Sinn Féin Agrees To Join Coalition With Right Wing Parties
The mainstream media have focused on Gerry Adam’s announcement that he is to step down as President of Sinn Féin and will not contest the
November 20, 2017
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The mainstream media have focused on Gerry Adam’s announcement that he is to step down as President of Sinn Féin and will not contest the
Sinn Féin have embarked upon a dramatic shift in position on the EU. Despite having been uncritical cheerleaders of the institution in the last two
Gerry Adams’ announcement that he will stand again for Uachtaran of Sinn Fein would appear to indicate continuity with the past. However his leadership has
Gerry Carroll has condemned an attack on him by Paul Maskey’s election agent Cllr Ciaran Beattie, where he labelled the People Before Profit MLA a
Embedded video of Brid Smith speaking at Dublin City Council about the budget and Sinn Fein's Response;
The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) has described proposed cuts to the education budget in the North as “unprecedented in their ferocity and highly alarming” and likely to see between 4 and 5,000 teaching jobs being cut. The cuts, proposed by Sinn Fein Minister for Education, Catriona Ruane, amount to a staggering £871 million over the next four years.
DEBATE ON AUSTERITY AT FEILE AN PHOBAIL
This year’s Feile an Phobail festival in West Belfast featured an important debate between Sinn Fein , People Before Profit and the Workers Party.
Joe Austin for Sinn Fein argued that his party was blocking austerity and was willing to collapse the Stormont agreement if others tried to push it through.
However, this claim was challenged by Kieran Allen from People Before Profit who cited the INTO figure that 3,000 teaching posts will be lost.
This year’s Feile an Phobail festival in West Belfast featured an important debate between Sinn Fein , People Before Profit and the Workers Party.
Joe Austin for Sinn Fein argued that his party was blocking austerity and was willing to collapse the Stormont agreement if others tried to push it through.
However, this claim was challenged by Kieran Allen from People Before Profit who cited the INTO figure that 3,000 teaching posts will be lost.
The situation in Gaza is worsening. The humanitarian crisis is escalating daily with the continuing siege by the Israelis. As of 1 January 2012, approximately 600,000 refugees will not receive their three month food ration from the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) because as a result of the siege most people are dependent on aid relief from the UN agency.
The Freedom Flotilla which had attempted to sail in June was prevented from sailing from Greece by Israeli pressure. The Irish ship, the MV Saoirse, was sabotaged while docked in Turkey at the time but has since been repaired.
The boats, two civilian vessels, carrying 27 passengers from seven countries, are currently in international waters en route to Gaza.
People Before Profit Councillor Hugh Lewis (Ballybrack) is participating in this humanitarian and solidarity mission with Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy, Sinn Fein representatives and others from civil society.
At 11.30am today the ships were 225 nautical miles from Gaza, 99 nautical miles w/sw of Cyprus and they expect to reach the port of Gaza sometime tomorrow if they are allowed to continue without interception by the Israelis.
The newly formed United Left Alliance (ULA) which involves the People Before Profit Alliance, the Socialist Party & the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group, is opposed to the governments’ bailouts and the slash and burn policies which are only making the crisis worse. In the general election we aim to provide a real alternative to the establishment parties as well as Labour and Sinn Fein, who also accept the capitalist market and refuse to rule out coalition with right wing parties. The approach of a Fine Gael / Labour government in power would not be fundamentally different than this government.
The ULA will be standing candidates throughout the country and we are inviting all people, campaigns and groups that want to fight for real change and who agree with our demands to become part of the Alliance.
The United Left Alliance (ULA):
1. Rejects so-called solutions to the economic crises based on slashing public expenditure, welfare payments and workers’ pay. There can be no just or sustainable solution to the crisis based on the capitalist market. Instead we favour democratic and public control over resources so that social need is prioritised over profit.
Packed out public meeting on staffing levels at St Michael’s Hospital Last Wednesday Richard Boyd Barrett hosted a packed meeting about unsafe staffing levels across
Nurses and health workers are staging protests over the issues caused in our health service by the Pay and Numbers Strategy. This puts a much
Congratulations to Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and another Palestine activist who had their charges dismissed in court today. They were falsely charged for public order offences
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