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Global 1% to Own 50% of Wealth by 2016 - Enough Is Enough
There is something fundamentally wrong with this system when 80 people can have the same amount of wealth as what 3.6 billion people have between them. The figures from Oxfam’s latest report show that...
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Thinks Own Government’s Policies may be ‘Morally wrong’...
Speaking at the launch of the government’s Low Pay Commission, Kenny said that “It is morally unacceptable for families with people in work to be experiencing poverty”. He did not however announce the...
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Class War: Household Charges to Rise as Millionaires Multiply by 40% in 5 Years
Recent studies in the North have shown that the rich really are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. It is no secret that household charges are set to rise due to ongoing “austerity”...
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Stormont Gives The Tories The Power To Destroy Our Welfare System
It's no secret that Stormont has gone into one of its regular crises.A few months ago they were arguing over Welfare Reform, then Kevin McGuigan was shot dead and they were then arguing about whether...
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Linking child benefit to school attendance?
One of our dear leaders is set on a plan to link child benefit to school attendance of the children in question. Minister Denis Naughton believes he has strong support for the plan--although many,...
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750,000 live under poverty line in Southern Ireland
A new report from Social Justice Ireland has shown that the economic crisis has pushed 100,000 more people under the poverty line in the south of Ireland, with a total of 750,000 people. That's about...
View ArticleHomelessness & Prostitution - Legalisation not criminalisation
The sex industry is expanding and is said to gross millions of pounds per annum. Over the last year this has been reflected in the increasing focus in the media on prostitution. In October, a brothel...
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London burns - causes & consequences of the riots - an anarchist perspective
The police killing of Mark Duggan resulted in four nights of rioting across England. The immediate trigger was the killing itself, and the disrespect shown by the police to Mark’s family and friends....
View ArticleGlobal inequality is escalating rapidly - let’s end concentrations of wealth...
Oxfam has just released a report that shows global inequality has escalated rapidly over the last 6 years. The particular measure they used is a very important one. First they calculated the wealth...
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Wealth and the working poor - you'd have to work 703 years to earn what...
Roughly over one hundred thousand workers in Ireland are currently working on the minimum wage-thats 9.15 an hour or under 400 euro a week,working 40 hours a week. Around 90% of those on social welfare...
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