Upcoming Events

National | Anti-Capitalism

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

The Saker

Indymedia ireland

Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

The Saker >>

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Starmer?s Palestinian Pledge Exposes the West?s Moral Collapse Thu Jul 31, 2025 15:05 | Laura Perrins
The fact that either Britain or France would recognise a Palestinian state while Hamas still holds hostages sums up the moral rot at the heart of Europe, says Laura Perrins.
The post Starmer?s Palestinian Pledge Exposes the West?s Moral Collapse appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Muhammad? Tops Baby Name Charts Again Thu Jul 31, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Muhammad is once again the most popular baby name for boys in England and Wales, in a year marked by a growing trend towards global, cross-cultural naming.
The post ?Muhammad? Tops Baby Name Charts Again appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link White House Warns Starmer: Stop Threatening US Tech Companies? Free Speech Thu Jul 31, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
It looks increasingly likely that the sweeping censorship powers granted to Ofcom by the Online Safety Act will be raised in US-UK trade talks, as the Trump administration becomes increasingly concerned.
The post White House Warns Starmer: Stop Threatening US Tech Companies? Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Mainstream Naysayers Gather As Hopes Rise for Fourth Year of Record Coral on the Great Barrier Reef Thu Jul 31, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Despite three record years of coral growth, the mainstream media keeps pushing doom and gloom on the Great Barrier Reef ? a story that doesn't quite add up, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
The post Mainstream Naysayers Gather As Hopes Rise for Fourth Year of Record Coral on the Great Barrier Reef appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Unless Migrant Crime Is Happening to Them Personally, Many Brits Simply Refuse to Believe It Even Ex... Thu Jul 31, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Britain's migrant crimewave is only invisible to those living in leafy delusion ? just ask Steven Tucker, who rips into the blind elites mistaking burning mattresses for cultural enrichment.
The post Unless Migrant Crime Is Happening to Them Personally, Many Brits Simply Refuse to Believe It Even Exists ? Especially Our Blinkered Rulers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Unite Publishes Alternative ‘people’s Budget’

category national | anti-capitalism | press release author Thursday December 02, 2010 13:22author by Jerry Cornelius - UNITE Report this post to the editors

* Growth budget will use assets to generate jobs and reduce deficit
* Measures includes rebuilding of communications, water and waste infrastructure
* Preventative health initiatives and improvements to built environment
* Loan guarantee scheme for business, action to prevent long term unemployment

UNITE PUBLISHES ALTERNATIVE ‘PEOPLE’S BUDGET’

* Growth budget will use assets to generate jobs and reduce deficit
* Measures includes rebuilding of communications, water and waste infrastructure
* Preventative health initiatives and improvements to built environment
* Loan guarantee scheme for business, action to prevent long term unemployment

The UNITE trade union has today published an alternative ‘People’s Budget’ which is based on investment from existing resources, job creation and a growth led reduction of the deficit. The document outlines how this budget will be more effective than the Government plan and how it will foster growth to escape from the vicious economic recession which threatens to blight Ireland for a decade or more.

“The economic landscape which faces Ireland today is bleak,” said Jimmy Kelly, UNITE Irish Regional Secretary.

“The reality for many hundreds of thousands of families is that their living standards are in freefall, their children are faced with no choice but to emigrate and those who are cursed by unemployment have little prospect of securing work.”

“It was not meant to be like this. The government asked for the trust of the Irish people as they cut €14 billion out of the economy in the past two years. They said it was necessary to share the pain in order that the public finances could be brought back under control. They misled the nation.”

“Now they say a further €15 billion cuts are needed in order to make the same broken promise. They are selling our future.”

“The agreement shamefully concluded with the EU and IMF last weekend must be changed if we are to have any form of prosperity in the future. To fail in that will consign the country to decades of penury. This cannot be allowed.”

“The People’s Budget published today by UNITE outlines a viable alternative budgetary strategy. It is one that will reduce the deficit through encouraging growth. It will get people back to work. It will use the assets which we have built as a nation to help us in this dark hour.”

The People’s budget outlines how each €1 Billion investment will create up to 12,000 jobs in areas that will be of lasting long term benefit to the country. It calls for an investment over four years of €15 Billion from current cash assets held by the nation of €35 Billion, even after bank recapitalisations.

Proposals for an end to regressive tax incentives, tax increases initially on high earning groups and the reinvestment in the economy of efficiencies from the provision of public services will allow for among other things the building of a communications infrastructure to support the talented young companies operating on a global digital stage; the introduction of preventative health initiatives that will improve the well being of all citizens; and the upgrading of water and waste networks and the built environment that will create employment and save wasted money on inefficient systems.

“This People’s Budget does not involve pouring money into a failed banking system and the private pockets of those who gambled that the speculative bubble would last forever.”

“It points to a better way forward. A way that will make the present bearable and create a future where the next generation of Irish citizens can live and work in the country of their parents.”

“It must be in the public hands to choose between despair and hope, a begging bowl or a future created and controlled by the Irish people. To do so a general election is needed immediately, before the current policy drives us off an economic cliff.”

“The voices which have been centre stage in Ireland up to now are the voices of government ministers, bankers, bond holders, the IMF and speculators.”

“The voice of the people must now be brought centre stage. The “People’s Budget” represents our alternative. We need to force a radical change in what is happening to our UNITE members and to the members of every other union and community organisation throughout Ireland.”

“We need to force the political change necessary to have the proposals in the Peoples Budget implemented, whatever that takes. The future of Ireland is at stake.”

END

Further information:

UNITE Regional Secretary Jimmy Kelly 087 9003217
UNITE (Ireland) Press Office Rob Hartnett 086 3851955

www.unitetheunion.com/Ireland
www.twitter.com/Unite_Union_Ire

author by pat cpublication date Thu Dec 02, 2010 13:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Unite calls for national strike

The Unite trade union has proposed a general strike in opposition to the Government’s economic programme and in support of an alternative strategy.

The union has also proposed a campaign of civil disobedience including the non-payment of any water or property taxes introduced in the forthcoming budget.

Irish regional secretary Jimmy Kelly said the union would be putting its proposals for national strike to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in the weeks ahead.

Mr Kelly comments came as Unite published what it descried as a viable alternative budgetary strategy.

It said it would be aimed at reducing the budget deficit by encouraging growth and getting people back to work.

The strategy calls for investment of over €15 billion over the next four years from cash assets held by the State. It also includes proposals to end what it described as “regressive tax incentives” and to increase taxes initially on high earning groups,

It said efficiencies from the generation from the provision of public services should be reinvested into the economy.

Unite represents about 60,000 workers in Ireland.

Related Link: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1202/breaking24.html
 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy