Éirígí Lar na Tíre

21/07/2022

The reality of human driven climate change has well and truly reached our shores as witnessed by the record breaking temperatures currently being experienced across Ireland.

There has never been a hotter day in Dublin than the one we're experiencing today!

Temperatures peaked at 33°C in the capital today, just a fraction behind the all-time record of 33.3°C recorded at Kilkenny Castle in 1887.

Our planet is facing multiple, simultaneous, human-driven environmental catastrophes!

This destruction is being driven by the current global economic system known as capitalism - an economic system based on the never-ending expansion of markets and the ever increasing production of consumer goods made from our planet's limited raw materials.

The industrial revolution was just thirty years old when Irish Republicanism emerged as an organised political movement in the 1790s.

Capitalism was in its infancy and its potential for global environmental destruction was yet to be fully understood.

Now, over two hundred years later, that potential for destruction has become a terrifying reality.

Climate change, species extinction, habitat destruction and the widespread pollution of land, water and air are the indisputable consequences of a system that places the desire for profit above all other considerations.

Capitalism, as the dominant socio-economic system, has brought our planet and species to the point of global environmental catastrophe.

The battle between capitalism and socialism is, therefore now a battle between chaos and sustainability, between annihilation and survival.

All other battles, over territory, wealth and power will count for nothing in the context of a global environmental catastrophe.

Irish Republicanism, as a political theory and an organic movement, must now embrace environmentalism as both a core value and a site of ongoing political struggle.

Only the creation of a new global economic system, based upon the principles of environmental sustainability, non-exploitation of workers and fair trade between nations, can guarantee the health of our planet for future generations.

Here in Ireland, Éirígí wants to see the creation of a New Republic based on those principles.

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07/07/2022

Organised Workers Fight and Win!

SIPTU members across Ireland have held protests today marking the second day of strike action by care and community sector workers, who are seeking their first pay rise in 14 years.

These protests, held in Galway, Waterford and Dublin, followed a work stoppage by SIPTU members in the Irish Wheelchair Association, which took place yesterday.

The demand of the workers is simple - a first pay rise in 14 years, amidst an ever-deepening cost of living crisis.

Éirígí offers our solidarity and full support to the workers and their demands!

05/07/2022

On this day, one hundred years ago, the Battle of Dublin ended in defeat for the republicans.

The battle for the capital began a week before, when counter-revolutionaries, utilising British artillery, assaulted the republican garrison occupying the Four Courts - with the fighting lasting until the evening of 5 July.

Utilising several 18-pounder artillery guns, along with high explosive ammunition supplied by the British Army stationed in nearby Kilmainham, the counter-revolutionaries held a significant firepower advantage over the republicans.

After the fall of the Four Courts on 30 June, the counter-revolutionaries concentrated their artillery fire on buildings occupied by the Dublin IRA on O’Connell Street and the surrounding area.

Republicans, six years after the 1916 Easter Rising, again found themselves being pounded by British artillery on O’Connell Street, but this time the guns were manned by former comrades - former comrades who had made peace with the British Empire and enlisted themselves as mercenaries to fight those determined to defend the Republic.

The ranks of the IRA were swelled by volunteers of other organisations including the Irish Citizen Army, and Cumann na mBan, who brought with them much needed weaponry and medical assistance.

The republican defences in the capital were overpowered one-by-one, until only a single unit remained.

This unit, under the command of Cathal Brugha, held out in the Granville Hotel on O’Connell Street. Under relentless artillery fire, and in the midst of what was by then a burning building, they were forced to surrender.

Despite ordering his men to surrender, Brugha refused to do so himself - instead he confronted the counter-revolutionaries who later shot and mortally wounded him.

The Battle of Dublin was over.

Today we still live in an Ireland that was shaped by the momentous events of the revolutionary period - events which led to the partition of Ireland and the creation of two conservative, sectarian, capitalist states.

