Joe Higgins went head to head with former supreme court judge Donal Barrington on Pat Kenny’s show on RTE Radio 1 yesterday in a debate on Lisbon and how it pushes privatisation, the race to the bottom and militarisation. Listen to it here.
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“No one can say when the unwinding began – when the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way. Like any great change, the unwinding began at countless times, in countless ways – and at some moment the country, always the same country, crossed a line of history and became irretrievably different”.
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Will Labour and Fine Gael commit to repealing the minimum wage reduction?
"This government has absolutely no legitimacy. It has no authority to impose the cuts and tax hikes on working people and the unemployed that we have seen in yesterday's budget. It has perpetrated this savage attack on ordinary people only a matter of two months before they will be annihilated at the polls.