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Make the Real Polluters Pay! PAPtER OF THhE SOCIALIST PAReTY s o c ISiSUE 126 a lisOCTOBER / NOt VEMBER 2019 NO TO INSIDE Housing crisis & abuse of power CARBON p3 TAXES! FEATURE: Winning the class war in the US Make the real p7 polluters pay! Who’s afraid of Greta Thunberg? p9 Join the Socialist Party Text ‘Join’ to 087 3141986 socialistpartyireland WWW.SOCIALISTPARTY.IE 2 NEWS THE SOCIALIST Wealth inequality – a growing chasm By Manus Lenihan The world is becoming an ever- are being chopped up into apart - be more hotels, along with rip-off more cold and harsh place for ments. Showers are shoe-horned in accommodation for the wealthier workers and poor people - seen a few feet from the beds, and ten - students. in Ireland with the housing crisis. ants don’t have control over their Meanwhile this state is a play - own heating. In the 1900s they just ground for the wealthy. called them tenements. But the Growth of REITS marketing departments have been earning their keep: a new scheme Irish banks lent €3 billion to con - Tenement conditions for charging workers through the struction in 2011; in 2018 it was just nose to live in barracks is branded €638 million. The credit for all this An asking price of €400, €500 or as “co-living.” feverish building is coming not €600 a month for a shared room from Irish banks but from Real Es - has now become normal, but you tate Investment Trusts (REITS) and still haven’t seen it all. One ad (From Cities stripped bare international capital. These are the flatsharing FB page RooMigo on people who are demolishing and September 14th) demands €610 It’s not just a housing crisis. The rebuilding our streets. Not that “our per month – not for one room, and closing of the Bernard Shaw in own” indigenous breed of billion - not even for a shared room, but for Dublin shows the way cities are aire is any better. a shared bed! being sterilized and stripped bare. “Extra walls can double income Those cranes that cover the skyline, for landlords!” gushes the Times those vacant lots that are at last Construction bosses call R yanair’s Michael O’Leary is one o (September 30th). Here we see the being built on after being covered the shots f Ireland’s 2,000 “ultra-wealthy” innovative genius of capitalism on with weeds for fifteen years – display yet again. Across Irish they’re not building social housing Construction industry bosses have towns, semi-d and terraced houses or services or places to socialize; it’ll been exposed in a report called “De- economy. Now Foreign Direct In - construction workers, farmers or democratising the Irish planning vestment (FDI) joins it in the dust - paramedics. Buying up shares and system” (Lennon & Waldron, 2019). bin of history: 2/3 of Ireland’s FDI is waiting for the money to roll in is In 2017 the government decided “phantom,” according to re - much harder than a week of 12- that developers could now bypass searchers. For capitalism around hour shift work assembling med - council approval. It was presented the world, having vast volumes of ical devices; networking with other as a way of solving the housing cri - phony FDI is now just part of doing rich people at fancy parties is sis (It has utterly failed, in case you business, and Ireland is happy to much harder than being a single were wondering). But the report oblige. So while the politicians pat parent or a full-time carer; buying shows that it was designed by and themselves on the backs over back your own shares of stock is for big builders. Documenting the “growth” and “investment,” most exhausting work, and those who massive amount of lobbying that Irish “FDI” is just sordid tax- earn their living through this vital went on, the report shows that dodging. task must live in envy of bar - these capitalists thought the plan - tenders, waiters or chefs. ning system was “too democratic” and that “Joe Public” had too much The wealth creators? power. Fine Gael listened with an at - Growing poverty Two thousand people in Ireland tentive ear and implemented their each have wealth exceeding €30 Meanwhile 760,000 of those nurses, ideas to the letter. million, according to Wealth-X. This construction workers, delivery driv - means that per capita, we have the ers, coders, carers, soldiers and Sordid tax dodging fifth-highest number of these waiters are living in poverty – mak - ultra-wealthy parasites in the ing up one-sixth of the population Ireland’s Gross Domestic Product world. But don’t worry, they – and many of them are paying (GDP) has for a long time been worked hard to get where they are huge rents to some of those same ly rent in Dublin is over €2,000 Average month useless as a way to measure the today – much harder than nurses, 2000 ultra-wealthy people. Cork North Central By-Election