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Cost of living crisis
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Students struggle to stay afloat in cost-of-living storm
By Aoife Coppinger On 13 October, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), has called for a walkout…
Freeze prices, not people: ‘Pay as you go’ customers face disconnection
By Finghín Kelly With soaring prices for gas and electricity, many more households will struggle to make ends…
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…
Back-to-school costs – another heavy burden for working-class people
By Conor Burke The cost of kids returning to school is weighing heavy on many parents, especially this…
Capitalist cost of living crisis – Build a movement to demand action
By Conor Payne The cost-of-living crisis is having a devastating effect on the lives of working-class people. Official…
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…
Cost of living crisis: We need price controls and pay rises!
By Catherine Finnegan With inflation reaching a near 40-year high of 6.7% in March 2022, the cost-of-living crisis…
North: Springtime of discontent – co-ordinated action can win real pay rises
Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party in the North “SPRINGTIME OF DISCONTENT” was the headline…
“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…
