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View ArticleComment on Latest SBP RedC by seanmcgabhann
I’m going to presume most of that Inds percentage is made up of Eamon Ryan and the resurgence of the Green Party…
View ArticleComment on Latest SBP RedC by Jolly Red Giant
The demise of the SLP was ultimately the result of same condtions that led to the demise of the ULA. Neither group attracted new fresh layers of working class activists that could fill out the party...
View ArticleComment on Latest SBP RedC by richotto
In reply to JRG above even at the time the impetus for the formation of the party came from the Liason of the Left faction on the left of Labour and Noel Browne. Incidentally I was a party member at...
View ArticleComment on What Election is this Sinn Fein poster from ……. by Michael Carley
Genuinely not being sarcastic, but is there a reason why Northern Ireland is separated off by being shown in white? It doesn’t look like a very `Sinn Fein’ map of Ireland.
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Comment on What Election is this Sinn Fein poster from ……. by...
The ‘Border Campaign’ ? Its unusual alright…. and Donegal is very big
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Comment on If you were a Patrick Nulty… by WorldbyStorm
That’s what I’m hinting at in relation to the ‘meetings taking place in recent times’,
View ArticleComment on If you were a Patrick Nulty… by seanmcgabhann
Where couldn’t you go if you were a Patrick Nulty! There are loads of little parties on the Left, and in the eyes of the electorate he would be immediately seen as the best of them by virtue of wearing...
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Comment on If you were a Patrick Nulty… by irishelectionliterature
…or the new Party all the political hacks are hoping Lucinda will lead
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by Justin Moran
I think there’s a lot to be said for Jim and Jack’s points; the political puritanism of some of the forces on the left is dissuader to cooperation. It’s not enough to oppose or support something, you...
View ArticleComment on If you were a Patrick Nulty… by seanmcgabhann
before that’s blown out of the water after she votes whichever way the wind is….. sorry,… with her conscience on the abortion bill
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by Justin
And what about SF signing off on austerity in the North and their communalist approach to segregation? Would O’Caoloin be publically weighing in on Quinn’s side if Quinn wasn’t from a catholic...
View ArticleComment on If you were a Patrick Nulty… by Ceannaire
“And in any event, it is unlikely that a Patrick Nulty would be that keen to throw his or her lot in with a Marxist-Leninist formation.” I would imagine that if an ML formation had enough support, a...
View ArticleComment on If you were a Patrick Nulty… by Nessa Childers MEP (@NChildersMEP)
What a depressing scenario. I think, actually, that Nulty would run as al left Indo rather then any other kind of one. As would I. No matter what the outcome. You have to be able to live with yourself....
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 3rd of July 2013 by Joe
Good point in your first para carigeen. Strikes me that there are debates to be had about the mass protests in Turkey, Brazil, Egypt and… Syria, Venezuela in recent times. Similarities in many cases...
View ArticleComment on Being left, but going where and to what purpose? by ejh
somehow, somewhere along the line, to be progressive also stopped meaning a commitment to help the poor. It hasn’t, though. There are undoubtedly many people who would thnk gay marriage a priority but...
View ArticleComment on Cullinane welcomes John Douglas as ICTU president by smiffy
2. Does John Douglas take the average wage of the members he represents? How would they calculate that?
View ArticleComment on Cullinane welcomes John Douglas as ICTU president by JohnnyPaycheck
Typical Ultra Left nonsense from Lonely Red Giant. Why bother attacking the Right when you can hammer into the Left because they just aint Left enough and have (always) “Sold Out.” John Douglas has an...
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