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IRELAND’S communists condemned the country’s banking system yesterday after a probe revealed scandalous abuses that led to people losing their homes.
Permanent TSB, which was bailed out by the taxpayer during the 2008 banking crisis, has admitted “deeply regrettable” overcharging and wrongdoing on 1,372 mortgage accounts.
It has set up a “major” redress and compensation scheme for its customers who were forced off their tracker loans onto more expensive home loans.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
