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About LinkBacksLabour Youth has issued a call for the nationlisation of the Corrib Gas.
Their press statement can be foud here:
http://www.labour.ie/youth/news/inde...223144127.html
What do people think?
Labour Youth has issued a call for the nationlisation of the Corrib Gas.
Their press statement can be foud here:
http://www.labour.ie/youth/news/inde...223144127.html
What do people think?
I think Labour Youth are completely irrelevant and about a million miles from Labour's position on almost everything.
Sovereignty is Democracy
Good Idea, but if it was nationalised today Im sure the main party would be ready to privatise it in 5 years with their drift to the right.
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Not surprising anyway. It shows us that for the usual leftist crowd that this was never about the possibly of a pipeline exploding and people dieing, but just another anti-Capitalism rant. The people of rossport were just being used.
The thing is if Labour get into government there isn’t a chance of them nationalising the Corrib Gas.
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In the Labour Youth Newsletter i read today in TCD, whether its just the TCD branch or what, but has an article about "should Sinn Fein and Labour finally coalesce"
Hmmm.......something the party itself would love.....
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That's true. Ye guys do realise ye should probably be in the Socialist party don't ye? (Or in some cases OSF or Éirigí)Originally Posted by MacCoise
"John Bull has got his hand down your pants and his fist around your bollox and you can't see it."
That's not true. Just because the Rossport situation isa perfect demonstration of the flaws of capitalism doesn't mean the campaign wasn't justified on its own merits!
"John Bull has got his hand down your pants and his fist around your bollox and you can't see it."
How do you nationalise something that buried under a couple of hundred feet of rock 50 miles off the Atlantic coast?
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I think nationalisation of the gasfield is a key demand of the campaign. The gasfield offers a huge potential for the state to invest into healthcare, education and the transport system to the benefit of working class people but on what basis should nationalisation be carried through? We've had a number of state-owned companies in Ireland, all crippled by bureaucracy and wasteful management, entirely because they're generally unaccountable to the communities and workers in them. Genuine nationalisation for the benefit of working class communities must be linked to a demand for nationalisation under democratic workers' control where the communities and workers can make these companies accountable and beneficial. They must be taken out the hands of the bureaucratic, grossly overpaid directors and executives. LY falls far short on this demand.
It's rubbish to say that it was merely "another anti-Capitalist rant". Private companies have never put the interests of safety above their own profit levels. The number of deaths from pipeline accidents in the recent past is enough to prove that. There are already photographs showing the rusting and corroding pipelines before they've even been put to use!Not surprising anyway. It shows us that for the usual leftist crowd that this was never about the possibly of a pipeline exploding and people dieing, but just another anti-Capitalist rant.
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Why would anyone from LY want to be in the SP? You join Labour to make a difference, not sit on your throne of purity congratulating yourself on your purist pehaviour. The SP will never achieve the changes they talk about, and thus are not in any sense an alternative. They are a token gesture.That's true. Ye guys do realise ye should probably be in the Socialist Party don't ye? (Or in some cases OSF or Éirigí
It wasn't just about the dangerous pipelines, although how you figure that the people of Rossport are being used is beyond me. People wouldn't submit to going to jail and putting their lives on hold for a few years unless there was a real issue here.It shows us that for the usual leftist crowd that this was never about the possibly of a pipeline exploding and people dieing, but just another anti-Capitalist rant. The people of rossport were just being used.
To say it's just a small issue whipped up by a few crusties is not only insulting to the people invloved, but it also flies in the face of the evidence on the ground.
Exactly - it wasn't the fact that these companies were state owned that led to them being poorly run - it was because useless FF stooges like Noel O'Hanlon were given the job of running them.We've had a number of state-owned companies in Ireland, all crippled by bureaucracy and wasteful management, entirely because they're generally unaccountable to the communities and workers in them
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