Bernie Sanders Blasts 'the Musks and the Zuckerbergs' at Cork Trade Union Meeting

Bernie Sanders blasts 'the Musks and the Zuckerbergs' at Cork trade union meeting

Firebrand US senator takes aim at 'oligarchs' during Cork visit which will also include pilgrimage to honour Mother Jones

Bernie Sanders urges people in Ireland to unite to stop the rise of oligarchy

The 83-year-old Vermont senator used an address at the Robert Tressell Festival at Liberty Hall in Dublin to criticise what he characterised as a new generation of billionaires who do not believe in government or democracy

FLASHBACK: How an Adoring Media Aided Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign

FLASHBACK: How an Adoring Media Aided Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign Ten years ago this week, Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders formally announced his first bid for the White House. It was the most serious left-wing campaign since Henry Wallace in the late 1940s, with a platform that included massive new spending, oppressively higher taxes, and a crippling $18 trillion in new debt. By any definition, it was an extremist agenda. Yet while…