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Rising tide against austerity: Working people and the Fine Gael/Labour Government are on a collision course over the property tax and attempts to cut public [...]

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In the latest issue of LookLeft:
THE 1913 LOCKOUT
1913 It’s importance then and now – historian BRIAN HANLEY discusses the events of 1913 and what [...]

LookLeft Forum – Erik Olin Wright on Realising a Left Alternative

Distinguished Marxist scholar Erik Olin Wright spoke to the LookLeft Forum on 2nd March on the topic of ‘Realising a Left Alternative’. Erik spoke on three different ideas of how social change will be achieved: the ruptural (revelutionary), interstitial (cooperative) and symbiotic (social democratic) approaches. He outlined his own approach which combines the symbiotic and [...]

Grotesque pension payments to former Ministers must end

Legalisation must be introduced to curtail the massive pension payments being made to former Government Ministers – estimated to be costing the Republic nearly €9 million a year – Francis Donohoe reports
Taxpayers’ money is being paid out in pensions to approximately 100 former Ministers, many of whom have lucrative new jobs and positions despite their [...]

Turning back the clock on housing

The Northern Ireland Executive seems intent on allowing profiteers to once more take control of housing provision, with citizens set to lose out, reports Justin O’Hagan.
Throughout Northern Ireland in the 1960s many thousands of people were living in cramped and squalid conditions in Edwardian or Victorian houses, many of which were unfit for habitation. This [...]

Irvine Welsh backs bridge for fellow Hibs man Connolly

Scottish author Irvine Welsh is the latest high profile cultural figure to back the campaign to name the new transport bridge over the Liffey in Dublin in honour of James Connolly.
Welsh told LookLeft, “Connolly was a true man of the people, a great socialist and anti-imperialist. He was also the best kit man Hibernian FC [...]

Joan Burton’s broken promise will hurt poorest families

Paul Dillon
Budget 2013 breaks commitments given by Social Protection Minister, Joan Burton, in April 2012 when she promised not to go ahead with plans to restrict the One Parent Family Payment to those families with Children under seven unless significant changes in childcare were outlined this year. The payment was made up until the child [...]

New LookLeft out now!

Ireland’s leading magazine for progressive news, views and solutions – available in Easons stores and good independent newsagents across the country – 48 pages for just €2/£1.50

In the latest issue of LookLeft:
The New Frontline – Trade unions are re-forging their links with working class communities and building new alliances in the fight to defend [...]

Sinster Shadows

Article originally published in Magill in 2002
The full story of the links between Youth Defence and European fascism has never been told. Until now. A special Magill report. By Scott Millar
The images provided the most surprising twist to the Nice referendum campaign. Martial music boomed out in a hall built by [...]

Time to recognise

After 100 years of struggle, trade unionists in the Republic still lack basic legal protections, Darly D’Art reports
Next year will mark the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. The Irish labour movement will rightly celebrate the great strike and lockout as a heroic example of worker resistance and solidarity. However, it would be mistaken to view [...]

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