The cynical posturing of the Green Party in calling for a January General Election for the “good of the country” will not save it from annihilation when the Irish people go to vote. In three and a half years in government, the Greens have shown themselves to be no more than a clutch of arch opportunists who were quite happy to assist Fianna Fáil make working class people pay for the consequences of the economic and political crimes of that party who carry full responsibility for the disaster which has been viswited on society.
The very successful lobby of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Manchester, organised by the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), points the way forward for the trade union movement in the looming conflict between the organised working class and the brutal Con-Dem government.
Tommy Black, Socialist Party candidate for East Belfast, has today hit out at OFMDFM’s decision to provide the Ballymac Plazone childcare scheme with only 3 months of reduced funding.
SNP government ministers have made huge windfalls by selling their second homes, after the mortgage interest was paid for by the public purse.
