Today CATU members and Palestine solidarity organisations, including Dublin for Gaza and the IPSC have occupied AXA’s European HQ in Dublin in opposition to AXA’s profiting from Israeli occupation and…

March 31st, 2023 Darragh O’Brien, Minister for Housing We are the Community Action Tenants Union Ireland (CATU), a community and tenants union representing 2000 tenants and other working class people…

On the 7th of March 2023, the 26 county government decided to lift the winter eviction ban heaping fear and insecurity on thousands of people. We, as a Community and…

It is a pretty reasonable statement to make in the context of a housingshortage, but we need to discuss what is wrong with it. I have been involved in tenant…

We start this week with the exciting news that CATU are HIRING! On this occasion, we’re looking for a Regional Organiser for Ulster to build upon the excellent foundations laid by our…

We start this week in Belfast, where members are gearing up for this weekend’s Cost of Living protest, while also engaged in supporting a fellow member in taking on our old…

CATU News – Week 37, 2022. Firstly this week, a reminder of the two upcoming Cost of Living protests – in Dublin on September 24th and Belfast on October 1st.…

… not at anyone but just to make a visual impact”: A history of the Dún Laoghaire Housing Action Group, by Fiadh Tubridy and Gregor Kerr

Government housing policy is the cause of the housing crisis. Homelessness, waiting-lists andextortionate private rent levels are the symptoms of policy designed to benefit speculators,landlords, hedge funds: the business class.…

(An edited version of this article was previously published in GCN Magazine. You can find that version here). Gay or straight, all landlords should be abolished. Queer and trans people…

This statement was written by CATU members in Coolock in reference to the recent rezoning and sell-on of the Chivers site in the area. You can read more about that…

Our power to influence decisions on homes is under threat because of a dodgy trade deal: CETA Minister Darragh O’Brien’s (FF) long awaited Housing For All strategy promises affordability and…

This blog post is written by the CATU Campaigns Group, which is campaigning against CETA – the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. The below lies out the case for…

In this post, members of CATU Mountjoy-Dorset Street reflect on an illegal eviction that was stopped on the 11th of April 2021, the day before the eviction ban lifted. On…

In this blog, union members report on how CATU Phibsboro-Glasnevin and CATU Cabra have been exploring novel forms of community organising during lockdown as part of a battle to stop…

It’s a very exciting time to be a CATU member! In the last two weeks our local group’s AGM motions were sent out, debated via last week’s hustings and are…

Local elections have finished and there are a whole host of exciting motions and positions to be debated and voted on within your community and tenants’ union!There will be debates…

The first AGM of CATU Ireland where union national leadership, policies, campaigns, and more will be decided for the upcoming year. 2020 has been a year of massive upheaval in…

A statement by members of Brazilian Left Front and CATU

Housing, capitalism, and why it’s time to unionise by Aaron Downey (Training and Education Officer) Housing is a commodity under capitalism; the current economic system where most industry (and property)…

The political background to housing and community action in Ireland by Aaron Downey (Training and Education Officer) This is adapted from a talk given as part of a series of…

🏠 CATU has been busy, between building new committees, engaging in membership defense, and growing across the island of Ireland. ✊ Our membership is fast approaching the 600 members mark.…

Despite the pandemic and the gloomy weather, this summer has turned out to be a busy one for CATU Ireland. Our four local committees/groups in Dublin: Mountjoy-Dorset, Phibsboro-Glasnevin, Crumlin-Drimnagh &…

UPDATE – Monday July 20, 2020 11amWe are pleased to say that the CATU members at Galloping Green have received notice that they can stay until July 31st as requested…

CATU Ireland has been very busy since Covid-19 hit the Island despite all the disruption to our normal ways of organising.We have doubled our membership in the past 2 months!…

Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) was set up in October 2019 to empower us to fight for decent homes and a good quality of life for all in our communities.…

We are very excited to be officially launching our first CATU local group in Mountjoy & Dorset St this coming Saturday (February 29th) in the Dublin Adult Learning Centre at…

Great day on Tuesday February 18th, where 25 people stood together with our 4 members, tenants in Rutland Place North, who are being threatened with eviction by a Vulture fund.…

Stop the Vulture Eviction! When: Tuesday 18th of February, 12pm Where: Rutland Place North, Dublin 1CATU members, 4 tenants are facing eviction on Tuesday the 18th of February. We are…

Election Day on the doors Great group on the doors around Rutland place, North Circular Road and Richmond in Dublin 1 on Election Day. We are building towards the launch…

Over 20 members came to our local Dorset St/Mountjoy planning meeting in A4 Sounds in Dublin. We couldn’t even fit everyone in the picture! We are launching the local group…