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Cork May Day March – Report & Photos
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Thursday May 01, 2008 22:52 by Ray - Cork WSM (pers. cap.) - May Day Marcher
A colourful sight on the city streets to gladden any conscious worker's heart! This year’s march organised under the auspices of the Independent Workers’ Union paraded proudly and successfully through the streets of our city, both commemorating workers’ stuggles of the past and looking to the future – a future hopefully starred with victories for the working class over the tyranny of rapacious heartless Capital. The marchers assembled at Lapp’s Quay and set off late, at a quarter to eight, for some Garda ‘reason’ or other. The 200-strong (my estimate) march proceeded to Daunt Sq. via Parnell Place, Merchants’ Ouay and Patrick St. Along the way the march stopped at various points along the route, where speakers (IWU General Sec. Noel Murphy, poet and socialist Diarmuid Ó Dálaigh and Cork Women’s Right to Choose’s Mary Favier) recalled some events, persons and places from Cork city’s history that were important in the struggle of labour in Ireland and worldwide. |
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May Day! I love it !!
A day rich in meaning, from Bealtaine to the Haymarket Martyrs of Chicago in 1886 to today.
And don't ye worry - we'll all be back next time! Maybe see you there too?!
Looks like it was fun!
Much better than the Dublin one anyways, that was like a funeral march. Maybe 300 at it but they all looked bored and it was eerily quiet.
Yeah, looks great! Good to see all the auld faces out...and a few new ones as well.
Well done Cork.
At any rate they enjoyed themselves. I'd say, however, that a bunch of about fifty people marching behind a Workers Solidarity Movement banner doesn't amount to much of a 'movement'. Where were all the other workers in the city on the day? In cafes, kitchens and workplaces scanning the Indo and British tabloids, especially the racing pages, instead of buying wholesome anarchist or trotskyist comment periodicals? And five or six young women (students?) demanding the legalisation of abortion - where were all the other married women of the city? Thinking about the birds and the bees? Good that the organisers made a lifetime achievement award to Pat the Picket, though. Pat surely puts some cheer and imagination into his protests on the Old Head and other issues. Life would be much duller without Pat. And Cork Mayday beats Dublin for atmosphere.
Perhaps turning what is supposed to be the traditional workers day into a pro abortion march is not the way to go. Just a thought.
Ray you beat it to me this morning but here are a few more photos from yesterday evening's Cork May Day march.
Might the witchdoctor be better than the HSE?
Workers Party and IWU on Merchant's Quay
Free the Old Head of Kinsale! John Maguire and Rosie Meade (left of banner)
Cork Women's Right to Chose group
Cllr. Mick Barry, Socialist Party on Parnell Place
The organising group for May Day in Cork put in a lot of work over the last while and it paid off. Well done to them.
Interesting to see the Independent Workers Union marching in favour of legalising abortion. Is the membership aware that this is policy? Wonder what the Home Helps Branch think of this. In the IWU charter it promises full transparency to membership.
It's a May Day march, lots of group brought their banners. The IWU were there in their own right. Now begone troll. I suppose you'd prefer to keep women back in the Middle Ages with their fertility controlled by unmarried priests.
Abortion rights are a workers issue. If you can't control your body how can you control your life, your workplace, your family? Abortion rights should be a part of the workers movement in general. Women's issues are workers' issues.