Tomás Ó Flatharta

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Ireland: What’s left after the ULA? | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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Henry Silke on the decline of the ULA.

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May 1, 2013 at 8:53 am

Posted in Bureaucratically Deformed Trotskyist Parties, Clare Daly TD, Dublin Governments, Internal Democracy, Ireland, Left Unity, Left Wing Organisations, May Day, Séamus Healy TD, South Tipperary Unemployed and Workers Action Group, United Left, United Left Alliance

The Socialist Party leaves the United Left Alliance

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Socialist Party leaves the ULA

by Henry Silke

Last Saturday the Socialist Party (CWI) posted an article on their website announcing the end their membership of the United Left Alliance. This was one of the least surprising political events of the Irish left as the Socialist Party had been steadily moving away from the alliance for over a year.

The SP have given two reasons for leaving the alliance firstly it’s unhappiness with ex Socialist Party TD Clare Daly’s continued political relationship with Mick Wallace, a left leaning populist who became embroiled in a tax evasion scandal. Clare Daly had been closely allied to Wallace in the promotion of an abortion rights bill and most recently in the exposure of a practice where privileged members of society were being cleared of driving charges, something brought to the TDs, by whistle blowing members of the Irish police force. Clare Daly herself had resigned from the Socialist Party (and re-designated herself as a ULA TD) some months ago citing the Socialist Party’s lack of enthusiasm towards building the ULA. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jan 29, 2013 at 7:59 pm

Posted in 31st Dáil Elected 25.2.2011, Abortion, Clare Daly TD, General Election 2011, Household Tax 2012, Internal Democracy, Ireland, Left Unity, Left Wing Organisations, Mass Action, Mick Wallace TD, People Before Profit, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers' Party, South Tipperary Unemployed and Workers Action Group, Technical Group, Trotskyism, United Left Alliance

Dignified Protest in Clonmel at Labour Party Hypocrisy – Honouring James Connolly and Jim Larkin

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We publish below a Report from Séamus Healy TD on Protests marking the 100th anniversary of  the all-Ireland Labour party founded by James Connolly and Jim Larkin.

See also an Irish Times account of the same event,

Dignified Protest in Clonmel at Labour Party Hypocrisy

A dignified and successful protest organised by the Workers and Unemployed Action Group was held outside the Town Hall Clonmel on Sunday last , May 27 2012.

The event was organised to protest against the savage austerity being imposed on the Irish people by the Labour Party in Government and to expose the claim that the Labour Party of today has anything in common with the all-Ireland Labour party founded by James Connolly and Jim Larkin in Clonmel 100 years ago.

As is now usual the Labour Party was in hiding, they had run away again, cancelling the ceremony and sneaking into the Town Hall ‘earlier’ for a private unveiling. Three weeks ago Eamonn Gilmore and the Labour Leadership ran away, pulling out of the Clonmel Commemoration and giving the pathetic excuse of the Referendum. Read the rest of this entry »

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May 29, 2012 at 7:48 pm

Posted in Éirigí, Ireland, James Connolly, Jim Larkin, Labour Party (Ireland), Left Wing Organisations, Revolutionary History, Séamus Healy TD, South Tipperary Unemployed and Workers Action Group, The Irish Times, United Left Alliance

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ULA Conference: ‘Co-operation not competition’ – Statement from Paddy Healy and the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group

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The statement below was circulated by Paddy Healy this week and is, Tomás presumes,  the position of the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group going into the conference on Saturday.

It’s good to see the WUAG engaging like this with the ULA at large and doubly so given the content of the statement.

Huge Obligation and Opportunity for ULA as Sinn Féin reiterates its willingness to enter Coalition Government with any Party

Paddy Healy

Because of developments in the national and international economic and political crisis there is a huge obligation on ULA and on its components to make significant progress in its mission to politically reorganise the Irish working class in its own interest. The Irish Labour Party is once again in coalition government with a right-wing party. On this occasion the government is not just failing to introduce improvements for workers but is openly attacking all the gains made by workers over decades. If ULA can rise to its historic task the Labour Party could be wiped out and above all fail to recover from this period in government.

Following the recent rise of Sinn Féin in the polls, the party leader reiterated its willingness to enter coalition with any political party. This guarantees that sooner or later that party will go into oblivion sharing the same fate as Clann Na Poblachta and the Workers Party. But much damage could be done before then. The commitment of Sinn Féin to coalition confirms that it is no longer a revolutionary nationalist party. Read the rest of this entry »

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Apr 27, 2012 at 1:01 pm

Posted in 31st Dáil Elected 25.2.2011, Dublin Governments, Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Household Tax 2012, Ireland, Left Wing Organisations, Leon Trotsky, Low Pay, Séamus Healy TD, Sinn Féin, South Tipperary Unemployed and Workers Action Group, United Left Alliance