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Travelling to Greece tomorrow to campaign for Syriza
Tomorrow I will be traveling to Greece to campaign with Syriza in the upcoming election there. I am lookoing forward to joining in with Syriza’s vital election campaign over the next few days. During my trip I will be blogging here daily, so make sure to check back. Those opposed to disastrous austerity policies across Europe will all be looking to Greece and hoping for a victory of Syriza. If a left government committed to fighting the austerity policies being pushed by the capitalist establishment can be formed, it will have huge...
read moreAusterityTreaty.ie Launched
A press conference was held today launching the Socialist Party’s austeritytreaty.ie website and the pamphlet on “Austerity Treaty explained: how it undermines democracy & institutionalises austerity”. In contrast to the taxpayer funded government website, the austeritytreaty.ie website gives the true story about the impact of this Treaty on people’s lives. In a series of short videos, the key features of the Treaty such as the austerity required and the bondholder pay outs it demands are explained. The website also answers...
read moreSocialist Party Launch Referendum Campaign
On May Day the Socialist Party launched its campaign for a rejection of the Austerity Treaty. The core message of our campaign is that the European political, financial and business establishment want to enshrine in law across Europe the type of policy response, austerity, that has already failed across Europe. The structural deficit target spelt out in the treaty will mean over six billion in extra cuts and impositions on top of the over eight billion already planned. The debt reduction target of 60% GDP in the era of austerity can only be...
read moreMy letter to Gilmore about treaty ‘explanatory note’
Press Statement: Paul Murphy MEP (Socialist Party / United Left Alliance) 11 April 2012 MEP writes to Tánaiste to express concerns over Treaty ‘explanatory note’ being potentially unlawful · Referendum Commission should be given responsibility for drafting note · Threatens legal action if explanatory note breaches McKenna judgement Socialist Party / United Left Alliance MEP Paul Murphy today wrote to Tánaiste, Eamon Gilmore, to express his concern at media reports that the government would send an ‘explanatory note’ to all...
read moreImportant Victory Against ACTA, Protests Must Continue!
Paul Murphy MEP speaks about an important victory on the International Trade Committee against ACTA. ACTA is an attack on the freedom of expression and freedom of the interent. This is an important victory against the interests of the major enterainment corporations. This decision is the result of the protests all across Europe which put all the major establishment parties under pressure. These protests need to be continued and stepped up across Europe. ACTA will come before the committee again in May. It is important that between now and then...
read moreMy submission to E.U. Oireachtas Committee
The level of anger against the failed austerity policies of the Irish Government and the Troika has been growing for the past number of years. This has been seen in the massive response to the Anti-Household Campaign, which has seen over 20,000 people attend meetings across the country, and a mass boycott across the country. Now the government have been forced into holding a referendum. Below is a submission from Paul Murphy MEP to the Dail E.U. Oireachtas Committee explaining how this treaty will institutionalise austerity across Ireland and...
read moreUnpublished letter to the Irish Times
The Irish Times editorial of 29th of February criticised comments I made on the Fiscal Treaty saying it was an attempt to “redefine the issue as ‘austerity’ “. I replied to these comments by letter which went unpublished today. Below is my unpublished reply to these criticisms: Sir, - As your editorial of 29 February suggested, there is already an attempt to encourage people to vote on issues other than the content of the the Fiscal Treaty before us. This attempt comes not from the Left opposition to the Treaty, but...
read moreReject the Austerity Treaty
MEP calls for rejection of Austerity Treaty: Treaty will mean savage austerity to devastate people’s lives and economy People’s opportunity to reject austerity at ballot box Socialist Party/United Left Alliance MEP Paul Murphy announced today that he and the Socialist Party will be campaigning for a rejection of the Fiscal Treaty. “I am calling for a massive No vote and rejection of this Treaty. The Fiscal Treaty will institutionalise austerity in law in Ireland and across Europe. By restricting a country to running a structural...
read moreSign the Petition: Referendumnow.eu
Paul Murphy MEP launched the Socialist Party campaign for a referendum to be held on the Austerity Treaty and an online petition, www.referendumnow.eu, for members of the public to sign build pressure on the government to allow the people to vote on this treaty. “It’s clear that the government has done everything in its power since the very start of the negotiation of this Treaty to avoid allowing the people to make a decision on this Treaty. Now they are hiding behind the Attorney General and suggesting that the calling of a referendum is...
read morePress Release: Grand Coalition of Austerity Elects President
Below is a statement from Paul Murphy on the election of Martin Schulz as President of the European Parliament. · Grand coalition of austerity ensures election of Martin Schulz · Need for new mass parties of the Left across Europe Commenting on the election of the President of the European Parliament, which saw the leader of the ‘Socialists & Democrats’ group, Martin Schulz elected on the first round, Paul Murphy MEP remarked: “Martin Schulz’s election was a foregone conclusion, given the deal...
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