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It’s an old adage but how do you know a government Minister is lying – their lips are moving! And so it is with Jack Chambers and Micheál Martin – both of whom are trying to justify the ongoing arrogance and ineptitude of this government. Government Lies Chambers thinks there isn’
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At the end of the giant student and worker demonstration in Paris on Thursday, October 8th, a banner was hung across the July Column in the Place de la Bastille. The banner read “Revolution 2.0, Rendez-vous October 17th”. The banner reflects the sentiment of thousands of mostly young
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If trade unions are serious about changing the conditions workers live and work under, they cannot confine themselves to the workplace – they must organise, mobilise and fight on the political issues that shape workers’ lives. As Rosa Luxemburg wrote, “There are not two different class struggles of the working class,
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The cost of living remains the single biggest issue for workers. A poll in July found "cost of living and housing remain the biggest issues for the country, at 66% and 58% respectively". Corporate profits for supermarkets, energy companies and the financial markets continue to soar. Reuters report
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A real movement - but not a mass one Over the past few years Ireland has developed something that barely existed a decade ago: a recognisable far-right movement with activist networks, livestreamers, local campaign groups, elected councillors and the ability to mobilise around flashpoints. Racist ideas that were once confined
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Eric Blanc’s new book is a helpful, very readable survey of worker-to-worker US trade union organising from early Covid to the peak of the 2024 Trump vs Harris presidential campaign. We Are The Union is rooted in interviews Blanc did with organisers and activists from ‘every union
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Recent hysterical coverage of the AI boom suggests that soon millions of workers will be replaced by chatbots that will do their jobs. This is not the first time these kinds of exaggerated claims have been made. Those making the statements are usually directly invested in AI and its infrastructure.
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Eighty healthcare assistants at the Northside Home Care Services, in Coolock, Dublin, were left out of a pay rise last year because the HSE declared the non-profit charitable organisation ‘out of scope’. The deal they were excluded from was the 9,25% pay-rise granted to Section 39 workers,
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Every worker should be warned about Covalen, a subsidiary of CPL Recruitment. One recent Monday morning, the company said that the jobs of 720 workers were at risk. This came via a brief video announcement, and no questions were allowed. The workers were treated like disposable hankies. Covalen will pick
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The government’s attempts to buy off fuel protesters are pathetic. They consist mainly of ‘temporary measures’ and are geared to support small businesses. There is a ten-cent reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel, but that does not bring prices below the level when Trump and Israel
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On Tuesday 7th April, major roads and towns in Ireland were brought to a standstill by hundreds of tractors, trucks, and buses. The fuel prices protests were sparked by the US-Israeli imperialist war on Iran, which caused the Strait of Hormuz to be blocked off, disrupting fossil fuel supply
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The Lucas Plan: As a Worker’s Alternative Strategy “There cannot be industrial democracy until there is a real shift in power to the workers themselves.” (Lucas Plan, 1976) In January 1976, a collective known as ‘The Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Steward Committee’ published their alternative workers’ contingency strategy in