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Ireland: Jobstown Trial Exposes Establishment

June 14, 2017Ann Waddell

Ann Waddell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Two and a half years ago in Ireland, nationwide protests against water charges – a new double tax introduced along with massive austerity measures – were building steadily. As the rate of nonpayment by households was rising toward 70%, Joan Burton, a leading government […]

Ireland:The Jobstown trial threatens democratic rights

December 10, 2016Eddie McCabe

Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Biggest political trial in decades, as Socialist Party & Anti Austerity Alliance MP and councillors face threat of lengthy prison sentences The trumped-up charge of false imprisonment and the guilty verdict in the case of a 17-year old who participated in a peaceful […]