Socialist Party (Ireland) Struggle, Democracy, Socialism

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Extracts and updates from a series of articles on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, the Israel-Palestine section of the CWI.

Dublin City Councillor Michael O’ Brien of the Anti-Austerity Alliance has today said that DCC should be given NAMA hotels as a public utility for emergency housing situations and that an immediate ban on evictions through rent hikes should be implemented across the city.

A response to the “practical idealism” of the Common Weal.

Return the service to the council, guaranteeing jobs and conditions and a superior public service.

Legislation will force women to continue to travel to Britain.

No apology & miniscule sums add to women's suffering.

Being a young immigrant woman I have first hand experience of the “new jobs” created during this so-called recovery.

From the 1943 Cavan Fire in which 35 children and one adult perished after nuns refused to let girls escape to avoid them being seen in their night-gowns; to the enslavement of poor women in Magdalene Laundries, the last of which closed only in 1996; to the systemic cover-up of child sexual abuse; to the deplorable and sinister infant and child mortality rates in Mother & Baby Homes - the litany of abuse, degradation and oppression presided over by Church and State in Ireland, is simply confounding.

Despite the government and media’s attempts to sell the mantra of recovery, the reality is that the living standards of working people continue to be squeezed. I