tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post3372496030674882061..comments2024-03-23T10:20:15.689+00:00Comments on Léargas: Oppose the CutsMáirtín Ó Muilleoirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088662505129211196noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-41387877071241865702010-04-30T17:23:22.791+01:002010-04-30T17:23:22.791+01:00Gerry
As I've said before, I often agree with...Gerry<br /><br />As I've said before, I often agree with what you say, although not always. On the question of cuts in public services I have to agree fully. I should also say that this is not a new sentiment. I saw you in Dublin two years ago calling for action against cuts in the Irish health service. However, can you guarantee that you will deliver on these words? <br /><br />I watched the manifesto launch and was surprised to hear you call for what can only be described as a popular unity government for the six counties. Do you really think the likes of the UUP and especially the TUV (should they get anywhere) are going to support a campaign against cuts in the north? And as you rightly say, the SDLP are too close to the Labour Party to be able to act independently. <br /><br />One thing I agree with though is the border. It is a monumental failure and a waste of money. It doesn't even do it's job, as the amount of smuggling from the south shows. It makes about as much sense as maintaining Trident, another black hole into which the establishment insists on pouring money. <br /><br />Should you come out as the largest party in the north, as I suspect is actually possible, I wish you luck in fighting the cuts in services. Maybe look at the lessons of the Liverpool struggle of the 1980's. Anything that improves the lives of the working class, nationalist or unionist, catholic or protestant, has got to be welcomed.Red_Maggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01162089715546947807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-17183890436297595232010-04-27T22:51:20.651+01:002010-04-27T22:51:20.651+01:00More great works Gerry,
The problems of breaking t...More great works Gerry,<br />The problems of breaking through the complete wall of disinformation and the separation of Irish republicanism from the British politicians. The real need of legislatively based Bill of Rights still stands.In the end there is no such thing as a benign imperialism, even by proxy. Ireland is held ,as if by shareholders of great international corporations. The only real end to the British presence in Ireland is a coalition of Labor government in power. The only social force that can remove Britain from Ireland will be the Irish working Class.<br />The Class border and Class basis, has divided as no Partition has, the distortion of progress to Class politics , this becomes the real boarder.As the Irish economy was broken up by partition, so suffered its people.<br /> So we have suffered by having an economy which is basically an extension of the British one, run purely for British interests. The aim of a democratic socialist republic should not be just one more slogan,but sent out to all the people of the South, of the arrival a new Ireland. The philosophy of Unionism is now under a new relational but not abandoned.The British need for a continuance of partition is not just military and financial responsibility . There is also a very large Secret Service fund witch is actively used to support partition both in the North-east and in the Republic. The Sinn Fein strenght is one of unbending defence of the rights of the oppressed to fight back and advance by whatever means the goal, of a struggle for a free and just socity . Thank-you Gerry for you hard work, againTimothy Doughertynoreply@blogger.com