The third part of the piece by Sráid Marx on the anti-water charges movement
An old military maxim is that no battle plan survives engagement with the enemy. And so it proved when the Government thought it could impose water charges on a population ground down by austerity. Unfortunately for them a sizeable section of the Irish working class decided it had had enough and that this was one bite of austerity that wouldn’t be taken.
As I said in a previous post, it began to appear in the last few months that this was a battle the Government was losing. The announcement of further drastic changes to the Government’s plans this past week suggests that this is even truer now.
The charge that was provisionally priced at €176 in July is now €60 and is €160 for households with two or more adults – if the charge is paid and an absurdly name conservation rebate of €100 is claimed. The cap on…
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