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Eamonn McCann responds to Joe Higgins' call for new left party

category national | anti-capitalism | press release author Monday April 24, 2006 22:52author by kevin Wingfield - SWPauthor email info at swp dot ie Report this post to the editors

Speaking on Sunday morning, 23rd April, at the Jim Gralton Commemoration School in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Eamonn McCann responded positively to Joe Higgins' call for a new left party.

Speaking on Sunday morning 23rd April, at the Jim Gralton Commemoration School in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Eamonn McCann responded positively to Joe Higgins' call for a new left party.

"Joe Higgins’ call last weekend for a left-wing slate of candidates to fight the next Dail election is to be welcomed. There will be difficulties in the way of achieving the unity necessary to offer common left programme across the State. But we should not be daunted. We should see it as a duty, on as wide a basis as possible, to put forward a clear alternative to coalition with Fianna Fail or Fine Gael.

"The idea of a new mass-based Left party is some distance in the future. But a united campaign, bringing together credible community and single-issue groups, trade union activists and existing Left organisations is a realistic ambition which it is our duty to pursue.

"The party I am a member of, the SWP, responds positively to Joe Higgins’ call. We look forward to discussing how we might advance the project together, neither hiding the differences which exist, nor making such a fetish of them that continued fragmentation is ensured.

"At anti-war meetings and meetings of the People Before Profit/Davitt Alliance over recent months, I have been struck by the wide range of people who have been able to make common cause, despite previous sharp disagreements and resentments of one sort and another. Others will have had similar experiences in different contexts. We must build on this. I hope the days are gone when we allowed, say, different analyses of the class nature of the Soviet Union to stand in the way of joint action on immediate issues.

"We should discuss our differences as we march forward together. We might discover we have much learn from one another. We might have even more to learn from the people we would be appealing to in a general election campaign, who have no time for the endless wrangling which has characterised the Irish Left for too long.

"Some of the most committed fighters against neo-liberalism I have met in the past year would not describe themselves as socialists at all. Many have come into political activity through involvement in local issues---to do with planning, incineration,. hospital or school closures, etc., etc. They havn’t set out to overthrown capitalism, but their activity has brought them into confrontation with the neo-liberal agenda adopted by all the major capitalist parties.

"Who better than local campaigners who have earned the trust of their neighbours to carry the flag for a new Left initiative? Who better to represent the broad working class interest than the union activist who has helped organise her or his fellow workers to defend jobs and conditions?

"It is, I think, within the bounds of possibility to put forward candidates standing on a common programme in a dozen constituencies at least, not to seek a junior position in an administration dominated by adherents of neo-liberalism, but to represent and amplify the voice of resistance to neo-liberalism."

