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Water Charges
23 posts
Review: Fragments of Victory edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy
Fragments of Victory – The Contemporary Irish Left, edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy, Pluto, 2025 (above…
North: Water charges – we won’t pay!
By Daniel Waldron The threat of water charges is back on the agenda. In a statement regarding the next Northern Ireland…
Failure to invest in necessary infrastructure results in water contamination
By Conor Burke The quality of drinking water in Ireland has long been a topic of contention. Hardly…
Trade union movement must harness mood for change
By Mick Barry TD “Real change” was the demand of huge numbers of people in the February election.…
Oppose water charges through the back door
By Conor Burke From 1 July, Irish Water is seeking to implement excessive-use water charges of up to…
Breaking the rules of a rigged game – join the socialists today!
By Eddie McCabe It’s not a coincidence that three Socialist Party members who are Solidarity public reps were…
Jobstown trial: Organise to oppose criminalisation of protest
By Katia Hancke Two years ago, many working class communities ravaged by austerity demonstrated enough was enough and…
How the protest movement & boycott forced the suspension of water charges
The Fine Gael minority government was forced to suspend water charges. Michael O’Brien argues that this is a result of the protest movement that emerged in late 2014, the subsequent mass boycott of the charge and the fundamental weakness of this right-wing administration.
Non-payment of water bills rises to 73% – abolish the charges now
Remember when a majority of people, by maintaining a boycott, put water charges on the agenda at the last election and 70% of the electorate voted for TDs opposed to the charge?
This weak government can be beaten
By Paul Murphy TD “The reality is that a small clique of hard-left, Trotskyite politicians, who are quite…
