tony Gregory T.D. (Independent) Dublin Central - 19/05/2006: Ireland: “War monger and anti-union” Australian PM not welcome
socialistworld.net - 19/05/2006: Ireland: Afghan refugees’ thirst and hunger strike – eight hospitalised
Socialist Party (Ireland) reporters, Dublin - 18/05/2006: Ireland: Socialist MP supports plea of Afghan refugees on hunger strike
socialistworld.net - 12/05/2006: Ireland: Joe Higgins demands for social housing
socialistworld.net - 28/04/2006: Ireland: Joe Higgins denounces “creeping privatisation of Irish health
care”
socialistworld.net - 26/04/2006: Ireland: Successful Socialist Party conference
socialistworld.net - 07/04/2006: Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns airline privatisation in parliament
socialistworld.net - 03/04/2006: Ireland: Socialist MP fights privatisation of state airline
socialistworld.net - 22/02/2006: Ireland: Socialist MP defends workers’ pension rights
socialistworld.net - 06/02/2006: Ireland: Move to right by Labour leadership on immigrant workers’ rights
Joe Higgins, Dublin, Socialist Party MP, Ireland - 31/01/2006: Ireland: “No to EU directive that undermines a decent wage, conditions
and union rights”
socialistworld.net - 20/01/2006: Chile: Michel Bachelet, first woman to be elected President of Chile
Patricio Guzmán, Socialismo Revolucionario, Santiago, Chile
2005: - 23/12/2005: Ireland: Irish Ferries - Bosses let off the hook by bad deal
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party, Ireland - 11/12/2005: Ireland: Over 100,000 workers march across cities and towns
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI), Dublin - 04/12/2005: Ireland: Travelling community live in appalling conditions
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, Ireland - 29/11/2005: Ireland: Irish Ferries – Call for 24 hour national work stoppage
socialistworld.net - 28/11/2005: Ireland: No to slave labour at Irish Ferries
Socialist Party, Ireland - 17/11/2005: Ireland: Sinn Fein embraces capitalism
Socialist Party Councillor Mick Barry, Cork - 17/11/2005: Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns Irish Ferries 543 sackings
socialistworld.net - 05/11/2005: Ireland: Socialist MP speaks on Irish unification
socialistworld.net - 17/10/2005: Ireland: Irish Ferries’ slave labour
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party, Ireland - 27/09/2005: Ireland: Hundreds protest over US warplanes using Shannon Airport
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party, Ireland - 09/09/2005: Ireland: ‘Ballad of the Rossport five’
David McKittrick, The Independent - 08/09/2005: Ireland: Outrage over continuing jailing of Rossport Five
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD (MP), Ireland - 08/09/2005: Ireland: Socialist MP condemns Bush administration’s response to
Hurricane Katrina
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD (MP), comments on the Hurricane Katrina
disaster: - 05/08/2005: Ireland: Corrib gas - Fianna Fail’s rotten deal with Shell
Orla Drohan, Socialist Party, Ireland - 02/08/2005: Ireland: Free the ‘Rossport Five’
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD (member of Irish Parliament) - 27/06/2005: Ireland: Joe Higgins calls for proper funding for children’s health and
welfare
socialistworld.net - 27/06/2005: Ireland: “Last man standing” – Magazine profile of Joe Higgins,
Socialist Party TD (MP)
Village Magazine - 27/06/2005: Ireland: Picket of Pakistani warship docked in Cork over repression of
telecom workers
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party, Cork - 26/06/2005: Ireland: Pakistan telecom workers’ struggle raised in Irish parliament
socialistworld.net - 20/06/2005: Ireland: GAMA Turkish workers’ case just the tip of the iceberg
Tommy Fitzgerald, Regional Organiser BATU (Building workers’ union) - 16/06/2005: Ireland: Sinn Fein delivers windfall for developers
Councillor Clare Daly, Socialist Party, Dublin - 14/06/2005: Ireland: Historic victory for Turkish GAMA workers
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Dublin - 30/05/2005: Ireland: Gama forced to pay overtime by Labour Court
Joe Higgins T.D. Socialist Party - 26/05/2005: Ireland: Big business avoids paying taxes as education sector suffers
socialistworld.net - 20/05/2005: Ireland Republic: Aer Lingus privatisation questioned in Parliament
socialistworld.net - 09/05/2005: Ireland: Gama workers win more concessions from management
socialistworld.net - 02/05/2005: Ireland: Partial retreat by GAMA management
Michael O’Brien, Socialist Party, Dublin - 29/04/2005: Ireland: Gama Construction denies its workers food and housing
socialistworld.net - 28/04/2005: Ireland: Dispute at GAMA construction escalates
Turkish Workers Action Group, Press Notice, Sunday, April 24th 2005,
Dublin, Ireland - 24/04/2005: Ireland: GAMA Workers fight slave wages
Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party, Ireland - 24/04/2005: Ireland: Protests force McDowell climbdown
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party, Ireland - 21/04/2005: Ireland: Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MP fights for "real people"
Miriam Lord, Irish Independent, Wednesday 13 April - 20/04/2005: Ireland: Gama workers continue their brave struggle
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Dublin - 18/04/2005: Ireland: All thats left (profile of Joe Higgins)
By Alison O’Connor, Sunday Business Post - 15/04/2005: Ireland: Gama workers protests outside the Dáil
- 15/04/2005: Ireland: Gama workers protests outside the Dáil (part 2)
- 13/04/2005: Ireland: Joe Higgins questions Irish Prime Minister on Gama Construction
socialistworld.net - 12/04/2005: Ireland: Protest lobby against GAMA construction
- 05/04/2005: Ireland: Turkish Gama workers strike for unpaid wages
Michael Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI), Dublin - 02/04/2005: Ireland: Exposing rampant exploitation of migrant workers.
