Tomás Ó Flatharta

Looking at Things from the Left

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

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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ULA! “No one would have believed….”

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Dec 13, 2010 at 10:47 pm

Donegal South-West By-Election – isolated example or pointer to the future?

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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.

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Dec 4, 2010 at 11:56 am

Pearse Doherty TD Sinn Féin – A Lifer?

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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

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Dec 1, 2010 at 7:20 pm

“Right-Wing Think Tank Praised Ireland’s ‘Economic Freedom’ … and Then Its Economy Crashed”

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“Right-Wing
Think Tank Praised Ireland’s ‘Economic Freedom’ … and Then Its Economy
Crashed”

http://www.alternet.org/economy/148993/right-wing_think_tank_praised_ireland%27s_%27economic_freedom%27_…_and_then_its_economy_crashed/

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Nov 29, 2010 at 5:13 pm

Brilliant Steve Bell Cartoon on the International Monetary Fund / European Central Bank War Against irish Workers http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2010/nov/23/ireland-bailout-ireland

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Nov 29, 2010 at 4:42 pm