IRSP National Mobilization.

[IrishWorker]

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The IRSP will be launching a new campaign on housing rights with co-ordinated protests across Ireland on Friday 17th of February 2012.

The protests will consist of IRSP pickets outside state housing benefit offices, across Ireland, protesting at proposed cuts to housing benefit and housing support. The following towns and cities will have pickets in their area; Dublin, Cork, Letterkenny, Strabane, Derry, Magherafelt, Belfast, Downpatrick and Dundalk

[ed miliband]

what's the deal with limerick politically?

[IrishWorker]

what's the deal with limerick politically?

Sadly the IRSP are not organized in Limerick, so I am not sure about the situation down there.

I believe there are loads of the "rosary bead brigade" in Limerick?

[IrishWorker]

Downpatrick IRSP Launch Housing Campaign.

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The IRSP in Downpatrick took part in the nationwide launch of the party's Housing Campaign with a demonstration outside the local Housing Executive offices in the town. Posters were displayed and information leaflets were handed out to members of the local community.


IRSP Protest outside former bank building in Donegal.

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Members of the IRSP protested outside a former bank of Ireland building in Lifford Co Donegal today to highlight the fact that in Ireland there are more empty buildings than there are people on housing waiting lists. Members of the party held poster which read:


"THIS EMPTY BUILDING COULD BE USED TO HOUSE THE HOMELESS"


Wexford IRSP to hold public meeting on Housing.

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To tie in with the Irish Republican Socialist Party's housing campaign, the Wexford IRSP have called a public meeting to establish a private tenants association.

The meeting will take place in White's Hotel, Wexford on Tuesday 13th March at 8pm.

The association's aims would be to protect the rights of people living in rented private property in the Wexford area.

In general working people and those on living social welfare who rent from private landlords have very little support if they find themselves in a dispute with the property owner.

In the last budget the government claimed that nobody's basic income was reduced. This is untrue as rent supplement was cut by at least six euro per week across the board. This is the fourth time the rent allowance has been reduced since the austerity measures began.

Tenants were told by the government to negotiate cuts in their rent to make up for this loss in income, however people on rent allowance are usually among the most vulnerable members of society and many landlords simply refused to make any reduction in rent.

There are many other issues that effect tenants, such as poor living conditions, deposits being withheld unjustly, insecurity of tenure and short term leases which mean the rent can be increased suddenly if the landlord feels he can get more income from the property.

There will be speakers on the night discussing these issues and the audience will be invited to say what they would like the association to work towards.

A committee will be elected and a programme of action established.

This meeting is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.

Regards,
Rory Stafford

Wexford Cummann,
Irish Republican Socialist Party.

Telephone: 053 9191687
Mobile: 086 2380980
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IRSP Protest at Housing Executive, Derry.

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Derry IRSP staged a protest outside the Housing Executive head office in Derry city centre to highlight the current crisis in housing throughout the country. Approximately twenty IRSP activists staged the protest while handing out literature to passers-by. There was great interest from the public on the housing issue to which they were largely unaware of.



According to the housing executives report Derry currently has approx 3,000 on the housing waiting list, and 1,500 of those are homeless. The report also states that there are approx 1,500 vacant private dwellings throughout the city which equals the amount of homeless. So why are they homeless?
is just the tip of the iceberg. With the new changes made to the shared accommodation rate where the age has been raised from 25 to 35, we can expect a major surge in homeless applications so things are only going to get worse.

This is the start of our campaign to educate and agitate for our housing rights while the British Stormont regime impose their Tory masters’ wrath on the working class. Derry IRSP will highlight all empty properties in the city and bring them to the attention of the housing bodies with questions as to why they are inhabited while a homeless problem remains. We will educate people on their rights as stated in our document and what they can do to contribute to the campaign.


IRSP Cork launch Housing Campaign.

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The IRSP in Cork took part in the party's national lauch of the Housing Rights - Human Rights campaign today.

In a statement the local cumann of the party has challenged the establishment partys record on housing. The statement said, "The government parties Fine Gael and Labour and before them Fianna Fail have been abject failures on the issue of decent affordable housing in Ireland and with the IMF and ECB demanding more and more austerity this situation can only get worse. The IRSP have today published a policy document that we believe offers real solutions to the housing crisis. We would recommend that as many people as possible download and read the document for themselves and join us in our campaign to highlight the very real economic injustice that is ongoing in Ireland today."

IRSP PROTEST IN BELFAST AGAINST POOR HOUSING.

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The IRSP in Belfast got the housing campaign underway with a demonstration outside the Housing Executive's Belfast area office.

The party used the protest in order to distribute information relating to the crisis in public housing provision across Ireland and to bring to the public's attention the fact that housing benefit rules are changing soon which will make it more difficult to access quality public housing, especially for single people under the age of 35.