By Michael O’Farrell, Irish Examiner Political Reporter in Amsterdam - 30/03/2005: Ireland: Higgins warns Socialist Party that FF could win third term
Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times 28.3.5 - 26/03/2005: Ireland: “My ordeal in Nigeriaâ€
socialistworld.net - 25/03/2005: Ireland: Kunle’s thanks for overturning deportation
Elukanlo Olukunle - 24/03/2005: Ireland: Irish Justice Minister forced to back down on deportation
socialistworld.net - 22/03/2005: Ireland: The shameful story of the deportation of Elukanlo Olakunle
socialistworld.net - 18/03/2005: Ireland: Building workers paid €2-€3 per hour
Stephen Boyd - 08/02/2005: Ireland Republic: Socialist MP attacks Prime Minister over convicted
ex-minister
socialistworld.net
2004: - 21/12/2004: Ireland: Joe Higgins - ’Best Dáil performer of the year’
socialistworld.net - 20/12/2004: Ireland: Joe Higgins denounces €53m haul on land speculation
socialistworld.net - 09/12/2004: Ireland: Joe Higgins, socialist MP, denounces Bertie Ahern’s conversion
to socialism.
socialistworld.net - 19/11/2004: Ireland: Privatisation - capitalism’s great theft
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Ireland - 16/11/2004: Ireland: Socialism Today - weekend of debates in Dublin
Socialist Party Ireland - 11/11/2004: Ireland: "Monstrous arsenal of armaments" used against Fullaja
socialistworld.net - 20/10/2004: Ireland: Socialist MP, Joe Higgins, challenges Kofi Annan, UN Secretary
General
socialistworld.net - 11/10/2004: Ireland: Socialist Party MP "sticks the boot in" against airline
privatisation
socialistworld.net - 29/06/2004: Ireland: Bush not welcome here
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Youth, Ireland - 23/06/2004: Ireland: Fianna Fail punished in elections
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Ireland - 15/05/2004: Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns government’s scaremongering against
protesters
- 14/05/2004: Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns ’Citizenship Referendum’
- 13/05/2004: Ireland: ’One Joe Higgins more effective than five Sinn Féin TDs’
Michael O’Farrell and Fionnán Sheahan, ‘Irish Examiner’ (12/05/04) - 27/02/2004: Ireland: Apprentices walk-out over fees threat
Matt Waine, Socialist Youth, Dublin - 21/02/2004: Ireland: How to Stop the Racist Attacks
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party, Ireland - 17/02/2004: Ireland: Airport stewards end hunger strike as TGWU concedes inquiry
Press release on behalf of airport shop stewards - 16/02/2004: Ireland Republic: Anti bin tax campaign - South Dublin County Council
Residents resist Bin Tax
By Kevin McLoughlin - 16/02/2004: Ireland: Sacked airport shop stewards to start hunger strike
- 15/02/2004: Ireland: Joe Higgins MP condemns reactionary "Immigration Bill 2004"
- 26/01/2004: Ireland: Bin tax battle has undermined all established political parties
Kevin Mcloughlin - 20/01/2004: Ireland: Government face backlash
Michael Murphy - 12/01/2004: Ireland: A government of Stealth taxes and savage cuts
Katia Hancke, Socialist Party, Ireland
2003: - 04/12/2003: Ireland: Ahern on borrowed time
Michael Murphy, Socialist Party, cwi Ireland - 03/12/2003: Ireland - bin tax campaign: Bin tax battle
From Socialist Voice, paper of the Socialist Party, cwi in Ireland - 17/11/2003: Ireland Republic: Anti bin tax campaign - Visit to Mountjoy prison
Oisin Kelly - 11/11/2003: Ireland: Rank hypocrisy of judicial/ political establishment revealed
Joe Higgins T.D. Socialist Party - 10/11/2003: Ireland: Urgent appeal for messages of support
Matt Waine - 08/11/2003: Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns latest bin tax jailing - two
- 07/11/2003: Ireland: Parliament deputies call on union leaders to act on bin tax
crisis
- 06/11/2003: Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns latest bin tax jailing
cwi online - 03/11/2003: Ireland - Bin tax row: More Jailings likely
Anti bin tax campaign press release - 30/10/2003: Ireland: Anti-bin charges campaign seriously disrupts services
cwi online - 27/10/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the anti bin tax campaigners - A message to all
bin workers
- 25/10/2003: Ireland - Free the bin tax campaigners: "Housholders’ refuse bins
stolen" to-day and held to ransom by Council
South Dublin Anti-Bin Tax Campaign press release, Friday 24 October 2003 - 20/10/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the Bin Tax campaigners - Mass struggle shakes
the Establishment
Kevin McLoughlin, Dublin. - 17/10/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the Bin Tax Campaigners - Picket of the Irish
Consulate in Cardiff
Dave Reid, Socialist Party, Wales - 15/10/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the bin tax campaigners - Greater Dublin City Bin
service shut down! Bin workers come out in solidarity action!
