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Organisers behind the campaign to Save Stephen’s Green have said that “it is not the end” as plans for its demolition have been given the go-ahead by Dublin City Council (DCC).
By Red-wing The Fuel Protests have ended for the most part. There are very few strains of the movement that are still continuing at this stage, some in local areas where a dozen or two small farmers continue to organise in the countryside with the fallback plan of slow marches
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I remember when Irish antifascists were organised, disciplined, and when, if you were in trouble and being threatened by far-right thugs, you could call on them. That generation of antifascists emigrated, got burned out, or settled down since, and were never replaced.
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Can we state that the war has been engaged in a moral manner? Is the bombing of schools moral? Is the economic warfare inflicted upon the civilian populace moral? The murder of children is simply anathema.
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Many on the left... have muddied the path forward and the movement as a whole. They make false assumptions about our proletariat, make right-wing caricatures of them, and in that delusion head endlessly rightward to satisfy this non-entity.
Critical Analysis
Fintan O’Toole as usual waits for the dust to settle before giving his safe take for the Irish Times audience, acknowledging some factors but completely missing why these protests saw popularity across Ireland and why some people have shifted to a more “anti-state” ideology.
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The test of a new political party is not how loudly it launches, but whether it can hold serious people together once the excitement fades. By that measure, Your Party has already failed.
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
The real issue—both for those of us of a progressive persuasion and otherwise—is that we all see through Sinn Féin’s naked opportunism.
Recent years have seen the emergence of immigration as a major issue in Irish political discourse, coinciding with the rise of a serious right-wing populist movement in the country.
When the Left stops talking to working-class people, the Right step in.
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I am standing outside the Dáil as I write this and not only are the Trinity Students' Union not present but have instead spent the day running ad-campaigns with local food chains on their Instagram story, their main form of communication to the student body.
Many on the left know of Karl Kautsky, but few understand him. He is denounced as a reformist and his politics as anathema, but the reality of the fact is that he is one architect of the European revolution of 1917.
An ever growing critical mass of young students is drawing the correct conclusion that Trotskyism is a fifth column and an ideological disease that operates in the interests of capitalism and imperialism.
This evening I was browsing Instagram when I saw a new article comparing Paul Murphy to Lizz Truss. Yusuf Murray criticised Paul’s call for a price cap on petrol and diesel. He accused the policy of being a blank cheque to Shell, BP and ExxonMobil.
Saoirse Éireann’s response László Molnárfi’s speech to the “has the left failed the working class” debate defining her agreements and disagreements in a comradely manner.
A price cap on oil is a blank cheque, signed by me and you, to the likes of Shell, BP and ExxonMobil.
Internationalism, the holy gospel of the left, has been failing us here in Ireland. People have become so obsessed with the international issues that we are forgetting our own struggles. This reeks of the activism of the comfortable classes.
The Indo's polling just doesn't add up: at this margin of error, public support for the protests could be as low as 47.55%.
A post-Water Charges retreat to the cosy consensus of left liberalism, data-driven electoralism, and the reign of the slick SPAD has left us unable to run a bath.
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
We hope to see TrackRebel lay the foundation for the building of a mighty coalition of revolutionary groups and mass organisations in Ireland.
How we feel about the fuel protests doesn’t matter as much as the opportunity they have given us! If everyone, at this historical moment, rises up in unison and puts them under pressure, we all stand a better chance of winning our demands.