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
 1   You shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers     2213    Mon Apr 24, 2006 23:17 
 2   give us a political alternative     ImSickOfLeftyInfighting    Tue Apr 25, 2006 00:09 
 3   Couldn't agree more     UNITE    Tue Apr 25, 2006 00:22 
 4   More independents urgently needed     MC    Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:52 
 5   May I welcome     Dermot Lacey    Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:10 
 6   May I Welcome     Lacy Dermot    Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:40 
 7   No hope     Heres hoping    Tue Apr 25, 2006 18:17 
 8   The odds     Paddy Power    Tue Apr 25, 2006 22:26 
 9   Don't think Higgins was talking about this     Ha Ha    Tue Apr 25, 2006 23:14 
 10   Sigh..here we go again     ImSickOfLeftyInfighting    Wed Apr 26, 2006 01:40 
 11   ImSickOfLeftyInfighting     Hugo    Wed Apr 26, 2006 02:40 
 12   I dont have to come up with a plan     ImSickOfLeftyInfighting    Wed Apr 26, 2006 06:05 
 13   Socialist Parties     John    Wed Apr 26, 2006 15:07 
 14   Maturity will strike eventually     Richey    Wed Apr 26, 2006 15:24 
 15   Maturity is going to elude John I'm afraid     MichaelY    Wed Apr 26, 2006 15:32 
 16   Need For Change     Bronstein    Wed Apr 26, 2006 15:46 
 17   Socialist Parties     John    Wed Apr 26, 2006 15:52 
 18   Sauce for the goose can't ever be sauce for the gander, says John - bless!     Richey    Wed Apr 26, 2006 16:37 
 19   Bronstein - sp     Davy Carlin    Wed Apr 26, 2006 16:52 
 20   Hey, I'm getting it from the left and the right     ImSickOfleftyInfighting    Wed Apr 26, 2006 16:59 
 21   Socialist Parties.     John    Wed Apr 26, 2006 17:13 
 22   Re: John     By Any Means Necessary    Wed Apr 26, 2006 18:00 
 23   Barricades.     John    Wed Apr 26, 2006 18:14 
 24   -     Richey    Wed Apr 26, 2006 18:19 
 25   Useful work?     By Any Means Necessary    Wed Apr 26, 2006 18:20 
 26   Ireland     John    Wed Apr 26, 2006 19:02 
 27   ahem...     Dave    Wed Apr 26, 2006 19:11 
 28   Dave     Bronstein    Wed Apr 26, 2006 19:19 
 29   Ballybrack     The Digger    Wed Apr 26, 2006 19:29 
 30   To alll 'lefties'     Rosa Shaw    Wed Apr 26, 2006 21:53 
 31   Ahem Ahem     Principled objection    Thu Apr 27, 2006 00:00 
 32   Ahem Ahem Ahem     Objective Principal    Thu Apr 27, 2006 01:13 
 33   Ahem ahem ahem AHEM!     Principled objection    Thu Apr 27, 2006 01:55 
 34   would that     well    Thu Apr 27, 2006 09:05 
 35   More shenanigans     BT20    Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:04 
 36   Cheers     Davy Carlin    Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:47 
 37   BT20     Bronstein    Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:04 
 38   Hmmmmmmm     Davy Carlin    Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:37 
 39   Not easy money     EMcC    Thu Apr 27, 2006 16:10 
 40   EmcC     Emily    Thu Apr 27, 2006 16:17 
 41   Building or meeting     Curious    Thu Apr 27, 2006 16:19 
 42   Well     Davy Carlin    Thu Apr 27, 2006 16:30 
 43   Emily Should Stop Lying about People B4 Profit     Goretti Horgan    Thu Apr 27, 2006 16:52 
 44   Goretti Is The Liar     Emily    Thu Apr 27, 2006 17:38 
 45   Messy thread     Mark P    Thu Apr 27, 2006 18:48 
 46   Yep     Davy Carlin    Thu Apr 27, 2006 19:20 
 47   Response to Mark     Colm Breathnach    Thu Apr 27, 2006 19:28 
 48   For Crying Out Loud!!!     Goretti    Thu Apr 27, 2006 20:06 
 49   Reply to Colm     Mark P    Thu Apr 27, 2006 20:06 
 50   Goretti     Mark P    Thu Apr 27, 2006 20:13 
 51   Goretti     Emily    Thu Apr 27, 2006 20:21 
 52   Mark     Emily    Thu Apr 27, 2006 20:27 
 53   To ISN CIL and SWP     SP member    Thu Apr 27, 2006 21:17 
 54   Colm Breathnach - ISN personal capacity     SP member    Thu Apr 27, 2006 21:52 
 55   Response     Colm Breathnach    Thu Apr 27, 2006 23:15 
 56   Poor Joe     Buffoon watch    Fri Apr 28, 2006 09:48 
 57   And so,     Davy Carlin    Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:49 
 58   SP/SWP     John    Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:29 
 59   Sarcasm.....     Optimist    Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:35 
 60   Following on from Optimist     Long Term Optimist    Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:42 
 61   Colm     Mark P    Fri Apr 28, 2006 13:34 
 62   by Mark P - Socialist Party (personal capacity)     SP Member (nothing personable at all)    Fri Apr 28, 2006 16:00 
 63   SP Member     pat c    Fri Apr 28, 2006 16:13 
 64   Mark P - Would that be me you are talking about?     Buffoon Watch    Fri Apr 28, 2006 16:52 
 65   Optimist and SP member     Mark P    Fri Apr 28, 2006 17:23 
 66   Whatever     Long Term Optimist    Fri Apr 28, 2006 17:46 
 67   If we are going to start with the cryptic references     Mark P    Fri Apr 28, 2006 20:24 
 68   SP member     Colm Breathnach    Fri Apr 28, 2006 21:49 
 69   People before Profit meeting 10.3.06     Mary Muldowney    Fri Apr 28, 2006 22:29 
 70   Democratic centralism     Belfast SPer    Sat Apr 29, 2006 00:21 
 71   amendment     Belfast Sper    Sat Apr 29, 2006 00:25 
 72   whats going on?     Rick O'Shea    Sat Apr 29, 2006 00:44 
 73   Agitate Educate Organise     By Any Means Necessary    Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:02 
 74   Belfast SPer     Mark P    Sat Apr 29, 2006 16:02 
 75   Ah     Seán de Barra    Sun Apr 30, 2006 03:42 
 76   A few points     hs    Thu May 04, 2006 00:50 
 77   doomed     Seán de Barra    Thu May 04, 2006 03:04 
 78   Mary Muldowneys Clarification.     Emily    Wed Feb 14, 2007 15:23 
 79   Motion     Emily    Wed Feb 14, 2007 15:41 


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