Kevin Simpson, Dublin - 11/10/2003: Bin Tax Supplement: Bin Tax Jailings: Unions must act
By Stephen Boyd - 09/10/2003: Ireland - Free the bin tax twelve: 10 more anti-bin tax protesters jailed
cwi online - 08/10/2003: Free the bin tax two: A decisive stage in the struggle
- 03/10/2003: Ireland - Free the bin tax two: Impressive international support for Joe
Higgins and Clare Daly.
CWI Online - 02/10/2003: Ireland - Free the bin tax two: Sri Lankan left calls for immediate
release
- 01/10/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the bin tax two: Interantional protests continue
Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI), Sweden. - 01/10/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the bin tax two - Irish Times columnist misses
Joe Higgins and ridicules main parties
- 28/09/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the bin bag two - Government’s attacks boosting
Socialists’ reputation
Peter Hadden, Dublin - 27/09/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the bin tax two: Protests in the US, Australia
and Greece
Bryan, Socialist Alternative, NY - 27/09/2003: Ireland Republic: Free the bin tax two - Joe Higgins infuriated over
ICTU leader "Stab in the back"
Mick Barry, Socialist Party colleague - 25/09/2003: Ireland: Global protests over jailed anti-tax activists
CWI Online - 25/09/2003: Ireland: Dutch councillors’ solidarity with imprisoned anti-tax
activists
- 25/09/2003: Free Joe and Clare: Athens protest outside Irish embassy
Xekinima, cwi Greece - 25/09/2003: Free Joe and Clare: Scottish trade unionists and socialists demand the
release of Joe Higgins and Clare Daly
cwi online - 24/09/2003: Ireland: Jailings a scandal!
Fingal Anti-Bin Tax Campaign - 23/09/2003: Ireland: Five thousand march in Dublin
CWI online - 21/09/2003: Ireland: It’s an outrage! Free the Bin Tax Two!
Socialist Party, CWI in Ireland - 19/09/2003: Ireland: Breaking news: MP Joe Higgins and councillor Clare Daly sent to
Mountjoy Prison today!
cwi online - 17/09/2003: Ireland: Bin Tax Battle reaches decisive stage
Mick Barry, Socialist Party, Ireland - 17/09/2003: Ireland Republic: Joe Higgins MP and Councillor Clare Daly threatened
with prison for fighting the Bin Tax!
CWI Online - 17/06/2003: Ireland: One year in power, a government of crisis
Michael Murphy, Socialist Party, CWI in Ireland - 31/05/2003: Ireland: Irish prime minister cornered by Socialist MP over Iraq lies
Joe Higgins TD, Dublin - 21/05/2003: Ireland: Brave fight defeats oil company
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD - 19/05/2003: Ireland: Aer Lingus catering workers protest
- 17/05/2003: Ireland: Gearing up for bins battle
Diarmuid Naessens - 13/02/2003: Ireland: Socialist member of parliament champions mass opposition to war
Speech by Joe Higgins in the Dáil, 11 February 2003 - 04/02/2003: Ireland Republic: Joe Higgins, socialist MP denounces war in Parliament
Signed by Tony Gregory T.D., Joe Higgins T.D. (Socialist Party), Seamus
Healy T.D., Gerry Cowley T.D. and Finian McGrath T.D.
2002: - 24/10/2002: Ireland South: Referendum - How the bosses got their Yes vote
Michael Murphy, Socialist Party, Ireland - 17/10/2002: Ireland South: Flood Tribunal reveals Fianna Fail’s web of corruption
Michael Murphy, Socialist Party, Ireland - 16/10/2002: Ireland South: Government of crisis
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Ireland - 20/09/2002: Ireland: Socialist Youth fight the system
Zena Awad, 5 September. - 13/07/2002: Ireland South: Joe Higgins MP hammers corruption
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MP, Ireland, 11 July 2002 - 22/05/2002: Ireland South: Spectacular election successes for Socialist Party
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