The party reported a very enthusiastic response from local people and a real sense of anger at how tory cuts are being implemented by their puppet regime in Stormont.

The party in Belfast plan more actions in the coming weeks.

STRABANE IRSP LAUNCH HOUSING CAMPAIGN.

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The Irish Republican Socialist Party in Tyrone launched the party's national housing campaign in Strabane on Thursday 16th February.

The location chosen was the local offices of the Housing Executive, not because of any issue with the staff at the centre, but as a symbolic protest against ever more harsh Housing Benefit regime that is currently being implemented by the Housing Executive on behalf of the Stormont government.



The party distributed over 500 leaflets to passersby and recieved a warm response from local residents.

More actions are planned for the coming weeks which we believe will show those implementing cuts that economic attacks on the poorest will be fought against.


IRSP in Dublin Launch Housing Campaign.

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The IRSP in Dublin have taken part in the nationwide launch of the party's innovative housing campaign. Members of the party handed out literature outside Fingal County Council's offices in Blanchardstown.

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[Irrelephant]

what's the deal with limerick politically?

Well as a Kerry SPI member I can say that there's definitely a large Left presence in Limerick,second only to Dublin.I've co-operated often with Limerick Comrades and can say they're certainly a very helpful and dedicated group.

[Prometeo liberado]

Is this campaigns' goal an issue driven one or is it part of a larger electioneering for candidates?

[crazyirish93]

shame there is none in limerick might have gone

[IrishWorker]

Is this campaigns' goal an issue driven one or is it part of a larger electioneering for candidates?

One of the IRSPs core political beliefs is;


The IRSP also rejects any parliamentary road to socialism. The IRSP is an anti imperialist Party that seeks to remove the British interference in Ireland's sovereignty as an aspect of the class struggle.
http://www.irsp.ie/Background/whoweare.html


So I doubt electioneering for candidates played a role in organising against the housing crisis.

Also the IRSP are not part of the ULA.

[IrishWorker]

shame there is none in limerick might have gone

I will post details of further events in the IRSP Housing campaign on this thread, if you can make any that would be great.

[IrishWorker]

Well as a Kerry SPI member I can say that there's definitely a large Left presence in Limerick,second only to Dublin.I've co-operated often with Limerick Comrades and can say they're certainly a very helpful and dedicated group.

Great to hear.

[Prometeo liberado]

One of the IRSPs core political beliefs is;



So I doubt electioneering for candidates played a role in organising against the housing crisis.

Also the IRSP are not part of the ULA.

I know so little about the IRSP other than, and I may be wrong, they were or are the political arm of INLA. So thank you for the clarification comrade. Looks like much good work is being done there, can't wait to return.

[IrishWorker]

I know so little about the IRSP other than, and I may be wrong, they were or are the political arm of INLA. So thank you for the clarification comrade. Looks like much good work is being done there, can't wait to return.

Your not wrong comrade.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

I know so little about the IRSP other than, and I may be wrong, they were or are the political arm of INLA.
Yes, the IRSP and the INLA were the two major sections of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement until the INLA decommissioned in 2010.

[IrishWorker]

IRSP Vigil in support of Palestinian Hunger Striker Khader Adnan.

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There will be an IRSP white-line picket/vigil in support of Palestinian Hunger Striker, Khader Adnan, on Monday 20th February at 4pm outside Costello House, Falls Road, Belfast.
khader adnan is a baker from a village called jenin, He is currently on hunger strike he started this action on the 19th of december.

He is being held with-out charge by the Israeli government, this man is on his death bed there has been a petition handed into the supreme court

As of yet there hasn't been any date set for the hearing, Many fear that this man will be allowed to die in jail.

In a very recent medical report it states that he could die at any time this man is protesting against his wrongful detention, A doctor from physicians for human rights was granted permission to see adnan he has been brought to the rebecca ziv hospital.

Upon the doctors entrance to the small horrid room he was horrified by what greeted him, Adnan was chained to the bed from his feet and arms he weighed just 60kg.

This doctor says he could die any day now, his wife who's called randa was allowed to visit him, she brought there young daughter.

she was afraid to give her father a hug as she was afraid that she would hurt him adnans plight has been ignored by the Israeli media, please don't stand by and let this man die.

[IrishWorker]

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IRSP Information Stall - Belfast. 25/2/12


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The Irish Republican Socialist Party held another of their very popular information stalls in Belfast City Centre today. The weekly Belfast IRSP information stalls off busy Castle Street, which began in Spring 2011, shattered the widely held, but false, assumption that only the non-Republican Left could hold regular political events in the centre of Belfast.

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[Connolly Was There1916]

Great work with the housing rights demonstrations Irish Worker, keep it up and raise the Starry Plough on high!