One hundred years after the end of the Battle of Dublin, Éirígí is fighting for the creation of a new all-Ireland Republic of the type that was envisioned in the 1916 Proclamation and 1919 Democratic Programme.

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28/06/2022

A Chairde,

Éirígí Lar na Tire are raising funds for the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, and we are asking people to please donate, get involved, or just share the link and help us raise some funds for this fantastic charity.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/umb8z-kevin-bell-repatriation-trust/share

27/06/2022

Trade unions in Ireland are imperfect organisations in many ways, but they remain one of the only way for workers to have some influence on how their workplace operates.
They are also on of the main guarantors of a fairer economy and, everywhere that unions are strong, societal inequalities are reduced.
While the struggle for a decent life for all on the Island has many fronts, union victories like the one outlined in the article below, no matter how small, are a vital part of this process.

https://eirigi.org/latestnews/2022/6/19/as-cost-of-living-crisis-deepens-workers-and-their-unions-are-fighting-for-higher-wages

22/06/2022

Introducing our new ‘Daft Home of the Week’ series, highlighting the extortionate rents and exposing the horrific conditions facing those renting in the Twenty-Six Counties.
It is no exaggeration to state that the entire private rental market in the Twenty-Six Counties is a pyramid scheme - a fundamentally unstable and inherently unpredictable one!
It’s a pyramid scheme that desperate young people are piling into for fear of missing out on their one shot at a secure home - a pyramid scheme that is hyped up by politicians, estate agents, developers and the corporate media - a pyramid scheme that is being fueled by excessive credit and the transfer of wealth from a generation of parents to their children.
With record rents being charged by ruthless vultures and dodgy slumlords, people are forced into paying ever greater amounts of money renting homes with conditions barely fit for human habitation!
Daft.ie, one of the key players involved in this pyramid scheme, has a long history of favouring these landleeches over people renting.
Co-founded by Ronan Lyons, one of the main cheerleaders of the vultures and slumlords - Daft.ie facilitated discrimination against those on low incomes by including a ban on welfare recipients accessing rental homes if the landlord so desired - a practice which was eventually made illegal.
A quick scroll through Daft.ie shows the extortionate rent people are now expected to give to landlords for substandard accommodation.
As of June 2022, the average rent across the state is a record €1,459, the highest being a average of nearly €2,000 in Dublin.
But if you like getting ripped-off, and being able to do your washing from your bed, then Monck Place in Phibsborough, Dublin 7 is the place for you…
The only way to end this madness is through a fundamental restructuring of the entire housing sector.
Central to that restructuring is the creation of a new system of Universal Public Housing! Find out more about on our website 👇
https://eirigi.org/up-housing
A failure to make these meaningful structural changes - a failure to develop UP Housing - will condemn this and future generations to a never-ending housing crisis!
If you've had enough of the vultures and the slumlords, join Éirígí and the fight for housing justice👇
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Éirígí was formed in 2006 by a group of community and political activists who believed a new political movement was needed to challenge injustice and to build support for a new society and economy anchored in the Republican principles of Liberty, Equality, Democracy, Justice and Community.

