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Cost of living crisis
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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…
Springtime of discontent in the North: 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…
Energy cost hikes in the North: Take the energy companies into public ownership
By Eoin Dawson From December 2021, Firmus energy implemented a 38% rise in the cost of gas across…