Cllr. Fiona Ryan – socialist fighter challenges capitalist establishment By Conor Payne will take place across the state. They ers will push for “Green” austerity are an opportunity for working class taxes on working people, we will call ounCillor Fiona ryan and young people to pass judgement for real climate action, and for mak - Chas been selected as the Sol - on this right-wing Fine Gael govern - ing the big business polluters pay. idarity candidate in the upcom - ment, which is facilitated by Fianna This includes fighting for free ing Cork north Central Fail’s co-operation in the Dáil. De - public transport for all, massive By-Election. Fiona is a member spite their talk of “recovery,” many public investment to create Green of the Socialist Party. as an ac - people feel no significant benefits- jobs, and democratic public owner - tivist and Councillor, Fiona has this has been primarily a recovery for ship of the energy industry and a record as a fighter for work - the rich, for landlords, developers other key sections of the economy to ing class people: and big business. plan for a rapid transition to renew - She has led tenants fighting There is certainly no “recovery” for able energy. against evictions, including the suc - those paying record high rents, or On housing, we will campaign for cessful struggle of Leeside Apart - waiting years for social housing. real rent controls, banning evictions ments residents which opened up 59 There is no recovery in the health into homelessness and a massive empty homes to people on the coun - service, or other public services still programme to build public homes. cil waiting list. reeling from austerity. Fiona was a leading figure in Cork No-deal Brexit in the battle for abortion rights . Action on climate change The government and bosses are lin - She has actively supported local On Climate Change, this government ing up to make workers pay the price environmental campaigns, including talks the talk but plans to build ter - for Brexit, while preserving the prof - cycling campaigns and in opposition minals for imported fracked gas in its of big business. We will use the to the disastrous OPW plans for the Shannon and the Port of Cork. campaign to oppose any job losses, such as nationalisation of industries tion of this neoliberal big business river Lee. In Cork North Central, Solidarity pay cuts, or austerity and call for planning job losses, are needed. government and would be a boost for and the Socialist Party will offer a trade union and workers’ action to As the only candidate representing the fight for housing, workers’ rights Punish Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael genuine socialist alternative. While fight back. Socialist policies that this clear alternative, a strong vote and climate action, and for the gen - This by-election is one of four which the government, the Greens and oth - break with the capitalist market, for Fiona will represent a clear rejec - uine socialist left. HOUSING 3 THE SOCIALIST #SexIsNotRent Housing crisis & abuse of power messages to back it up. These mes - drastically altered when she chal - sages graphically illustrate the power lenged him on a maintenance issue Outrageous WhatsApp landlords can now use and abuse and when her HAP payment was de - messages sent by against a backdrop of record high layed. He issued a Notice to Quit. landlord to tenent, rents and record low number of Other HAP tenants told us of land - which Ruth Coppinger rental properties. lords commenting on their appear - TD read out in Dáil in ‘Laura’ wanted to highlight this to ance, discouraging boyfriends and September prevent other women or vulnerable sending suggestive messages. tenants going through the same. We In all cases, female tenants toler - agreed a strategy to raise it in the ated it so as not to risk offending Dáil and media. them and being denied the property. In the Dáil, we made the point that no research exists in Ireland on the Build social & affordable housing extent of sexual harassment by land - Following the revelations, the Min - lords. In England, research by Shel - ister for Housing held a meeting ter found 250,000 women had with Mick Barry TD and myself. We experienced this. In the 25-34 age called for research to be done and group, 13% of tenants said they had the department is to come back By Ruth Coppinger TD faced this in the last five years. There about this. We pointed to the dan - is no reason to think Ireland is dif - gers of HAP as the main form of so - xPloitation haS always ferent — or likely worse, given the cial housing, rather than mass Ebeen part and parcel of the acute nature of the housing and rent public home-building, and argued private rented sector, including crisis.
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