Look at at Iceland. They pushed their Government out and the new lot are still selling them down the river to the banks and EU. Imo this is a time for debate on how to replace them, and for party building.
Look at at Iceland. They pushed their Government out and the new lot are still selling them down the river to the banks and EU. Imo this is a time for debate on how to replace them, and for party building.
Anybody really believe anything ever really changes in the "real Ireland"? FF wont get wiped out - parish pump politics still rules in rural Ireland. And, on the subject of change, did anybody hear what I heard in the middle of the child abuse reporting? Yup - the angelus , tolling away - subsidised by yours and my licence fee. Sad old country - glad I left
Time for a revolution? I would say yes and no
In western Europe it's, objectively, been high time for a revolution for decades. The problem is that people don't see it. And you can't have a revolution without people.
I suggest having a look at Trotsky's transitional programme, which deals with just this issue.
And oul Gramsci had a few interesting points to make too, before Mussolini destroyed him.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJ_agcMy5c]YouTube - Marc Bolan & T Rex - Children Of The Revolution[/ame]
If there were a revolution going on, and the cause was just, then I'd be in the front line.
Certainly wouldn't join a Fine Gael revolution though.
If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.[...]
It would be tantamount to a public declaration that our oppressors had so far succeeded in inoculating us with their perverted conceptions of justice and morality that we had finally decided to accept those conceptions as our own, and no longer needed an alien army to force them upon us.