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THE European Union has exposed its essential class nature in its attitude to the Greek people, the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) declared yesterday.
“After months of arm-twisting, bullying and blackmail it has imposed even more draconian austerity on the working people of Greece,” the party said.
It was also scathing of the Irish government’s acceptance of its role as “gatekeepers and willing collaborators” in defending the interests of the EU above those of the people.
JOHN REES replies to Claudia Webbe
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
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
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT