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water charges
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Water Charges: We Won’t Pay!
The threat of water charges is back on the agenda. In a statement regarding the next Northern Ireland budget, Tory Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris said that “difficult choices cannot be deferred any longer” and that water charges are one of the options under consideration.
Greens back “progressive” water charges
Many people in the North have voted for the Greens because they want an anti-sectarian and left alternative. Unfortunately, this - and their role in government in the South - shows the weakness of the Greens' approach, which ultimately accepts the limitations and false logic of capitalism.
Alliance call for water charges: No way, we won’t pay!
Introducing water charges here has been on the wishlist of the political establishment for twenty years. The sole purpose of this is to pave the way for wholesale privatisation of our water service. Experience in Britain shows that this would see bills skyrocket.
The movement from below – working class self-organisation
In the last six years, austerity was imposed without the same level of protest as took place in…
How the AAA won a By-Election and the way forward for the Left
October 11 2014 saw the opening of a whole new chapter in the struggle of the working class…
We Won’t Pay Campaign condemns paramilitary intimidation of workers
The anti-water charges We Won’t Pay Campaign condemns in the strongest possible terms the paramilitary intimidation and threats…