‘Take the gun out of Irish politics!.’ This was the refrain of the establishment political parties for the last third of the Twentieth Century, meaning that people should be free from any threats when it came to deciding structures governing the future of this island. These are the very same parties which are now holding [...]

A press conference was held today launching the Socialist Party’s austeritytreaty.ie website and the pamphlet on “Austerity Treaty explained: how it undermines democracy institutionalises austerity”. In contrast to the taxpayer funded government website, the austeritytreaty.ie website gives the true story about the impact of this Treaty on people’s lives. In a series of short videos, the [...]

A press conference was held today launching the Socialist Party’s austeritytreaty.ie website and the pamphlet on “Austerity Treaty explained: how it undermines democracy institutionalises austerity”. In contrast to the taxpayer funded government website, the austeritytreaty.ie website gives the true story about the impact of this Treaty on people’s lives. In a series of short videos, the [...]

The past week has seen massive threats to the passing of the Austerity Treaty across Europe, and has shown a clear and decisive shift away from the austerity agenda. In Holland the Dutch government fell because of the austerity it was supposed to implement, and the passing of the Austerity Treaty is now called into [...]

Tanaiste refuses to repudiate Creighton assertion that Government will commit €11 billion to ESM, even if a No vote on treaty prevents Irish access – as government claims ULA TD says Government position on ESM bizarre In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, People Before Profit/United Left Alliance TD has described recent response’s by the [...]

People Before Profit/ULA TD, Richard Boyd Barrett, last night challenged the government’s inhuman treatment of children with disabilities and their families in their attempt to make “savings” in the Domiciliary Care allowance bill. Closing the technical group’s private members bill on the Domiciliary Care Allowance last night, Richard Boyd Barrett TD slammed the government’s “austerity [...]

Press Statement: United Left Alliance – the people of Greece have thrashed the pro-austerity parties – Irish people can vote against the treaty in the knowing that their opposition is shared by millions of working people and unemployed across Europe Last Sunday’s Greek general election saw the annihilation of the two major establishment parties, New [...]

On May Day the Socialist Party launched its campaign for a rejection of the Austerity Treaty. The core message of our campaign is that the European political, financial and business establishment want to enshrine in law across Europe the type of policy response, austerity, that has already failed across Europe. The structural deficit target spelt [...]

The people of Greece have thrashed the pro-austerity parties Irish people can vote against the treaty in the knowing that their opposition is shared by millions of working people and unemployed across Europe Last Sunday’s Greek general election saw the annihilation of the two major establishment parties, New Democracy and PASOK that have dominated the [...]

Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit TD and United Left Alliance Finance spokesperson, said, “The Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, has just postponed ratification of the Fiscal Treaty today. They had earmarked the 25th May as the day they would ratify the Fiscal Treaty and the ESM, they have now put it back and have not set [...]