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Joe Higgins Warns Enda Kenny – Mass Boycott of New Household Tax in 2012

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKdjUMB1JGA&feature=player_embedded

Enda Kenny, the Mayo Deputy, the New Captain Boycott?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

A flavour of Irish Resistance in Mayo during the Nineteenth Century : Read the rest of this entry »

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Dec 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Household Tax 2012, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland), United Left Alliance, Water Charges

A Nest of Fine Gael Labour Highly Paid Neo Liberals

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Pay and Conditions Slashed for Little People – Government Handlers on Big Money

News : http://feeds.examiner.ie/~r/ietopstories/~3/GgYih_Sxfgo/

A little more detail from a Cedar Lounge Discussion :

Must admit I had never heard of Mark Garrett before following these comments – he gets a significant mention here :

https://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/time-for-a-technocratic-government-in-ireland/ Read the rest of this entry »

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Dec 10, 2011 at 10:48 am

Posted in Double Standards, Fine Gael, Labour Party (Ireland), Low Pay

Budget 2012 – Round-Up of the Real Left Response – “Death By a Thousand Cuts”

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Joe Higgins Speaking in the Dáil :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ggu-mbY-xxI

The Spectacle of Defiance Inspires on the Streets of Dublin -“Arise Ye Risen People” :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58wZmRadHwk&feature=share

Death By a Thousand Cuts – Joan Collins Speaks :

http://joan-collins.org/2011/12/06/budget-2012-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/

The Dublin West Labour TD, Patrick Nulty, winner of the October 27 by-election, voted against the budget, managing to stay within his organisation’s parliamentary party a mere 6 weeks – prompting me to observe on the Cedar Lounge Blog : Read the rest of this entry »

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Dec 7, 2011 at 7:11 pm

Posted in European Union, Fianna Fáil, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland), Socialist Party, United Left Alliance

Remember in December “When Labour Wrestles With Its Conscience, Labour Always Wins”

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An interesting article from the Irish Examiner : http://feeds.examiner.ie/~r/ietopstories/~3/Zg1NinWii-8/

The author of that cruel jibe was ex Fianna Fail taoiseach Sean Lemass – history repeats itself first as tragedy..

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Nov 22, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Posted in Black Humour, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland)

Watch “Joe Higgins TD questions the Tanaiste on the illegal detention of Flotilla activists” on YouTube

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Nov 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm

Posted in Gaza, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland), Palestine, Socialist Party, United Left Alliance

Joe Higgins. SP/ULA, questions Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, Labour Party Leader, Purpose of His Party?

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Here is a video well worth watching :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yJi-K6nYS_g

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Nov 3, 2011 at 10:20 pm

Posted in Dublin West By-Election, Fianna Fáil, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland), Socialist Party, United Left Alliance

The Billion Dollar Anglo Irish Bond – Cedar Lounge Revolution – and the Greece Referendum

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http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-billion-dollar-anglo-bond/

and a cartoon which says it all :

More, from the NAMA Winelake :

http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/black-wednesday-imf-dependent-4-6m-population-country-with-debtgdp-over-100-and-rising-today-pays-usd-1bn-unsecured-unguaranteed-debt-of-completely-bust-bank/

Dave Allen has the last word :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5y_gE1Rb1Y

 

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Nov 2, 2011 at 3:44 pm

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Greece, Humour, International Political Analysis, Labour Party (Ireland), People Before Profit, Referendums, Tugging the Forelock, United Left Alliance

Elections Over – Fianna Fáil Still Toxic, A Government Starting to Slide

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A Fianna Fáil Resurrection in Dublin West

– or A Fine Gael  Gift?

Ed Moloney in his always stimulating Broken Elbow Blog concentrates on the Sinn Féin performance and suggests in passing:

Fianna Fail did what no-one expected and put on a convincing impression of Lazarus. The FF result in the West Dublin by-election, the creditable performance of Sean Gallagher, the ersatz Fianna Failer – despite the late-breaking brown envelope scandal.

http://thebrokenelbow.com/2011/10/31/why-provo-lies-about-the-past-are-so-dumb/#comments

I disagreed, and posted a an explanatory reply.  This article expands on the topic.

The Fianna Fáil Dublin West by-election result must be analysed in tandem with the dire Fine Gael result achieved by a very weak candidate, Eithne Loftus.

http://www.electionsireland.org/changes.cfm?election=2011B&cons=112

http://www.rte.ie/news/vote2011/dublin-west.html Read the rest of this entry »

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Nov 1, 2011 at 11:27 pm

Posted in Dublin West By-Election, Fianna Fáil, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Green Party, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland), October 27 2011, Opinion Polls, Referendums, Sinn Féin, Socialist Party, United Left Alliance

Helena Sheehan Leaves the Labour Party

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Here is a very welcome statement from Helena Sheehan (copied from her facebook page).

I do not however agree with supporting Michael D Higgins in the Presidential Race – in other blogs I have argued that the radical left should try to convert the presidential election into a proxy referendum on ECB / IMF Reverse Robin Hood “stealing from the poor, giving to the rich” menu.

http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/meanwhile-back-at-the-presidential-election-campaign/

More recently Robert Ballagh has promoted a similar strategy, but has made it clear he will not himself be a candidate :

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/robert-ballagh-rules-out-running-for-president-after-talks-2830674.html

Time to leave the Labour Party

by Helena Sheehan on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 at 14:57

It is time to draw a line under my 30 year membership of the Labour Party. It is past time actually, as I have not been active at branch or constituency level for the past 15 years. There were many reasons for this, including the demands of my academic job. I did remain active politically, but not in a way that was so focused on the Labour Party or even electoral politics. I recognise the importance of electoral politics, but it has never been the area in which I felt I had a particular contribution to make. During the years of Labour Left, of which I was a founding member, we tried to create a deeper political intellectual culture in the Labour Party. Once this ended, I didn’t see so much of a role for myself. Nevertheless, I remained. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jul 27, 2011 at 8:34 pm

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland), United Left Alliance

ULA: What kind of party do we need? 4

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ULA: What kind of party do we need? 4

Guest post

1. Publish and be damned.

At a People Before Profit Alliance Activists Meeting in May Kieran Allen of the SWP responded to Brendan Young’s call for a ULA publication – not a PBPA publication – by firmly ruling it out. His argument was that to have a publication you need to have agreement on what to say in it and the ULA was a diverse formation and therefore was not in a position to produce a publication. If that were the only obstacle it would be easily overcome by acknowledging that the publication should, in any case, carry debate within the overall context of the agreed message.

On this site Mark P of the Socialist Party took issue with Brendan in response to his article ‘United Left Alliance “A Work in Progress” -Steps Towards a New Party’:

https://tomasoflatharta.com/2011/05/20/united-left-alliance-a-work-in-progress-steps-towards-a-new-party/#more-404

Brendan had asserted that “the production of an independent publication for the ULA – to give expression to our views and an independent identity to the organisation – remains an argument to be won”. Mark P did not agree and commented: Read the rest of this entry »

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Jun 24, 2011 at 9:54 am

Posted in Britain, Fianna Fáil, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Labour Party (Ireland), People Before Profit, Scotland, Sinn Féin, Six County Elections 2011, Six County State, Socialist Party, Trade Unions, United Left Alliance

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