Popular Front for freedom!

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday May 10, 2002 13:25 by shane opiumden at lycos dot com

We Must unite for victory

I was present at the event on Monday and the protest on Thursday May 9th. What struck me most was the lack of co-ordination, information and (dare i say it?) leadership. After the sit-down outside Dublin Castle, no one knew what to do. We had control of the streets, but the gardai had no intentions of provoking us. We could have marched into Dublin Castle, mobilised outside the Dail, or taken over the Town Hall. But what did we do?, go to the fucking civic offices. Such a unique position to make REAL point was lost due to lack of organisation. What i propose is a Popular Front similar to the Spanish one of the 1930's. Surely all of these umbrella groups have more that unites them than divides them. Anyway with an election coming up, and the certainty that the conservative status quo will remain for another 5 years, the various left-wing groups should put aside their petty differences and form a front to mobilise willing activists (at least 3,000 were there on Thursday; a strong basis)and combat electoral mis-information. United we can not be stopped. There are too many fragmented groups floating around. A provisional list of allies would include; Reclaim the Streets, Globalise Resistance, Anarchist Federation, Anti-Fascist Alliance, Spatacist Group Ireland, Greenpeace and various travellers groups. The issue of including political parties is difficult, but they have good resources and infrastructure. I would include the Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Workers Party, SinnFein, Greens and like-minded independents. But political points, canvassing and electioneering would be forbidden.

UNITED WE WILL WIN!