‘We won’t be bullied into water tax’

More than 400 people packed the Metropole Hotel in Cork last night for the launch of the ‘We Won’t Pay’ anti-water charges campaign, organised by the Anti-Austerity Alliance.

Those in attendance heard Socialist TD Joe Higgins give a rousing address in which he compared the successful water tax campaign of the 1990s with the opposition to the current charges.

He said that if water charges were allowed to be implemented, it would, after the universal social charge, represent the most serious attack on working-class people and their living standards in the past six years.