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James Connolly, Jack O'Connor & Frank Connolly![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A new left or a new job? Indymedia readers will be familiar with the work of Frank Connolly- He is the closest thing we have had to a good investigative journalist in this country for many years. The Corrib Gas report, Quarryvale and most recently his untangling of the corrupt mess that emerged from the incestuous nature of the Galway Tent, Dublin Docklands and the Anglo Irish Bank are just a few examples of why we need vocal independent and committed people like him to help us try to hold our political elites to account. In the June issue of Village magazine Issue 4 page 23 Connolly (Frank not James!) has an article called ‘ Time for a real, radical alliance’. In this article he is calling for a new radical left to emerge from the current crisis- so far so good. However, he goes on to use the piece as a vehicle to give some glowing praise to Siptu’s Jack O Connor -for example; |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3A tad ironic that you have accused Jack O Connor of accepting "the inevitability of attacks on workers as the first and maybe only solution to a crisis that could disenfranchise a generation", direcly after the story of SIPTU leading a protest of 2000 workers against Government cuts.
Not ironic at all, just two sides of one story, the community sector march is great, more of it would be better and I'll be the first to applaud Siptu or Jack O or Frank if they do start taking a stronger stand. Lack of imagination is my chief criticism, more cuts, less cuts,different cuts, taxes? levies? The government bond thing was a good idea but hasn't been pushed at all and wasn't even mentioned at the talk I attended. NAMA for example is going to cost us a fortune and it looks like we public private old age unemployed and even small buisnesses are going to pay. Shouldn't Siptu be calling for us to nationalize Corrib for example?
I haven't seen much evidence so far of a return to the union's revolutionary roots. If anyone has some put it in the mix...
was reading the sido (i know iam an idiot) last sunday. full page article on frank taking up this job. gist of it being in was a republican hint IRA conspiricy. looks like people are lineing up to hound him out of this job as well.