Archive for the ‘Fianna Fáil’ Category
“Be Patient and Never Give up the Struggle” An interview with Tommy McKearney
International Viewpoint has published a stimulating interview with Tommy McKearney,
http://www.tommymckearney.com/Site/Blog/Blog.html
Tommy McKearney - A Patient Revolutionary Socialist
We hope soon to carry a review of Tommy’s recently published book
Goodbye Armalite, Hello Ballot Box?
Tommy welcomes the United Left Alliance Project :
Q: In late 2010 the United Left Alliance came together to contest the February 2011 general elections in Ireland, winning five seats. What is you assessment of the ULA?
TM: The ULA is a positive and progressive development. The fact that organizations of the left have come together at any time is good and that these groups are doing so at this time of capitalist crisis is heartening and encouraging. The ULA has also given some needed visibility to the left through its articulate and high-profile spokespersons such as Richard Boyd Barrett and Joe Higgins.
Asked about Ed Moloney’s “Voices From the Grave” and the British state attack on the Boston College Belfast Project, Tommy says : Read the rest of this entry »
United Left Alliance TD’s, part of the Dáil Technical Group – Irish Times Review
For a change, the Irish Times report is fair to the left-wing outsiders.
Debate occurred on this site after the February 25 2011 General Election on whether Luke “Ming” Flanagan could be grouped within the left – we presume that argument is over now. Ming has sided with the United Left Alliance comrades on a variety of key issues since his election in Roscommon-South Leitrim – is the west awake for the left?
The article is discussed on the Cedar Lounge Revolution Site :
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/speaking-about-the-independents-of-the-left/
Ming Flanagan gets this mention: we are told the Independent TD for Roscommon-South Leitrim who has in the past proudly advertised his fondness for the odd cannabis joint
orbits in this area, but is less clearly explicitly left-wing and therefore perhaps more sensibly regarded as being a sometime fellow traveller on some but not all issues.
United Left Alliance Budget Statement
United Left Alliance
Budget Statement December 2011
PDF edition here: http://www.peoplebeforeprofit.ie/files/ULA%20Budget%20Statement%20December%202011.pdf
Austerity Is Not Working: Tax The Rich, Invest In Jobs
Next weeks budget will see further drastic cuts in the living standards of workers, the unemployed and the poor. Since the onset of the crisis in 2008 government policy has focused on bailing out banks and speculators and making the working class pick up the bill. Hardly a cent has been taken from those who have the real wealth in society. The effect of this policy has been lengthening dole queues and impoverishment with rising inequality in a society that was already deeply unequal. The wealth of the super-rich has increased throughout the crises. Read the rest of this entry »
Nobody is denying US torpedoed plan to save the Irish State €20bn — Only Gene Kerrigan is asking
We are paying Gene Kerrigan the compliment of reproducing his entire article in today’s Sunday Independent (June 19 2011).
We covered this ground during the recent general election campaign.
https://tomasoflatharta.com/2011/02/05/make-a-bonfire-of-irish-banking-vanities/
No apologies for the action replay.
We also recommend the following articles from Vanity Fair and the British Guardian – very relevant to Gene’s article.
Let us hope the United Left Alliance TD’s run with this ball
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103
We’re shamed by conspiracy of silence
Nobody is denying US torpedoed plan to save the State €20bn — but no one’s asking either, writes Gene Kerrigan Read the rest of this entry »
Tomás Ó Flatharta 