Ireland and the Fourth International

Papers, journals and pamphlets of the Fourth International's supporters in Ireland, 1969–1996

Divorce

In Socialist Republic: Vol. 6 no. 4, July 1983 · scan page 8 · about 179 words

Women's liberationLabour, the left and left unity

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Spring has broken out again. Marital breakdown.

knuckles. the ones that don't cost anything!

for the labour party to act.

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The love affair between the media and Labour leader Dick ful at being ‘his master's voice’ in the Coalition and backing the capitalist austerity offensive that people were beginning to forget that Labour were in Coalition!

Now Dick Spring has made a statement asserting his party's formal position against the ban on divorce. arently trying to outflank the Oireachtas Commission on As a result Fianna Fail threaten to leave the cttee and Fitzgerald rapped Dick over the All this has enabled the media to portray Spring as a political radical, but cynics have pointed out that all the major points of Labour's manifesto have been dropped as the price of coalition and that when the Labour party is committed to making workers pay for the capitalist crisis the only radical gestures that it can afford are Divorce campaigners shouldn't hold their breath waiting from workers - not the fake radicals of the labour leadership. Record Review

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