“The demise of the Labour Party is pathetic sight.…”
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Socialist Republic1982The Southern state and its partiesTrade unions and workers' strugglesPartition and the national questionLabour, the left and left unityIrish history and its commemorationThe Southern state and its partiesTrade unions and workers' strugglesPartition and the national questionLabour, the left and left unityIrish history and its commemoration
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The demise of the Labour Party is a pathetic sight. The party founded by James Connolly who led the Irish Citizen Army and fought in the GPO in 1916, and was General Secretary of the ITGWU, has turned its back on Jrish working people North and South.
Party would tax social welfare — steal Who would have thought they would put VAT on clothing and footwear and lower food subsidies? Who would have thought they would close the sugar factory in Tuam and put half ;a town out of work? Who would have thought they would turn their backs on the Nationalist community in the Six Counties and the unity of the Irish nation?
Yes, it is a sad day for socialism when “socialists” go down on their knees to brutal Brutonism and terrible Thatcherism.
The Labour Party is no working class alternative to Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. Fianna Fail has no real alternative on the economic crisis or on the North;
Only candidates like Bernadette McAliskey and Joe Harrington, who take unity of the country and uncompromising defence of our interests seriously can be relied upon in Leinster House not to bow the knee, tug the forelock or sell us out. :
Noel Browne strikers, who oppose the British presence in our country and who wish to see an end to the economic domination of Ireland by foreign capital, unite to mount an all round political challenge to the stagnant capitalist The fact that a general election is now taking place in the 26 Counties is due to the instability created by the anti-