Solidarity-PBP launch 'radical' manifesto on climate action

Solidarity-People Before Profit has launched its “radical” manifesto on climate action with proposals to put large agri-corporations into public ownership and to impose a blanket pollution tax on airlines.

In a launch clearly tailored toward potential Green Party voters, the party vowed to “move rapidly” towards free public transport at a cost of €500 million per annum, and to close all coal and peat-fired power stations immediately with employees to be retrained on full pay.