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11 April 2012
Ireland: Mass movement against household tax and austerity
Widespread opposition to new tax as registration deadline passes: Saturday 31 March was the deadline set by the Irish government for 1.86 million households in the south of Ireland to register for their new household tax
12 January 2012
Administrators KPMG announced they were 'delighted' to have saved 1,000 jobs with La Senza in the UK on Monday, writes Ian Harris, Hillingdon Socialist Party.
2 November 2011
Ireland: Spectacular election result for socialists
Along with the Irish presidential election, a parliamentary by-election took place in Dublin West on 27 October which Ruth Coppinger of the Socialist Party Ireland contested...
17 MEPs and Irish Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins outside the department of finance in dublin, photo Socialist Party Ireland
3 March 2011
Fantastic results in Irish election: Socialists and lefts gain five seats
Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly was elected as a TD for the first time in Dublin North with 7,513 first preference votes or 15.2% of the vote, and Joe Higgins, a TD from 1997 to 2007 and currently the Irish Socialist Party's MEP, was returned to the Dáil (parliament) representing Dublin West, gaining 8,084 votes (19%).
Joe Higgins and Clare Daly
3 March 2011
Elections see collapse of Fianna Fail, the traditional establishment party
Ireland: Socialist Party wins two parliament seats The general election in Ireland was historic but not for the reasons being stressed by the would-be new government partners of Fine Gael and Labour.
Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins
16 February 2011
Hopes and fears in upcoming Irish election
Irish Socialist Party support increasing amongst working class
THE IMMINENT general election in the Irish Republic was called because the dominant coalition party - Fianna Fáil - collapsed out of office in utter disarray. Socialist Party reporters in Ireland write.
Joe Higgins with Clare Daly
26 January 2011
Irish government collapses: United Left Alliance offers real alternative
After the economic collapse of the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' economy, Ireland is spiralling into social and political disintegration. The Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) will stand candidates in the coming elections as a key part of the United Left Alliance (ULA).
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, addresses Socialism 2010
17 December 2010
Socialism 2010: An inspirational weekend
Socialism 2010, hosted by the Socialist Party, was a great success
Joe Higgins, the Irish Socialist Party's MEP, speaking at central SYRIZA rally in Athens, Greece
6 October 2010
Why you should come to Socialism 2010
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Ireland, explains why Socialism 2010 is an important event for all who oppose the brutal austerity cuts...
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, part of a European-wide day of action, called by the European Trade Union Confederation on 29 September 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
6 October 2010
Internationalism against austerity: 100,000 demonstrate in Belgium
HUNDREDS OF activists from across the British trade union movement travelled to Brussels to march against the Europe-wide cuts agenda, writes Nicholas Parker.
6 October 2010
Socialism 2010 - a weekend of discussion and debate
Hosted by the Socialist Party
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 November
Rally speakers include:
- Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Ireland
- Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary
- Cindy Sheehan, US anti-war activist
- Andros Payiatsos, general secretary, CWI Greece
- Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
15 September 2010
Fighting oppression in Kazakhstan
AS PART of a delegation by the European United Left (GUE/NGL) in the European parliament, Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP recently visited Kazakhstan to meet with independent trade union activists, human rights defenders, journalists, ex-prisoners and political activists and people from the social...
1 September 2010
Worldwide protests against brutal attack on three Russian socialists
ON 7 August, Russian CWI activist, Igor Yasin, and two other CWI members, were brutally attacked by thugs following a peaceful protest in Moscow over the proposed construction of a major new road through part of Moscow's green belt...
Video: Stop Israeli state terror: demonstration in London against the killings on the aid flotilla
29 July 2010
Demonstration in London 5 June 2010 after Israeli state killings on Gaza bound aid flotilla
16 June 2010
Socialist Party Scotland launched at packed and inspiring meeting
There were no vacant seats left at the launch meeting of the Socialist Party Scotland in Glasgow on 10 June, writes Philip Stott.
Demonstration against the murder by Israeli commandos of civilian aid volunteers on aboard a ship attempting to bring aid to Gaza , photo Jules Mattsson
9 June 2010
Marches show opposition to Israeli state terror
THE BRUTAL murder by Israeli commandos of nine civilian aid volunteers aboard a ship attempting to bring humanitarian relief to besieged Palestinians in the Gaza strip was met with furious opposition internationally, writes Sean Figg.
2 June 2010
Joe Higgins MEP challenges US Ambassador on IDF killings
Israel/Palestine: "An act of piracy in international waters": www.socialistworld.net, website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI 01/06/2010...
31 May 2010
Israel/Palestine: "Unarmed activists slaughtered" by IDF paratroopers
From www.socialistworld.net, website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI, posted 31/05/2010, writes Irish Socialist Party MEP calls for solidarity demonstrations with activists and Gaza.
Joe Higgins at SYRIZA rally in Greece
26 May 2010
Greece: 2,500 hear Socialist MEP Joe Higgins declare week of action
THE SOCIALIST Party (CWI Ireland) MEP Joe Higgins spoke at a recent meeting in Athens, which was attended by up to 2,500 members and friends of the left coalition group Syriza, writes Harris Sideris, Xekinima (CWI Greece).
19 May 2010
Initiative for a week of European-wide protests
ON THE initiative of Socialist Party (Ireland) MEP Joe Higgins, an appeal letter (extract below) has been issued by members of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament to the trade union and labour movement throughout Europe, to coordinate protests against gove...
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