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Seamus Healy TD calls for Left Wing alliance

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Wednesday May 21, 2003 08:58

by Jim Monaghan

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In a letter in todays papers Seamus Healy TD calls for a Left Wing alliance of the Labour Party, Greens, Sinn Fein and independents

This alliance would have support of 40% of the electorate and at last end the tweedledum tweedledee nature of Irish politics. FG, FF and the PDs belong together but with their false competition have fooled the people for long enough.The dynamic of an alternative alliance with a push on the streets by activists could change things. Seamus Healy proved that the Left could win. He won on a clear Left program in a prodominately rural constituency. This call is realistic and should be supported. Let us have a debate between the Left and inside the Left parties on this. Sinn Fein and the Greens shouod be persuaded that this is the way forward and not a coalition propping up the FG or FF right and destroying the hopes of their supporters. The SP and SWP and assorted Left should seek a part in this alliance.
Read and circulate the letter yourselves.
At last a chance.
Jim Monaghan

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Comments (57 of 57)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Anyone able to post the letter here.	Sean	Wed May 21, 2003 09:44
2	Healy Left?	Durutti	Wed May 21, 2003 09:55
3	Absoultely!	Anonymous	Wed May 21, 2003 10:27
4	Seamus Healy's Letter callingfor a left wing alliance	John Meehan	Wed May 21, 2003 10:40
5	I thought that a left wing alliance should be made up of Left wing people?	Badman	Wed May 21, 2003 10:43
6	Interesting idea	Janus	Wed May 21, 2003 11:04
7	Pure Socialism	???	Wed May 21, 2003 11:05
8	Process	Badman	Wed May 21, 2003 11:19
9	A very useful idea	Ciaran	Wed May 21, 2003 13:08
10	Moving things forward	Jim Monaghan	Wed May 21, 2003 13:30
11	real life politics	Gaillimhed	Wed May 21, 2003 16:47
12	Ciaran, Jim Monaghan, Gallimhead - Bang on - Email Address??	Anonymous	Wed May 21, 2003 17:24
13	email [email protected]	pat c	Wed May 21, 2003 17:49
14	Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater Gaillimhed	mick	Wed May 21, 2003 18:16
15	This would be amazing	Tom Shelley	Wed May 21, 2003 18:17
16	How to destroy the left...	Yossarian	Wed May 21, 2003 18:23
17	Nice one Pat C - Yup FG are on the way out	Anonymous	Wed May 21, 2003 18:26
18	Time for a Socialist block	archivist	Wed May 21, 2003 19:37
19	Come on!	Robbie	Wed May 21, 2003 20:40
20	Meaningful Change	Ciaran	Wed May 21, 2003 22:58
21	Change does not happen in Parliament	OK	Thu May 22, 2003 00:08
22	From Oisins Bile	Tom Luby	Thu May 22, 2003 10:15
23	And they call the anarchists utopians	Badman	Thu May 22, 2003 11:39
24	Re: Meaningful change	Yossarian	Thu May 22, 2003 11:41
25	Badman, yossarian et al..	Gaillimhed	Thu May 22, 2003 11:59
26	gaill	pat c	Thu May 22, 2003 12:36
27	Revolution	Badman	Thu May 22, 2003 12:50
28	Careful Badman	pat c	Thu May 22, 2003 13:02
29	Meaningful change is possible	Ciaran	Thu May 22, 2003 13:45
30	Sinn Fein was right	Seamus Loughnan	Thu May 22, 2003 13:47
31	Tangents to debate	Jim Monaghan	Thu May 22, 2003 13:56
32	To Thine Own Self Be True	Tom Luby	Thu May 22, 2003 14:38
33	What divides us and the National question	Jim Monaghan	Thu May 22, 2003 15:40
34	Central	Tom Luby	Thu May 22, 2003 16:04
35	Ordinary workers dont understand the trotskyist mumbo jumbo phrases and dogma	witchdoctor	Thu May 22, 2003 16:51
36	My Witchdoctor Colleague Makes A Good Point	Psychiatrist	Thu May 22, 2003 17:07
37	A reply to Ciaran	OK	Thu May 22, 2003 21:57
38	Welcome Healys comments	Fergal OB	Thu May 22, 2003 22:40
39	OK-SP is correct on the relationship between reform and revolution.	Phuq Hedd	Thu May 22, 2003 23:02
40	LP attitude to SF	Tom Shelley	Fri May 23, 2003 02:36
41	SP Sectarianism	Magneto	Fri May 23, 2003 11:24
42	Reply to Phuq Hedd & OK	Ciaran	Fri May 23, 2003 11:40
43	Reply to Ciaran and 'Magneto'	OK	Fri May 23, 2003 16:02
44	The Same Old SP Song	Magneto	Fri May 23, 2003 16:25
45	'Magneto' is 'huh!'?	OK	Fri May 23, 2003 16:34
46	The Working Class and Tony O'Reilly	Ciaran	Fri May 23, 2003 16:58
47	another reply to Ciaran	OK	Fri May 23, 2003 17:04
48	OK	Magneto	Fri May 23, 2003 17:05
49	Oh And BTW	Magneto	Fri May 23, 2003 17:07
50	Evidence Of SP Lies	Magneto	Fri May 23, 2003 17:16
51	Looks Like OK Lost Another Argument	Hebe	Fri May 23, 2003 18:46
52	Don't forget to write to him and e-mail him!!	Anonymous	Fri May 23, 2003 19:10
53	Support Seamus Healy's proposal	John Meehan	Sat May 24, 2003 00:45
54	Argument against a 'left wing alliance'	No 2 Alliance	Sat May 24, 2003 16:15
55	No 2 Alliance - Good points you make - But Alliance vitally needed as interim solution	Anonymous	Sat May 24, 2003 17:37
56	building a united front against the capitalist offensive	John Throne	Sat May 24, 2003 20:58
57	Labour are scum	No 2 Alliance	Sun May 25, 2003 15:22

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