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Kill the Finance Bill – Burn the Bondholders!
See discussion here :
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/so-what-happens-next/
Line of Action :
Kill the Finance Bill
Dissolve the Dáil and announce a new General Election date before March 11
The Green Party/Fianna Fáil policy – apparently supported by Fine Gael – of passing the Finance bill this week should be rejected out of hand.
Call the bluff of the right-wing – do not tolerate hypocrites pretending to oppose the government, but in fact hoping the austerity package is passed – and after a General Election Fine Gael and their Labour coalition colleagues will say they are in “a straitjacket”, their “hands are tied”, and so on.
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2011 General Election – the United Left Alliance Prepares
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.
Donegal South-West By-Election – isolated example or pointer to the future?
I agree with Paddy Healy’s analysis
http://paddyhealy.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/analysis-of-donegal-sw-by-election/#respond
– it now appears that Donegal may not be an isolated regional example, following publication of the most recent Red C Poll placing Fianna Fáil in fourth place behind Fine Gael, Labour, and Sinn Féin.
This suggests many supporters / voters of the Labour Party and Sinn Féin may be open to the argument of rivals who are further left – the United Left Alliance – that coalition with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael should be ruled out in principle.
Pearse Doherty TD Sinn Féin – A Lifer?
Full marks to the Socialist Party irritant Mark P for winkling out important information –
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This came to our notice via a Cedar Lounge Revolution discussion :
“Pearse Doherty was unusually up front in expounding SF’s pro-life position on abortion:
Sinn Féin – Senator Pearse Doherty has given a written personal commitment to oppose any legislation that would make abortion available in Ireland and supports a law to protect the human embryo from deliberate destruction”
http://prolifecampaign.ie/?page_id=520
Note also the statement by independent left Thomas Pringle. Read the rest of this entry »
Tomás Ó Flatharta 