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| Joe Higgins statement on RTS national | miscellaneous | news report  Wednesday May 08, 2002 16:16 by Blisset Press Statement - 8th May 2002 Garda Attack on Protest Follows Familiar Pattern in E.U. Call on Minister for Justice to Disclose Content of E.U. Justice Ministers’ Discussions Regarding Anti-Globalisation Movement Joe Higgins T.D. The Socialist Party The horrific scenes witnessed on Monday evening in Dublin, with members of the Garda provoking and viciously attacking protesters, followers a familiar recent pattern within the E.U. From personal observation of the huge protests around the E.U. Summit in Gothenburg, Sweden in June 2001, I concluded that there was a deliberate policy of provocation by the Swedish police and recorded my observations during Taoiseach’s Question Time in the Dáil. The police first provoked violence and then quite brutally attacked demonstrators. Similar situations developed in Genoa and later in Brussels. The Anti-Globalisation movement has garnered huge support among European youth and sections of the trade union movement. This has been discussed at meetings of E.U. Justice Ministers. I call upon the Minister for Justice to state the content of these discussions. In particular, I ask him to say whether a policy of repression of this movement has been tacitly agreed among the E.U. Ministers and whether this was a factor in the Garda response on Monday evening. Certainly, the dismissal by the Taoiseach of my personal observations in the Dáil point to a policy of complicity in repression against a growing movement of opposition to capitalist globalisation and multi-national domination of our world. For further information, contact Joe Higgins T.D. at telephone: (01) 618 3038 |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6I am not a supporter of the Socialist Party. But Joe Higgins' statement is useful and honest.
Not like some other organizations...
niall can we play nasty snidy name calling. and lets play hi jack the hi jack
niall can we play nasty snidy name calling. and lets play hi jack the hi jack
See above: How the S.W.P. deal with criticisms.
Come on out and defend your actions, theory and practise.
sorry, am i misunderstanding this thread? are you cpomplaining about Joe Higgins statement of the RTS events? are we hijacking your martyrdom? look, as a group opposed to capitalism (and for socialism) we are entitled to a) make a statement on what seems to be a disturbing trend over europe and b) to post it as news on indymedia. as are the SWP and any other leftist organisation who choose to do so. and on a separate point, how come the SWP election material was removed from this site (which to my mind was indeed news), while some of the shite i was reading yesterday about 'hippy-baiting' was not taken down - to my knowledge anyway.
Slán
C, Dearg
I was saying that this is a good statement. Nobody has a problem with Joe Higgins, fair play to him. We have a problem with the SWP bandwagon jumping, dirty tricks and cheap propaganda.
Reclaim the protest!