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  • The West Coast mining tragedy – An international and historical class issue

    Byron Clark The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 There is a famous slogan from a banner carried by striking miners at Waihi in 1912, “If blood be the price of your cursed wealth, good god we have bought it fair”. The slogan brings up images of early twentieth century industrialism; gruelingly hard work in Read more

  • Resistance Mounts Against the Blood Budget

    éirígí 01/12/10 As the clock counts down to what many believe will be the harshest budget in the history of the Twenty-Six County state, resistance appears to be gathering momentum. éirígí has long argued that the savage assault being waged against the working class by the neo-liberal establishment in Dublin can be overturned through a Read more

  • The Mana By-Election experiment

    Note that this article does not necessarily represent the views of the whole party. Don Franks Below the big beaming blue and red billboards it was vacuous capitalist personality politics as usual. Labour’s candidate claiming to be “working for Mana’ was Labour Party leader Phil Goff’s press secretary. The best National’s Hekia Parata could produce Read more

  • Law change during industrial disaster

    Daphna Whitmore While the Pike River mining disaster was unfolding the National Government passed new laws to curb workers’ rights. International mining experts say that the mass deaths in Pike River should not have happened in a modern mine in a developed country. Perhaps they were unaware of the marginalised status of unions in New Read more

  • Ireland country report

    The following report was drawn up by the Irish Marxist group, Socialist Democracy 10 November 2010 I Introduction The Irish State is one of the most globalised in the world and for nearly two decades was held up as a model of economic development across Europe and further afield.  Now it is in severe crisis Read more

  • IMF Will Entrench the Economics of the Madhouse

    The following article is by the Irish socialist-republican group, éirígí 20/11/10 ICTU Protest, Saturday November 27th, 12pm, Wood Quay, Dublin Budget Night Protest, March to Leinster House. Assemble 5.30pm, Tues December 7th, Wolfe Tone Monument, Stephen’s Green, Dublin Introducing the catastrophic €400 billion [£340 billion] blanket bank guarantee scheme in September 2008, Twenty-Six County finance Read more