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category international | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Thursday February 05, 2009 18:39author by Con Carroll Report this post to the editors

class political identification. this is not a recession this was well though out political economic agenda. this is war against the working class by capitalist interests

we dont need waffle from the political intellegentsia. the analysis has to be through political class interests. this economic war was started by the capitalist elite, who motto is work them until they die. this is the agenda of Harney IBEC the construction cowboys. ex PD TOM Parlon.
with their allies in the media of o Reilly. these are the people who were roaring for cuts in wages. these are the scum with their friends on the executives of the financial institutions who told us that there was no such thing as exploitation of people working on Irish Ferries in December. 2005-06. Remember Harney, with the excutives of FAS, at tax payers expense in South AFRICA. amazing that not one in the media has demanded The were abouts of the o Reilly financial dynasty is. as workers in Waterford Crystal occupy the plant yet he can raise his financial stakes with Denis O Brien. Over 7 billion hand out to the scum of the financial institution 87 million in the hands of Fitzpatrick his friends, financial controller keeping his mouth shut called into Dail and he walks. not bad folks where have we gone wrong these are the scum who were calling for cuts in social welfare , friends of Harney, who told people that lying on hospital trolleys was good experience. while families Mothers, Daughters Sons died while awaiting medical treatment. why are there ano protests outside the homes of Sean Fitzpatrick, Goggin bank of Ireland Gillian Bowler. not forgetting that there are trade union reps in the hands of these bastardslike one from BATU. ex FF independent Beverly Cooper Flynn. along side with their obscene mouthpieces in the Sunday Indo
Aengus FANNING unelected mouth piece Eoghan Harris. who pays the families of 31,000 people who have become redundant in the last month of 2009. there will be those seeking out scape-goats, people who are migrant workers and people who are asylum seekers to point the finger at. we need to stand firm opposing right wing racist political agendas. standing with working class ppolitical identification and proud of our class. the ENEMY THE CAPITALIST BUSINESS CLASS. last night on tv3 news, Joan Burton, labour giving her analysis, Joan is still getting payer her teachers pension, 5,000 per anum, she admitted she was no longer in the education field to Vincent Browne. she is elected member of the Dail. CLASS SOLIDARITY DIRECT ACTION PROTESTS ON THE STREETS.

author by Kevopublication date Fri Feb 06, 2009 13:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

One division in Irish society at the moment is between those who have jobs and those who don't. Another divide is between those who have permanent pensionable jobs and those who have other, insecure jobs. Another division is between the employed and the unemployable. During the celtic tiger boom years there was an urban and rural unseen underclass of those who because of educational disadvantage or geographical isolation never made it into the mainstream salariat. Whole families depended on assorted welfare entitlements. The Vincent de Paul visitors were aware of such families in many places, but the media and the mainstream politicians scarcely gave them a blink of notice. Parents in these households bought second-hand school textbooks at special co-operatively run shops set up for the purpose. Parents frequented the thrift shops to search for suitable footwear and clothing for the children. Primary school children benefited from special footwear and book grants received discreetly through school principals. The SVP also established breakfast clubs in schools where needy children received tea and sandwitches and did some homework 45 minutes before formal lessons began. That scattered underclass will stand up psychologically to the deepening recession better than many of those experiencing or about to experience unemployment for the first time. Many of this underclass don't vote in elections. Deep down they know the formal world of politics won't put jam on their breakfast table. That's left to the SVP.

 
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