OscailtMobilising the Irish Working Class- Agitate, Educate Organise!The question on the lips of many people who have attended the recent anti- austerity protests in Ireland is ‘where are the masses?’ Some who have taken to the streets have been disappointed by the numbers turning out, comparing Irish protests to those in Greece or Turkey and have begun to ask ‘why aren’t the Irish people fighting back?’
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2013-07-16T16:42:05+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=103886http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifwe have lost our way...http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103886#comment2966672013-07-16T16:42:05+00:00CiaraI believe irish people in general are lethargic and non-chalant,and do not have ...I believe irish people in general are lethargic and non-chalant,and do not have the balls to protest anymore.<br />
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They have lost their fighting spirit,their passion,look at egypt or turkey or paris,or greece,and spain,at a moments notice if the government pass a law over their heads without their sayso they are out on the streets on the same day!<br />
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You would never see that here. Europeans have grown lethargic and complacent there is no passion in us anymore..@ Ciara ...we are not europeanshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103886#comment2966782013-07-16T19:34:57+00:00anti europeanCiara, we are not europeans 'european' is a colonial construct, its a colonial i...Ciara, we are not europeans 'european' is a colonial construct, its a colonial identity. we are irish.<br />
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There are different circumstances in ireland. we will need an irish solution . comparing ourselves to egypt, greece and spain is laughable and ill informed. the average wage in spain for example is €640 a month, you can get more here on the dole. this is one of the many reasons why we are not on the streets.<br />
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the levels social control reached in ireland is incredible. The powers the gardai have for example are evidence of a police state. <br />
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The idea of eirigi being the vanguard party is not going to happen, it cant even break away from its Dublin centric and belfast centric selves and create cumainn in other counties. <br />
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the matrix is all around youhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103886#comment2966792013-07-16T19:41:25+00:00morpheusWe have been infected by american propaganda through that most insidious of thin...We have been infected by american propaganda through that most insidious of things, Television.<br />
we have been distracted by the shiny baubles offered by capitalism.<br />
The empty lives of celebrities mean more to us than those who fought and died so we could live free.<br />
In our stupid naivete we have built our own cage, walked in, and locked it, then thrown the key across the room.<br />
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We have no time to protest between working all day all week to pay the mortgage. Our free time is spent poking people on facebook, watching more propaganda to reinforce our self made prisons, desperately wishing we could be famous like the latest vacuous celebrity or win the lottery to be free. The news stirs us into a froth of fear of "terrorism" and creates sectarian divisions between us.<br />
"Those evil immigrants flooding in to take our welfare and our jobs" etc.<br />
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Activists are "terrorists" so we don't want to be associated with such people. They are all crusty hippies without jobs. They get beaten, teargassed, pepper sprayed, arrested. Their opinions are distorted and ridiculed openly on TV and in newspapers and on key websites. For an exaggerated version, see fox coverage of occupy wall street. See RTE coverage of Shell to sea protest for the local equivalent.<br />
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Why would people want to put their head above the parapet and have it removed by a thousand such cuts?<br />
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There are reasons people don't turn up to protest now. But those reasons are systemic. We are being systematically brainwashed and pacified and controlled, monitored and kept occupied and distracted.<br />
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When you are deliberately "dumbed down", how do you go from that to being "smarted up"?<br />
It's systemic and not easy to solve.<br />
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Interestinghttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103886#comment2966872013-07-16T21:55:40+00:00A republican opinionA very interesting article
I would agree with its main arguement around the la...A very interesting article <br />
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I would agree with its main arguement around the lack of working class organisation being a key if not the key factor in the lack of popular action by the masses.<br />
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I also agree that socialist republicanism is the most progressive force in Ireland but its impact today is still marginal. For éirígí to become the vanguard as the author proposes their would need to be what is discribed in the article as a realignment of socialist republicanism <br />
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I disagree with an earlier comment éirígí have begun to grow outside Dublin and Belfast but it still has a long way to go before become the vanguard of the irish revolution.<br />
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It's great to see analysis like this coming out of the republican movement and for republicans to be seeking answers to the real questions that are confronting our class.<br />
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Things look good for the future.