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Statement on Clare Daly’s involvement in the ULA
There has been media comment regarding the position of Clare Daly TD in the United Left Alliance. The Socialist Party would like to state its position.
Yes campaign relies exclusively on scaremongering
If you vote ‘No’ you will be exiled to Siberia! Just about the only threat the Irish people have not been menaced with over the past few weeks. Don’t be surprised if it yet emerges, as we enter the last week of the campaign around the Referendum on the Fiscal/Austerity Treaty.
Ireland’s greatest – James Connolly
“The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go.”- James Connolly
You are unlikely to hear this quote being given when broadcaster Joe Duffy makes the case for James Connolly to be selected as the greatest Irish person in the RTE series. If you do you will probably be told that Connolly’s firm anti-capitalist socialist outlook may have been okay for his time but has little relevance in today’s world.
Socialist Party annual conference takes place this weekend in Cavan
MEP and Dublin West candidate for the general election Joe Higgins commented:
"This weekend the annual conference of the Socialist Party takes place against the political and economic backdrop that points towards years of savage cutbacks, high unemployment and mass emigration of our youth unless a serious political challenge to the establishment consensus is built allied to a fightback in the form of mass protests and strike action.
