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Minimum wage: 80c increase is an insult
By Jonathan Diebold “Young workers in Ireland are financially worse off than their parents. Workers in their 20s…
EU toys with windfall tax: Nationalise profiteering energy companies now!
By Finghin Kelly This week, European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen addressed the European Parliament in the…
It’s a cost of survival crisis: Take on the profiteers
Text of the Socialist Party leaflet on the cost of living crisis. Ordinary people are beginning to fight…
Budget 2023: Government token measures are an insult
By Mick Barry TD Tuesday, 27 September is Budget Day and hard pressed working-class people will be demanding…
Price-gouging energy companies should be nationalised!
By Robert Cosgrave A study from the ESRI in June reported that in the south of Ireland, up…
Cost of living crisis: Trade unions have to act!
By Mick Barry TD “We are looking at three years of high inflation” – AIB Chief Economist Oliver…
Do wage rises fuel inflation?
By Michael O’Brien From the point of view of the bosses there is never a good time for…
“We can’t afford to live” — what’s needed to end the cost-of-living crisis
By Jonathan Diebold The cost-of-living crisis, or more accurately, the cost-of-surviving crisis, is here. Over three quarters of…
Global supply chain chaos worsens
By Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative USA Over 100 container ships unable to unload in the Port of Los Angeles. Auto…
Carphone Warehouse closure: latest casualty of retail jobs crisis
By Peter McGregor Carphone Warehouse has moved in recent days to shut down all of their Irish stores,…
