Financial Meltdown: Why Capitalism is in a Mess

Most people are amazed to witness a new Wall St crash when the spectacle of the 1929 crash was supposed to have vanished forever.
For the past thirty years mainstream economists claimed that the market worked perfectly provided there was no state interference or strong trade unions. ‘You cannot buck the market’ was repeated like a [...]

True Story: Ballymun 81 year old in Harney’s Health Service

arlier this week someone close to me was a hospital emergency. Just a few days away from here 81st birthday Mary (not her real name) doubled up in pain. She was passing blood from internally and gagging and vomiting. She was distressed, panicked and crying in pain. She clearly needed to be got to hospital [...]

DEFEND OUR HEALTH SERVICE MARCH & RALLY 11th OCTOBER

Public Health Service Campaign
United for a First Class Public Health Service
Dublin Council of Trade Unions
ICTU Youth Committee
Patients Together
YOUR HEALTH – YOUR PROTEST
DUBLIN 11th OCTOBER
Calling all trade unions, patients’ groups, Trades Councils, hospital
campaigns, health professional bodies, community organisations, health
campaigns, the general public.
MARCH & RALLY
For a first class Public Health Service
Against cutbacks in the Health Service
Against privatisation [...]

Is this the end of Capitalism?

Global financial meltdown: Is this the end of Capitalism?
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Public meeting: Thursday 25th September, 8pm, Shamrock Pub (upstairs) Finglas Village
The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the fourth biggest investment bank in the US, has left the world reeling. Millions of people are worrying for their jobs, homes, savings and pensions.
It was entirely predictable that the financial system [...]

No Wage Freeze- Make the Super-Rich Pay for the recession.

The government wants to impose a pay freeze and is bringing the budget forward to October to dramatise a sense of crisis. But workers should not carry the burden of the recession.
Prices have risen dramatically in the last year and energy costs are due to soar this winter. Electricity is up 18 percent and natural [...]

Bin Tax Latest

Despite the long drawn out campaign in opposition to the bin tax, thousands of householders are still refusing to pay this unjust double tax.
Over 8,000 householders received letters this week from Dublin City Council threatening to pass on the outstanding bill to a debt collector if not paid in 10 days.
DON’T PANIC AND DON’T PAY.
This [...]