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Brian Martin, Éamonn Cowen, Mícheál Kenny, Enda Gilmore – Who Cares?

If the new government is a Fine Gael-Labour Coalition after the imminent 2011 General Election, Kenny-Gilmore will quickly be just as unpopular as Cowen-Gormley today –

since such a government will pursue the same policies as the outgoing discredited Greena Fáil coalition.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mícheál Martin is voting no confidence in his leader the Taoiseach Brian Cowen next Tuesday –

enjoy this video instead of going through the entrails :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2Vr7lb-D4

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Jan 16, 2011 at 8:49 pm

Posted in Fianna Fáil, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Green Party, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland)

Lunch Discussion with Susan George: ‘Global Crises Coming Home’ – Tues 18th Jan 1pm, Central Hotel, Dublin

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Lunch Discussion with Susan George: ‘Global Crises Coming Home’ – Tues 18th Jan 1pm, Central Hotel, Dublin

More Information on the event Here :

http://www.irishleftreview.org/2011/01/13/lunch-discussion-susan-george-global-crises-coming-home-tues-18th-jan-1pm-central-hotel-dublin/

More About Susan here :

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Jan 13, 2011 at 7:39 pm

Posted in European Union, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Ireland

UNITE Union Calls for a Left Vote in the Irish General Election

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Statement for immediate release

Sunday, January 9th 2011

UNITE CALLS ON MEMBERS TO VOTE LEFT

The UNITE trade union, the second largest union in the Republic of Ireland has called on all working people to vote for a left wing government in the general election likely to be held in March.

“Workers should use their vote in the upcoming general election to bring about a left-wing government for the first time in the history of the state,” said Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary of Unite the union.

UNITE is an affiliate member of the Labour Party, and is encouraging the party to look left for coalition partners rather than to the old order of Fine Gael.

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Jan 12, 2011 at 8:18 am

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), General Election 2011, Ireland, Trade Unions, UNITE

2011 General Election – the United Left Alliance Prepares

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The United Left Alliance held a supporters’ meeting on Monday January 10 at 7pm in Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street.

Tomás Ó Flathartha reports.

Arriving on time – for a change – this reporter came across a few grumblers wondering why there was such an early start – these events in Dublin usually start about 8pm.

As usual most punters arrived late, but the room filled up quickly – maybe 110 – 130 people attended, though many left before the official end shortly after 9pm – by that time there were around 60-65 in the room.

It seemed many people had read Brendan Young’s Paper

Building the ULA:

reflections on the past and proposals for the future

(published on this blog and the Irish Left Review) and support for the practical proposals was widespread.

https://tomasoflatharta.com/2011/01/07/building-the-ula-reflections-on-the-past-and-proposals-for-the-future/

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Jan 11, 2011 at 2:17 am

Posted in Abortion, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Ireland, Sinn Féin, United Left Alliance

The Irish crisis: a complete failure for neo-liberalism

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Eric Toussaint, president of CADTM Belgium (Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt, http://www.cadtm.org ) has written a useful analysis of the financial crisis in Ireland :

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_article&id_article=1968

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Jan 9, 2011 at 3:05 pm

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Ireland

Building the United Left Alliance: reflections on the past and proposals for the future

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Building the ULA:

reflections on the past and proposals for the future.

Brendan Young. People Before Profit and the Campaign for an Independent Left.

It is just over a month since the United Left Alliance was launched and the paucity of organised resistance to the deepening economic crisis has made the alternative offered by the ULA all the more urgent. So the formation of the ULA is very welcome. Also welcome is the public commitment to the ULA by People Before Profit, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers’ Party and the Tipperary Unemployed and Workers’ Action Group. Such co-operation amongst the Irish left is a very big step forward and every effort should be made to ensure that it is a success, up to and after the coming election.

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Jan 7, 2011 at 8:24 pm

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), General Election 2011, Ireland, People Before Profit, Socialist Party, United Left Alliance