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Cobh AAA members condemn AAA leaflet | revolutionaryprogramme
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After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! Cobh AAA members condemn AAA leaflet. Immediately after I released my statement withdrawing support for the motion to expel Ciara from Cobh Says No to Austerity. It is with a renewed sense of purpose that the majority of the founding members and committee members of CSNA would like to announce the establishment of our new group, Cobh CommUNITY 4 Change. We want to create a space where people can contribute to this movement, become empowered and mot...
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A revolutionary Marxist’s view on the Marriage Equality referendum | revolutionaryprogramme
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After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! A revolutionary Marxist’s view on the Marriage Equality referendum. As I am not an Irish citizen I don’t get to vote in Constitutional referenda but I am fully in support of people voting YES in the upcoming referendum on marriage equality. The following article was first published in 1917, the journal of the International Bolshevik Tendency ( http:/ www.bolshevik.org/1917/no36/ibt 1917 36 09 capitalism queers equality.html. So heterosexual marriag...
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Correcting a mistake: On Divisions in Cobh Says No to Austerity | revolutionaryprogramme
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After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! Correcting a mistake: On Divisions in Cobh Says No to Austerity. I recently proposed the following motion for the next Cobh Says No to Austerity (CSNA) meeting (being held on 18 June):. I am therefore withdrawing my support for the motion to expel Ciara. Despite my significant political differences with both of the main political blocs around which the split is coalescing I remain committed to working with all those involved in the fight against wa...
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For a revolutionary socialist programme | revolutionaryprogramme
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After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! For a revolutionary socialist programme. There is a deep crisis in political leadership and the call to set up a new party that will put the interests of working people first is to be welcomed. There needs to be a thorough discussion about the tactics, strategy and programme of the new party and this document is a contribution to that discussion. Campaigning against the cuts. The ICTU bureaucracy explicitly condones crossing picket lines: Where a u...
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After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! Author Archive for Alan Gibson. Karl Marx on “taxing the rich”. From ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’ by Karl Marx. Bernie Sanders – imperialist warmonger. The truth is that Sanders is a capitalist politician wedded to the Democratic Party and US imperialism. Anyone who doubts this assertion need only look at the following examples for proof:. Sanders voted for U.S. intervention in Somalia in 1993. He supported Bill Clinton’s 1999 war on Serbia an...
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After the X-Case Legislation | revolutionaryprogramme
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After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! After the X-Case Legislation. After the X-Case Legislation. The struggle for free, safe and legal abortion in Ireland. Cork Women’s Right to Choose Group (personal capacity), alan.bolshevik@gmail.com. The right to choose means free abortion on demand. Abortion is illegal in Ireland under section 40.3.3 of the Constitution:. The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarante...
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No payment! No meters! Abolish the water charges! | revolutionaryprogramme
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After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! Abolish the water charges! Abolish the water charges! Recent weeks have seen dramatic scenes of working people taking action to defend themselves against the imposition of the hated water charges. Over 100,000 took to the streets of Dublin on 11 October, with at least twice that number demonstrating locally across the country three weeks later. The role of the guards in defence of capitalist austerity is not a case of bad policy on the part of the ...
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Correcting a pseudo-Marxist on use of the phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry” | revolutionaryprogramme
https://revolutionaryprogramme.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/correcting-a-pseudo-marxist-on-use-of-the-phrase-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat-and-peasantry
After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! Correcting a pseudo-Marxist on use of the phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry”. The July 2 issue of the British leftist paper. Included an article by Jack Conrad (central leader of the CPGB) “Truth, not myths, serve our cause” with a sub-head “Why do comrades on the left insist on repeating evident falsehoods about Lenin and the Bolsheviks, not least when it comes to 1917? Http:/ weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1066/letters/. This final...
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A Marxist response to the Right2Water “Policy Principles” | revolutionaryprogramme
https://revolutionaryprogramme.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/a-marxist-response-to-the-right2water-policy-principles
After the X-Case Legislation. Abolish the water charges! A Marxist response to the Right2Water Policy Principles. Trade unions in Right2Water have called for submissions on their document Policy Principles for a Progressive Irish Government. 8220;Put forward principles that can create unity among all progressive organisations and individuals and building the widest possible coalition for change. 8220;Promote principles that will promote policies that are radical, popular and deliverable.”. Given the invo...
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