On the 9th of November 2015 Attac Ireland was proud to host the Irish leg of Maude Barlow's international speaking tour on CETA. This is the speech given by Patricia King of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions … [Read more...]
Maude Barlow, International CETA Speaking Tour, November 2015
On the 9th of November 2015 Attac Ireland was proud to host the Irish leg of Maude Barlow's international speaking tour on CETA. The video is available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmoqPDJsoS0 CETA is currently a … [Read more...]
Report-back meeting from European Civil Society’s anti-TTIP & CETA strategy meeting
A Call To Action: 6.30pm, Tuesday 1st March, 2016, in Wigwam, 54 Middle Abbey St, Dublin 1. All welcome. CETA is just as bad as TTIP and it may be law by mid-May. From 22nd to 24th February in Brussels, activists and campaigners from national … [Read more...]
London Review of Books Lecture by James Meek. “Taxation, ‘Robin Hood in a Time of Austerity'”
The Robin Hood Tax or Financial Transaction Tax (often labelled an FTT in the acronym soup of financial jargon) is a tiny tax on the financial sector, typically only a fraction of one percent. The key reasons for its implementation we can see from … [Read more...]
Fact Card: People Rise Up Against Finance! Why Should You?
STOP TTIP/CETA/TISA These charters for global corporations will, if passed, allow them to ride roughshod over the democratic decisions of sovereign nations and impose their own binding laws in new layers of legislation written mostly by and for … [Read more...]
