In this video from Joe Higgins MEP’s speech at Saturday’s Social & Rally discussing and celebrating the election result, Joe talks about the need for left co-operation and a new party in Ireland that will fight for the rights of ordinary workers, young people and the unemployed.
As well as the full speech done through qik, the speech is also broken into 4 better quality segments on YouTube: FF & Green Wipe-out, Economic Crisis, this one and Joe’s plans for fighting Lisbon II.
For more information on the Socialist Party’s demand for a new mass workers’ party, check out: “New mass party for working class needed”, here’s a preview:
New mass party for working class needed
“IRELAND NEEDS a new political party; one that reflects the sweeping reassessments that have taken place in the past six months, ever since the old order started to disintegrate…. One popular, coherent movement is what is required.”
Justine McCarthy, writing in the Sunday Tribune (3 May), expressed an essential truth that the Socialist Party believes about the political situation in Ireland – there is a desperate need for a new mass party to represent working class people.
Attacks are raining down on working people – wages, benefits and the right to a job are all under attack. Yet there has been unanimity between all of the establishment parties about one thing –everybody has to pay the price for the recession.
Fine Gael advocates more than €10 billion cutbacks in public sector pay and more than €1 billion cutbacks in capital spending on health, education and roads over the next four years. Despite the hopes that many harbour, it is clear that Labour also offers no alternative. Labour’s record in Councils across the country, as well as in government in the past, proves that in government they would pursue fundamentally the same policies of cuts and attacks on working people. Read the Article in Full
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