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BREAKING: Over 250 organizations, including DSA, Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB Belgique), Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile), and Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem-Teto (@MTST) demand Cuba's immediate removal from the US “state-sponsor of terrorism” list.

A joint NERI-SIPTU paper finds productivity in the Irish indigenous sector compares poorly with our peer group in Europe. In most market sectors Irish productivity is at the bottom of the table. This has serious implications for enterprise policy. tinyurl.com/7wx94685

Americans should have the entire week off for the 4th this year as a kind of “going out of business” blow-out

The French New Popular Front has a practical, dyamic and progressive economic programme for France: lift low wages, invest in the productive economy and tax wealth. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Jane McAlevey is leaving us - thankfully, she also left us a roadmap newyorker.com/news/persons-o…

The New Popular Front takes the lead in exit polls. Left unity wins out over the far right. theguardian.com/world/live/202…

With France’s Popular Front set to win, take a look at the exciting policy platform they stood on: ✅Significant minimum wage increase ✅Price freeze essential goods ✅Solidarity tax on wealth ✅Excess profits tax ✅Major public housing investment ✅Green re-industrialisation

NERI blog 'Ireland is a domestic productivity laggard, and we're all paying the price' - associated with a Report by Chris Smart & Michael Taft Michael Taft on research on domestic productivity - nerinstitute.net/blog/ireland-d… #Productivity

I’ve a piece in Irish Times Opinion today arguing that a time when public services are stretched, infrastructure is creaking and average incomes are stagnating, proposals to cut the tax paid by the children of wealthy families represents a strange set of priorities.

This November presents two options: A democracy or a dictatorship. Choose wisely.

Cutting inheritance tax, as the Government appears to be planning, could mean the wealthiest households getting a €21,000 tax cut. Instead of cutting it, progressives should argue for increasing inheritance tax per the Commission on Taxation’s proposals: tinyurl.com/y3akfur5

Cutting inheritance tax, as the Government appears to be planning, could mean the wealthiest households getting a €21,000 tax cut. Instead of cutting it, progressives should argue for increasing inheritance tax per the Commission on Taxation’s proposals. tinyurl.com/y3akfur5

Grim statistic: in 2022 nearly 15% of Irish workers could not afford a one week holiday away from home; or 377,000 workers. rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Here are the most popular policies in swing states (AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA and WI), according to a new poll from Bernie Sanders/Data for Progress

Up to May 2024, there were 629 ‘incorporations’ (start-ups) compared to 155 buisness closures in the hospitality sector – a ratio of 4 new businesses for every closure. So much for the story that moving towards the Living Wage is killing off hospitality tinyurl.com/4bxwt3bf

You can't accuse American politics of being boring! Buy now while stocks still last. x.com/jonfavs/status…

The next NERI seminar takes place on 9 Oct at 15:30 in Irish Congress (ICTU) Rory O'Farrell Rory O'Farrell 🧐📈 TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath Susanne Rogers Social Justice Ireland & Michael Taft Michael Taft SIPTU will give their analysis of #Budget2025 Details - nerinstitute.net/events/2024/bu…

Cutting taxes, increasing spending, relying on transitory tax revenue to balance the books. Feels like 2006 all over again. Progressives need an alternative fiscal framework – and show that the public finances are not safe with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. tinyurl.com/yckcmfkn

Cutting taxes, increasing spending, relying on transitory tax revenue to balance the books. Feels like 2006 all over again. Progressives need an alternative fiscal framework – and show that the public finances are not safe with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael: tinyurl.com/yckcmfkn