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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yehbut_nobut View Post
    Let's be realistic now. If breaking news came on saying a mob had gathered at leinster house and was engaged in confrontation, and it seemed to be getting out of hand etc etc...


    What would anyone here do?
    If I wasnt already at the head of it, I would join them

    The greedy sows need to be removed

    Selfish self interest must be considered a crime in the Real Republic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 121.5 View Post
    If I wasnt already at the head of it, I would join them

    The greedy sows need to be removed

    Selfish self interest must be considered a crime in the Real Republic.
    Well said. Check your playslip, you are now paying for FF's sins.

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    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
    If you've left the country you can stop paying your TV license fee, you know. We've heard all the excuses, and none of them . . .etc. etc.

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    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.

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    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJ_agcMy5c]YouTube - Marc Bolan & T Rex - Children Of The Revolution[/ame]

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    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.

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