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“Vote Left” Transfer Pact in June 2024 Irish Elections? – A Positive People Before Profit Initiative
People Before Profit is proposing a “Vote Left” transfer pact to operate in the June 2024 Local and European Elections, 26 Counties
Presenting this positive initiative Paul Murphy TD said
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PBP Vote Left Transfer Pact Proposal
A useful detailed discussion is taking place on the Cedar Lounge Revolution Blog
(Link : The Cedar Lounge Revolution)
A correspondent, IrishElectionLiterature, opened the discussion on a positive note :
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Vote left, Transfer left, Then What?
In the article below, important points from the discussion are highlighted.
This is a serious matter, especially in a context where it is necessary to confront and defeat the extreme racist right.
Colm Breathnach offers a very good template :
Just a personal thing, but here’s my own general set of rules when it comes to voting where a Proportional Representation system is in operation (obviously First Pat The Post system is much more challenging in terms of decisions):
- Start with the furthest left and keep voting until you reach the border of what you consider to be the left (for me, that’s social democratic or social liberal parties). Of course that border can shift – the Irish Greens were once inside my border of “left”, now they are definitely outside.
- Exclude candidates who consistently hold reactionary positions regardless of their ostensible politics – favour genocide, homophobic etc etc. So the Daly’s of the world don’t feature or let’s say a centre left candidate who justified Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
- Adjust to take account of specific concerns which one might deem important for progress to radical transformation of society. So for example you may alter your ranking to the take into account the candidates position on climate change or Irish unity etc.
Colm continues :
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May 6, 2024 at 4:04 pm
Posted in 26 County State (Ireland), Anti War Movements, Bríd Smith TD, Crimea, Direct Provision - Irish Gombeen State Racism, Dublin Governments, Dublin’s racist mobs hit the city centre, 23.11.23, FFFGGG Coalition, Fortress Europe, Genocide, Holly Cairns TD (Cork South West), Human Rights, Ireland, Ireland - Emigration and Immigration, Irish General Election February 8 2020, Labour Party (Ireland), Left Unity, Migration in Europe, Party of the European Left, Paul Murphy TD Dublin South-West, People Before Profit, Racism, Racism, Racket Hall Roscrea Racism January 2024, Richard Boyd-Barrett TD (Dún Laoghaire), RISE, Russia, Show Racism the Red Card, Sinn Féin, Six County State, Social Democrats (Ireland), Stormont, Lord Carson’s Tomb, Ukraine, War
Tagged with european-and-local-elections-june-7-2024, extreme-right, Ireland, labour-party, news, Northern Ireland, Palestine, People Before Profit, politics, Racism, Sinn Féin, social-democrats, Ukraine, vote-left-transfer-pact
“Ireland could and should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel” – Maeve O’Rourke (Galway Human Rights lecturer) plus several members of the Irish Oireachtas (Houses of Parliament)
“Ireland must make decisions for itself – as a state party to the Genocide Convention, with a responsibility to act to protect humanity” – Maeve O’Rourke
Dr Maeve O’Rourke is a lecturer in Human Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway
Left wing members of the Dublin Dáil and Seanad (Irish parliamentary Institutions) are supporting South Africa’s case against Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Direct Comparison Between Russia and Israel :
Matt Carthy TD, Sinn Féin, made a direct comparison between Israeli genocide in Gaza and Russian genocide in Ukraine :
Some say “But” when presented with the Ukraine-Gaza-Genocide comparison.
The writer Fred Leplat gives us a very clear answer :
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Jan 11, 2024 at 7:13 pm
Posted in Anti War Movements, Anti-Capitalist Resistance (Britain), Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), Dublin Governments, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF), European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, Fortress Europe, Fred Leplat, Gary Gannon TD (Dublin Central), Social Democrats, Genocide, Holly Cairns TD (Cork South West), Human Rights, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Israel, Israel Assault on Gaza, October 2023, Ivana Bacik TD, Labour Party Leader, Labour Party (Ireland), Left Wing Organisations, Matt Carthy TD (Cavan-Monaghan), People Before Profit, Racism, Richard Boyd-Barrett TD (Dún Laoghaire), Sinn Féin, Social Democrats (Ireland), South Africa, The Irish Times, Ukraine, Ukraine Russia War 2022, War, Wikileaks
Tagged with Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine
Russia’s imperialist genocidal and ethnic-cleansing invasion – Appeasing Putin’s aggression will not bring peace – Opposite Messages : Sinn Féin and the Labour Party Versus People Before Profit
On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, February 24 2023, 12 elected left-wing Oireachtas members had a letter published in one of Ireland’s main daily papers, the Irish Times. A number of correspondents rejected the contents of this letter.
On the same day two party leaders, Sinn Féin President MaryLou McDonald and Ivana Bacik of the Labour Party brought an opposite message to thousands of protesters in Dublin’s O’Connell Street.
Both Bacik and McDonald clearly backed occupied Ukraine against the Russian imperialist and ethnic-cleansing invader.
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Sinn Féin President MaryLou McDonald
Written by tomasoflatharta
Feb 25, 2023 at 7:57 pm
Posted in Anti War Movements, Bríd Smith TD, Dublin Governments, Eastern Europe, European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, FFFGGG Coalition, Gino Kenny TD, History of Ireland, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Irish General Election February 8 2020, Irish Left With Ukraine, Ivana Bacik TD, Labour Party Leader, Labour Party (Ireland), Left Evasionism, LeftEast, Migration in Europe, NATO, Neutrality, Non-Alignment, Paul Murphy TD Dublin South-West, People Before Profit, Revolutionary History, Richard Boyd-Barrett TD (Dún Laoghaire), The Irish Times, Ukraine, Ukraine : Women Raped by Russian Invaders, Westplaining
Solidarity With Palestine, Solidarity With Ukraine – Sotsialniy Rukh (Ukraine) Compared With People Before Profit (Ireland)
Sotsialniy Rukh Statement on Palestine and Ukraine (in English and Ukrainian)
📣 November 29 since 1978 has been celebrated as the Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. For 44 years, the world officially talks about the Palestinian tragedy that has no end.
This day reminds us of Palestine’s ongoing struggle for life and freedom. Despite condemnation of Israel’s policy, which leading human rights organizations say fits the crime of apartheid under the Roman Statute, the de facto Palestinians and Palestinians still have neither protection nor independence. Their homes are being taken, cities bombed, and their lives are totally in vain.
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Dec 2, 2022 at 2:42 pm
Posted in 1921 Treaty Partitioning Ireland, Anti War Movements, “A Carnival of Reaction” - James Connolly’s Warning About the Partition of Ireland, Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), Campism, Crimea, Crimean Tatars, Desmond Tutu, Double Standards, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF), European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, European Union, Fortress Europe, History of Ireland, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Irish Left With Ukraine, Left Evasionism, Left Wing Opponents of Neoliberalism, Left Wing Organisations, Leon Trotsky, NATO, Neutrality, Non-Alignment, Paul Murphy TD Dublin South-West, People Before Profit, Revolutionary History, Richard Boyd-Barrett TD (Dún Laoghaire), Russia, Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), South Africa, Soviet Union (USSR), Trotskyism, Ukraine, Ukraine : Women Raped by Russian Invaders, Ukraine Russia War 2022, Ursula Von Der Leyen (EU Commission President), War, Westplaining