20/06/2022

Éirígí activists at todays cost of living crisis protest outside Leinster House in Dublin.
Ireland is now in the midst of the worst inflationary cost-of-living crisis in decades — a crisis which is being primarily driven by dramatic increases in the prices of natural gas, oil, petrol, diesel, coal and electricity.
The knock-on effect of these high energy prices is pushing up the prices of products which require a lot of energy to produce and/or transport, including the prices of foodstuffs and drinks.
As a result of these skyrocketing prices many Irish households, particularly those on lower incomes, are being forced to make impossible choices between paying for heat, light, food, transport and other essentials which have all become much more expensive.
Research has long-since established that people who suffer from fuel poverty and/or food poverty are more likely to also suffer from ill-health and to die younger than the rest of the population.
It is therefore no exaggeration to describe the current cost-of-living crisis as a matter of life and death for many!
A visitor to Ireland, who knows nothing of how the Irish political establishment operates, might logically expect the Dublin government to come up with some new ideas and to take some new actions to deal with this new cost-of-living crisis.
Those of us who live in Ireland, however, suffer no such delusions.
From bitter experience we all knew that that the Dublin government would respond to this new crisis in exactly the same way that they responded to previous crises in banking and in housing - by transferring vast amounts of public money to the private sector.
They are now pumping public money to Big Energy corporations to ‘solve’ the energy and cost-of-living crisis.
Éirígí has been campaigning for public control of Ireland’s energy resources since the party was founded in 2006.
Back then the battleground was on the Mullet peninsula in West Mayo where Shell and Statoil were trying to bring Corrib Gas ashore.
Today the battlefield is focused on Ireland’s renewable energy resources and the infrastructure that will turn those resources into green electricity.
Éirígí’s Power To The People campaign is calling for public ownership and control of Ireland’s renewable energy resources and infrastructure.
Renewable energy - wind, solar and wave - offer Ireland a route to greater energy security and independence as well as stable, affordable energy prices for domestic and business users.
If you’re ready to join the fight for energy justice, for public ownership of Ireland’s natural resource and , join Éirígí 👇
https://eirigi.org/join

Éirígí activists at todays cost of living crisis protest outside Leinster House in Dublin.

Ireland is now in the midst of the worst inflationary cost-of-living crisis in decades — a crisis which is being primarily driven by dramatic increases in the prices of natural gas, oil, petrol, diesel, coal and electricity.

The knock-on effect of these high energy prices is pushing up the prices of products which require a lot of energy to produce and/or transport, including the prices of foodstuffs and drinks.

As a result of these skyrocketing prices many Irish households, particularly those on lower incomes, are being forced to make impossible choices between paying for heat, light, food, transport and other essentials which have all become much more expensive.

Research has long-since established that people who suffer from fuel poverty and/or food poverty are more likely to also suffer from ill-health and to die younger than the rest of the population.

It is therefore no exaggeration to describe the current cost-of-living crisis as a matter of life and death for many!

A visitor to Ireland, who knows nothing of how the Irish political establishment operates, might logically expect the Dublin government to come up with some new ideas and to take some new actions to deal with this new cost-of-living crisis.

Those of us who live in Ireland, however, suffer no such delusions.

From bitter experience we all knew that that the Dublin government would respond to this new crisis in exactly the same way that they responded to previous crises in banking and in housing - by transferring vast amounts of public money to the private sector.

They are now pumping public money to Big Energy corporations to ‘solve’ the energy and cost-of-living crisis.

Éirígí has been campaigning for public control of Ireland’s energy resources since the party was founded in 2006.

Back then the battleground was on the Mullet peninsula in West Mayo where Shell and Statoil were trying to bring Corrib Gas ashore.

Today the battlefield is focused on Ireland’s renewable energy resources and the infrastructure that will turn those resources into green electricity.

Éirígí’s Power To The People campaign is calling for public ownership and control of Ireland’s renewable energy resources and infrastructure.

Renewable energy - wind, solar and wave - offer Ireland a route to greater energy security and independence as well as stable, affordable energy prices for domestic and business users.

If you’re ready to join the fight for energy justice, for public ownership of Ireland’s natural resource and , join Éirígí 👇

https://eirigi.org/join

16/06/2022

Are you a low-paid worker in the Twenty-Six Counties struggling to keep up with the ever increasing cost of living?

Are you struggling to afford the extortionate rents charged by exploitative landlords?

Are you struggling to keep up with astronomical hikes in energy prices?

Don’t worry, you’ll soon have a ‘living wage’……in 4 years……

This new living wage won’t come into effect until 2026, at least according to plans unveiled yesterday by Leo Varadkar (who ‘earns’ €195,321 a year).

All workers deserve to be paid a living wage right now, not 4 years into the future!

