It has been revealed that seven housing associations, notorious for raising rents, pay their chief executives more than £100,000 a year! The combined chief executive salary budget across all housing associations in Northern Ireland stands over £2million. This does not include bonuses and the provision of expensive BMW’s and Audi’s. But they don’t need to worry, the Minister for Social Development Alex Attwood has said he will deal with this by proposing a “voluntary” pay cut for top earners – that will get ‘em shakin in their boots for sure Alex!
The publication of James Connolly’s Labour in Irish History 100 years ago this year was a landmark in the development of a socialist and Marxist understanding of Irish history. In this book James Connolly sought to outline the key social struggles of Irish working people uniting all religions and to explain why the struggle for national liberation against British imperialism was inherently linked with these movements.
For international solidarity and struggle for socialism!