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news report
 Thursday May 16, 2002 17:02 by Working Class Action workingclassaction at eircom dot net
 WCA leaflet 'upsets Bertie' Below is a Press Release from Working Class Action outlining why we are distributing a leaflet in Dublin Central calling on voters not to support Dr. Dermot Fitzpatrick. Bertie's office has got into an awful tizz about this. A senior Ahern aide has accused people in the wrong and issued threats against WCA activists. He also says Bertie is 'very upset and disappointed.' Awww! Working Class Action Press Release Group Rejects Fianna Fail Candidate in Dublin Central Working Class Action, a group of local political activists, have called on voters in Dublin Central to support Independent and progressive community based candidates rather than those from mainstream parties. The group see the extremely tight contest for the last seat in the constituency as an opportunity to inflict some damage on the larger of the Government parties. For Fianna Fail to lose the second seat in the Taoiseach’s constituency would be an embarrassment, but more importantly, would also highlight the power a community has to punish politicians who do not represent the views of local people. Fianna Fail’s Dr. Dermot Fitzpatrick has been targeted due to his support for the double taxation of the Bin Charges and the Pelletstown development against local wishes. Dr. Fitzpatrick has been chosen by Fianna Fail due to their first choice Royston Brady’s continuous gaffes. He is being run in Dublin Central purely to get elected on Bertie Ahern’s surplus vote. The group feel that a ‘default’ candidate such as Dr. Fitzpatrick displays a lack of respect for the people of Dublin Central. The group states that the record of candidates from all the major parties shows them promoting policies which run directly contrary to the interests of working class people. The group will be leafleting door to door in the constituency. Working Class Action are encouraging voters in the Cabra, Navan Road and East Wall areas to vote in their own interests and those of their communities, and not to vote down the ballot paper with preferences for the one party. Working Class Action is an alliance of socialist, republican and community activists. We have come together to promote our belief in working class independence. We believe this can only be achieved by collective political action by communities themselves. [ENDS] |
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Jump To Comment: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Normally I'd be all in favour of booting an FFer out, but the above smacks of a cynical attempt by Sinn Fein to get people not to vote against their candidate. It might be nice if WCA made themselves public..
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Considering that 2 out of the three electronic constituencies, D West and D North are the only places where socialist party candidates have a hope- C Daly and J Higgins- will tonights election special on rte not make interesting viewing. Here out of 12 available seats you will have SP taking 2 - imagine the punditery on that- skewed I know- but the second week in a row that RTe 1 will provided a forum for far left on a friday night.
Of course neither might win....
who knows but some more nice popularity winning tactics by the SWP.... tut tut boys and girls, in this the era of spin ye just havent been paying attention have you?
Wait and see
Just in case anyone is wondering, the reason that Michael's posts have been hidden is that he was copying in full a previous article from the newswire and reposting it again, just to bring it up the newswire. This was done twice.
Indymedia's editorial guidelines state that duplicate posts will be removed. No matter how good the article is!
Indymedia get the rag out and start creating some news topic sections! (besides the debate forums, chat rooms etc.) News topic section like our National Election being an obvious example - so that ye can stop deleting my stuff! :)
News postings go off the page very quickly, so a topic section would be great.
The most obvious need for of course, is an Irish up-coming event section. If someone posts an upcoming event that is gone off the main page in no time, hence the need to re-type it in the news posting section which you may subsequently delete!
By the way, great showing on the Late Late recently by both Aidan O'Brien and Amanda Moloney.
Ye summed up your points very well, coherently and vigorously. Well Done!