There have been many warnings to the Irish public about the proposal to sell off public forests, and to date a petition to save our forests has been signed by over 30,000 people. Just recently, People Before Profit councilor Melissa Halpin successfully passed a motion to safeguard our forests at a meeting of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.

While the DUP and Sinn Féin publicly bicker on the fine points of devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont, behind the scenes both parties agree that working people must pay for the economic crisis, writes Sean McVeigh

A new book, slated for publication in January, examines the effects of so-called Public Private Partnerships on public services and infrastructure. The author of Global Auction of Public Assets is Dexter Whitfield

Just as market solutions have been exposed around the world as lacking any credibility, the Executive at Stormont has been busy drawing up legislation that threatens to unleash a new wave of privatisation across the North