#Occupyimf March on the IMF delegation!

The IMF-EU-ECB ‘Troika’ are back in Ireland on October 15th. Their austerity policies are causing immense suffering and are making the economic crisis worse, meanwhile bondholders and the superwealthy are getting off scot-free. This time they are demanding we sell €5 Billion worth of state assets. We are selling the family silver to pay for Zombie banks.

Labour Party minister Brendan Howlin has declared that he wants all departments to come to him with suggestions for up to 20% cuts across the board. This is over 10 Billion euro worth of austerity on top of the 3.6 Billion in cuts already set aside for us in the December budget.

In the past year we have suffered the closure of so many hospitals, the sacking of special needs teachers, welfare cuts, wage cuts.

The promises from this government and the last that we would soon see an export led recovery are nothing but fanciful dreams.

The Enough Campaign is supported by People Before Profit Alliance TD’s Richard Boyd Barrett and Joan Collins, Unite Trade Union, Waterford Trades Council, Spectacle of Defiance, Socialist Workers Party, People’s Movement, Afri and a number of Independent TDs. Speakers on the day included Special Needs parents, bus cuts campaigners, trade unionists, community activists, representative of Rachel Peavoy Campaign and more.

There were two events on July the 6th in Dublin that gave a foretaste of things to come in this country.

The loan sharks of the International Monetary Fund are back from the 6th to the 16th of July to make sure Labour and Fine Gael continue to jump through hoops and make the population pay for the irresponsible actions of European Banks.

In Greece the IMF EU driven austerity has produced an amazing level of worker's resistance with a a 48 hour General Strike this week.

In Spain 800,000 took to the streets demanding real democracy.