Anti-austerity campaign needed

Last Saturday, Nov 24, over 20,000 people turned up to a magnificent pre-budget anti-austerity demonstration in Dublin.

A bus load of almost 40 people travelled from Kerry. They were called out by a coalition of resistance initiated by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Key elements included the official union movement, the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes (CAHWT) and the Spectacle of Defiance and Hope.

Travelling from Kerry were members of the county CAHWT which is made up of people from community groups, those concerned with improving the home help service and the health service in general, single parents, disability rights activists, students demanding increased funding for education and those concerned with septic tank charges and with the right to harvest turf from bogs. Also from Kerry were members of trade unions, including Siptu and Unite, and political parties, including People before Profit, SWP and the Socialist Party.