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 how CETA might impact housing policy in the country as well as other social concerns. How will CETA empower Canadian …
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 Sunday 11th April 2021, one of our neighbours on St Joseph’s Place just off Dorset St was subjected to a …
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 two co-living developments in the area. Reports Of Co-Living’s Death Greatly Exaggerated When the government raised the white flag on …
In this article Edel answers the question: ‘what is mutual aid?’ She explains how people have worked together in many different contexts to meet needs in their communities both in the past, and under the current pandemic. In this she makes a case that our movements and organisations must always …
This is the first in a new series of member-led writing for the CATU blog. In this, Enda McHugh (@MchughEnda) covers some of the history of public housing in Ireland, and why it should be supported as an alternative to the private market. Pick up a newspaper published in Ireland …
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) is owned by private individuals, and goods are produced for the market. By commodity I mean something which is produced …
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 educational sessions organised by Greater Manchester Housing Action. CATU Ireland was properly launched around a year ago, with our first …
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 with no rent arrears #PowerintheUnion STATEMENT from the CATU members & tenants at Galloping Green who CATU members supported with …
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 background here. CATU is building a branch in the Coolock-Artane-Darndale area. If you live in any of those areas and …
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 supply above all else, so why is the government also trying to push through the EU Trade Agreement, CETA, which …