If you're ready to join the fight that will guarantee the rights of workers, join Éirígí! 👇

https://eirigi.org/join

14/06/2022

Éirígí activists in Athlone highlighting the privatisation of our wind energy.
The giveaway of Ireland's vast renewable energy sector to Big Energy corporations is one of the biggest scandals in modern Ireland.
Yet the so called ‘opposition’ parties in Leinster House have absolutely nothing to say about it.
Ireland is among the best placed countries in the world to exploit modern renewable energy technology.
For the first time in history, Ireland could achieve a high degree of energy independence by harvesting our wind and solar resources with existing technology.
The electricity that flows from Ireland's wind and solar resources should be provided on a non-profit basis to Irish homes and businesses to help them transition away from fossil fuels.
Instead, the government is handing those resources to Big Energy corporations who are going to generate billions of euro in profit from them.
You can find out more about our Power To The People campaign on our website 👇
https://eirigi.org/power-to-the-people
If you're ready to join the fight for energy and climate justice, and join us! 👇
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14/06/2022

They gave away our oil and gas, don’t let them giveaway our wind and solar!
The discovery of the Corrib Gas Field off the coast of County Mayo in 1996 ignited a national debate about who should own and benefit from Ireland’s natural resources.
On one side was the political establishment who gifted the Corrib reserve to Shell and its partners.
On the other side was a loose coalition of individuals and organisations, including Éirigí, that wanted Ireland’s oil and gas reserves to be held in public ownership and used for the collective good.
(Pictured - Shell To Sea activists, including Éirígí’s Brian Leeson, prior to being attacked by Gardaí in Ballinaboy, County Mayo.)
The opposition to Shell took many forms including legal challenges, mass protests, awareness raising and peaceful direct actions.
The response of the corporate media, political establishment and state to this resistance was as predictable as it was vitriolic and violent.
At the height of the campaign in November 2006 dozens of Gardaí batoned, kicked, punched and dragged people from the road outside the site of Shell’s proposed gas refinery in Ballinaboy.
Eventually Shell and the Twenty-Six County government got what they wanted - the complete giveaway of the Corrib reserve.
Not one cent has been paid in corporation tax by the companies that control it – and even more galling, the people of Ireland are paying the same amount for the gas as they would for gas from anywhere else in the world.
Now we find ourselves in a new fight to prevent our natural resources being sold off to private corporations, only this time it doesn’t involve oil and gas – it involves our renewable energies!
The profits that could potentially flow to private companies from these renewable natural resources could dwarf the profits arising from a non-renewable resource such as the Corrib gas field.
Why should some of the same energy companies that have actively denied human-driven climate change now be allowed to control the pace of transition to renewables?
Éirígí believes that the state, acting on behalf of the Nation, should rapidly develop and permanently control a national network of wind, solar and other renewable energy facilities.
The electricity that is generated from these facilities should be used for the collective good, not private profit. In the current context the collective good involves using that green electricity to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.
Éirígí is leading the fight to bring Ireland's renewable energy resources and infrastructure into permanent public ownership - in doing so helping to secure the futures of this generation and of generations to come.
Find out more about the Power To The People campaign on our website 👇
https://eirigi.org/power-to-the-people
If you're ready to join the fight to bring all of Ireland's natural resources, including our wind resources, into public ownership, join us! 👇
https://eirigi.org/join

13/06/2022

From 2020

Éirígí Lar na Tire members were out in Athlone yesterday showing solidarity to the Debenhams workers in their ongoing struggle with their employers.

Local Éírígí and Mandate Trade Union member Jimmy Rabbitte said "During this pandemic the health and safety of workers has been put on the line. Now as we see yet another economic collapse on the horizon, unscrupulous employers, rather than showing loyalty to their staff, are undermining existing agreements and attempting to asset strip their stores, literally putting their hands in workers pockets. The Debenhams workers are a shining example to all workers who will no doubt face similar attacks in the weeks and months to come"

An Injury to one, is an injury to all!

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