Austerity An Open Letter To Green Party Members We are contacting you to urge you to reject coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. As climate activists and concerned citizens we have worked and campaigned alongside many Green 19 Jun 2020
Austerity System Change, Not Greenwashing The Programme for Government from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party is not a radical or far reaching document and will not deliver what we need on climate. 17 Jun 2020
Austerity Plans Condemned To Cut Pup Payment For Nearly 150,000 People Before Profit TD condemns plan to cut PUP payment for nearly 150,000, mostly part time, workers as “misguided austerity” Failure to address anomalies in payment for workers in 8 Jun 2020
Climate People Before Profit Urges Greens To Avoid Coalition Tensions are rising in the Green Party as councillors and more than 60 members have urged Catherine Martin to run for leadership. The current leader, Eamonn Ryan, was part of 27 May 2020
Health UCD Imposing Rent On Trapped Students: Why We’re Not Surprised Throughout this academic year, UCD have rightly faced much criticism about the cost of renting on-campus accommodation. The cost of the rooms on offer, which is already the highest in 19 May 2020
Health Northern Budget Cuts Health Spending The Northern Executive has released its 2020 Budget this week. To address the Covid-19 crisis, drastic intervention is needed to support workers, the unemployed and those struggling on benefits. The 8 May 2020
Austerity They’re getting ready for austerity. We should be ready to fight back. In a shocking leaked memo, the Department of the Taoiseach has said that the next phase of the coronavirus crisis will be “far more divisive”, with ”unemployment, reduced income, increased 23 Apr 2020
Housing No Return To Pre-Coronavirus Status Quo And No Austerity No return to pre-coronavirus status quo and no austerity in post- Covid-19 Ireland At a media conference today on the Dáil plinth People Before Profit TDs outlined what they would 23 Apr 2020
Austerity The Roots of the Nursing Home Tragedy There is a tragedy unfolding in Ireland’s nursing homes. Some of it arises from the natural frailty that grows with age. But some of the deaths from Covid-19 were 18 Apr 2020