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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Erm, I don't think McCann actually wrote the article.
He was interviewed by another journalist who wrote the article.
If you think the quality of the journalism is in question or you are dissatisfied with the questions the Unite journalist posed it might be useful to write a letter to Unite magazine about it and suggest what you as a Unite member would expect your Union Magazine to be asking interviewees.
This opinion/analysis piece is hardly an analysis of the article, more about having an opportunity to engage in sectariana and have a go at and whinge about the SWP. Really indymedia is more than this and is supposed to be offering a radical alternative to mainstream media and at the moment the MSM is getting its heel into workers organisations and its a shame that indy is facilitating a pincer movement on SWP members.
McCann is always interesting and adds something insightful to an issue, whether one agrees with his viewpoint or not. He is compelling and engaging, while always being honest. The piece above chooses not to engage with what McCann actually is reported to have said but rather speculates what he did not say.
Send a link to the article so we can make up our minds because the opinion piece above is a distortion and not a radical nor passionate telling of truth.
To half brain
The original posting says that Eamonn McCann was interviewed. It never claims that he wrote the article. Yes another journalist wrote it, but it was Eamonn McCann who answered the questions. If the journalist did not accurately report McCann's answers then there is an onus on McCann to complain to Unite not the reader.
I am bemused as to why it is sectarian to raise political criticism of a person who is active in politics. Are the comments and remarks in the original posting which criticise the Labour Party and Eamonn Gilmore sectarian?
Or is it just the case that when anyone raises a criticism of the SWP on Indymedia or at a public event as a defence mechanism the immediate reply of the SWP is you are being sectarian, lets not get sidetracked by this sectarianism lets concentrate on fighting the bosses etc etc...And the reason for this is simple, because the SWP don't want to engage in serious debate.
So half brain change the record and deal with the real issues which have been raised that McCann avoided anything contentious that might upset the ICTU or Unite leadership. Why? These are not side issues, the points that have been raised relate to the most important issues facing the working class in Ireland today.
this is a bit of slanderous propaganda by someone who obviously does not like McCann. I agree with half a brain. you answer the questions you're asked, and as for the claims that McCann picks his battles carefully, who doesn't? speak of what you know or are passionate about. Regardless of any of this, he has done a lot of great work in the past. What have any of us done? enough of the armchair politics.
"Now the ICTU leaders are in government buildings plotting with IBEC and the government to screw the working class for the next five years."
That is infantile rubbish.
What FANTASY world do you live in mate !
Unitetheunion, i did not claim to be any kind of legal mind, and now seeing the type of personality you are i'm sorry i wasted my time replying. You ooze pretentiousness and ideas of superiority in the way you speak to people. You seem to be one of these people who won't listen to the word of others, you want everyone to agree with what you said. You are about as left as Fianna Fail.