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Con Job!

One firm fact is being pushed forward as the spearhead of the struggle to re-elect the coalition. The recession is over! Thanks to the honesty and competence of Fine Gael and Labour the tiger is back and Ireland is the fastest growing economy in Europe!

The story is highlighted with an election war chest put together with the aid of the Troika. Warnings of exaggeration and reckless behavior from their own advisors are ignored.

"Why so glum then?" They ask the workers. The fact is that recovery has been restricted to the capitalists and the well off. The reality of austerity under the next government is spelt out in the Lansdowne Road agreement and in the growing mass of poor and homeless. 

To add insult to injury, there is constant theft from the public purse and endless enquires that go nowhere.  Laws are invented to punish protest.

Where is the fightback? Right2Water has been wound up.  Attempts to put together a leftist party with the Right2Change label have proved to be a busted flush.  The main component of the much lauded “left alternative”, Sinn Fein, has signed up to endless austerity in the North under the “Fresh Start” label and talks openly of a coalition with Fianna Fail. 

We must end the sectional squabbles and aim for an all-Ireland alliance against austerity that will unite the workers and repressed.

 


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