Article source: http://www.claredaly.ie/clare-daly-td-moves-medical-treatment-bill/

Press statement: Clare Daly TD Socialist Party/United Left Alliance Privatisation of state assets will come at the cost of jobs and democratic control over vital services and infrastructure Responding to the government’s announcement regarding the part privatisation of ESB, Bord Gais and Coilte and the intended sell off of the government’s remaining stake in Aer [...]

Dr. Liu Xiaobo is in his third year of an 11 year sentence in China. His crime was to write a charter seeking democracy, freedom of speech and religion and an independent judiciary. Over Christmas, Chen Xi was sentenced to ten years in jail in south-west China for the crime of writing articles on the [...]

I was pleased to be a part of a protest which stopped an eviction going ahead in County Laois yesterday, 20th February. a group of 30 to 40 people from the United Left Alliance, the Defend Our Homes League, Freedom from All Debt, and the Anti Eviction Task Force mounted a peaceful protest which persuaded [...]

Public meeting 7pm Tue 21 Feb, Gresham Hotel, O’Connell St. Speakers include Vincent Brown, Ailbhe Smyth, Mick Wallace TD It’s easy for this Fine Gael Labour government to pay the bankers billions of euros. It’s easy for them to doctor an EU treaty and deny the people their say in a referendum. It’s easy for [...]

Since the privatisation of the household bin collection system within the functional area of Dublin City Council kicked in last month, it has been one shambolic controversy after another. The threat this week by Greyhound Waste, which was handed the service by Dublin City Council, that it would not collect the bins of up to [...]

SIPTU calls on the Government to suspend the Household Charge, calling it unfair and regressive. The decision was taken by the union’s National Executive Council. Richard Boyd Barrett TD, United Left Alliance responds to SIPTU call on Household Charge on RTE News, Friday 17th February 2012 Article source: http://richardboydbarrett.ie/2012/02/19/richard-boyd-barrett-responds-to-siptu-call-on-household-charge/

Richard Boyd Barrett TD this afternoon welcomes the statement from the National Executive Council of SIPTU, Ireland’s largest union, calling on the Government to drop the household charge. The charge which begins at €100 a year will not remain a fixed charge. The aim – according to the Commission on Taxation – is to impose [...]

Over 200 turned out in Blanchardstown on Wednesday 15th February to hear Joe Higgins TD and local activist Eileen Gabbett speak on behalf of the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes The second video is a compilation of contributions from the crowd Share on bebo Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share [...]

A cross section of TDs have issued a statement calling on Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore to issue a public statement in relation to Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan, calling for the prisoner’s release or, if there is any evidence against the prisoner, for the prisoner to be afforded a fair trial.  Khader Adnan has been on [...]