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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link US to Deny Visas to Foreign Officials Who Try to Censor US Social Media Platforms Wed May 28, 2025 17:41 | Toby Young
Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has said that not only will he deny visas to officials of foreign states engaged in censorship of American social media platforms, but to their "immediate family members" as well.
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offsite link Dominic Cummings: Nigel Farage Could Definitely be Next PM Wed May 28, 2025 15:00 | Toby Young
Dominic Cummings has told Sky News that "Kemi is a goner", the Tories may have "crossed the event horizon" and Nigel Farage could be the next prime minister.
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offsite link The Net Zero Agenda?s Continued Collapse Into Chaos Wed May 28, 2025 13:11 | Ben Pile
The Net Zero agenda is collapsing into chaos, says Ben Pile, as soaring energy bills and green spin reveal a costly mess where consumers are left footing the bill.
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offsite link AI Data Centre Blitz Threatens Labour?s Net Zero Hopes Wed May 28, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Keir Starmer's push to supercharge the economy through a wave of AI data centres risks derailing Labour's Net Zero ambitions, with one Northumberland site alone set to emit as much CO? as Birmingham Airport.
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offsite link Starmer Dragged Into Free Speech Union?s Koran-Burning Court Case Wed May 28, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Hamit Coskun, a Turkish asylum-seeker, is being prosecuted for burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish Consulate. But 24 years ago, Keir Starmer acted for a woman prosecuted for desecrating a US flag ? and won.l
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People Before Profit Alliance

category national | bin tax / household tax / water tax | opinion/analysis author Friday March 04, 2016 13:37author by Paddy Hackett Report this post to the editors

Total abolition of water charges...



The People Before Profit Alliance seeks the total abolition of water charges. To fund the provision of clean and safe water it supports the cost of this service being imposed on the capitalist class and sections of the middle class. The logic behind the position means that the total cost of all state spending should be, largely speaking, imposed on the capitalist class and sections of the middle class too.

Under these conditions the capitalist class would be left with no alternative but to withdraw its assets from the Irish economy. This would lead to the effective disappearance of the Irish economy. Consequently the income of the working class would collapse while unemployment would become widespread. Apocalyptic conditions would prevail.

Neither can the leadership of the right2water campaign support any abolition of water charges made by a future capitalist government. This is because it's abolition will result in the charge being largely imposed in a veiled form on the working and lower middle class (under general taxation or whatever). Should such support be forthcoming from the right2water leadership it will clearly expose its reactionary character. The abolition, suspension or modification of the water charges by a bourgeois government cannot be justifiably claimed to be a victory for the leadership of the Right2Water campaign.

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