Fine Gael and Neutrality

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday May 30, 2003 11:44 by Jim Monaghan

Supporters of all the pro coalition Leftwing parties should pass resolutions demanding that their leaderships not enter into talks with Fine Gael over its policy of dropping neutrality

According to an article in todays Irish Times Fine Gael became the first Irish party to call for the abandonment of traditional military neutrality. Saying we should join the rival European "defence" structure. This of course fits in with the De Rossa line that European Imperialism would be much more benign than American Imperialism. I am sure that our experience of British Imperialism and ther Vietnamese and Algerian experience should put the lie to that.
I ask the supporters of Labour, Sinn Fein and the Greens to think again about allying themselves with this pro war party. Not that the underminers of neutrality in Fianna Fail are much better.
This is a wake up call the fight to keep us out of Imperial wars has not ended. For the moment it should be directed against those who want power in order to make us a component part of the Imperialist war machine.