With no elections around the corner, the government has gifted Ireland a miserly budget this year. For many working families this will be the toughest Christmases since the peak of the 2008 crisis.
Energy bills are up €500–700 more on average per year since 2021, compounded by 10-12 percent of households in Ireland experiencing food insecurity – double the pre-pandemic rate. Real wages have remained stagnant while corporate profits have reached record highs.
This barbarity is not because they left the drafting of the budget to Ebenezer Scrooge. It is the logic of capitalism reaching its natural conclusions. The coalition are in no position to fix anything as they sold the economy to American and European imperialism long ago. They sell the lives of ordinary working people down the river so the landlords and billionaires they represent make record profits.
These attacks are naturally adding fuel to the fire of working class anger. And this is only the beginning. With economic crisis on the horizon more attacks will follow. This Christmas will be hard, but next Christmas will be harder. Working people can only take so much of this before the straw breaks the camel’s back.
