Position
The Workers' Party of Ireland in its heyday during the 1980s was also a frequent target of satire and investigation over its funding methods which resulted in John Mulcahy receiving threats from the Official IRA. It has been highly critical of the Corrib gas pipeline and supports the Shell to Sea and Pobal Chill Chomáin campaigns against the laying of the pipeline. It published a supplementary summary and commentary on the Goldstone Report on the siege of Gaza and attacked the actions of the Israeli Government over the illegal use of Irish passports in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh and the attack on the Gaza aid flotilla. The magazine was highly critical of the 2007-2011 Fianna Fáil-Green Party coalition. It called for the 2011 Irish budget to be defeated and pointed out that the money loaned as part of the EU stability fund would come at the cost of a crippling rate of interest
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