Connolly Festival (1 Viewer)

[jackwhite]

A weekend of discussion and debate is taking place (Friday June 16th - Saturday June 17th) on topics including:
Same Sex Marriage
Boycott killer coke
Pro Choice Activism
Boycott Killer Coke
US Military out of Shannon
Shell 2 Sea

For more information please see: http://www.labour.ie/youth/news/index/20060505162710.html

Friday June 16th Same Sex Marriage - 8pm
Rachel Mathews Mc Kay Labour LGBT
Marie Mulholand - Chair of Irish Council for Civil Liberties Working Group on Partnership Rights

Saturday June 17th Pro Choice Activism - 10 am
Jane Horgan Jones UCD Students Union
Marianne Farrelly - BODY (Youth Pro Choice Group)

Boycott Killer Coke 11.30 am
Claire Hall - UK Students Against Coke
Paul Dillon - Irish Boycott Coke campaign

US Military out of Shannon 2.30 pm
Cllr. Declan Bree
Cormac Mc Mahon - anti war activist
Shell 2 Sea 4.30 pm

Shell 2 Sea 4.30 pm
Tommy Broughan T.D.
Tracey Ryan Rossport Solidarity Camp

All meetings on the Saturday will take place in the main hall at the back on the ground floor of the Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square.

Saturday Night: CONNOLLY SOCIAL
Further details to be announced

Everyone is very welcome
Related Link: http://www.labour.ie/youth/news/index/20060505162710.html

 

[Janer]

 

[JohnnyRaz]

ah whitehouse.org, where would we be without it!

 

[mazzyianne]

I think the dates were changed???
Think it's on friday all day

 

[The Schnapper]

That is all.

 

[Janer]

ah whitehouse.org, where would we be without it!

I normally frequent Ogrish

 

[Polo]

Cllr. Declan Bree

The sooner that lad scrapes the Labour Party off his shoe, like the crusty animal shite it is, the better.

 

[ICUH8N]

any hott labour chix going to this?

 

[IFF]

A weekend of discussion and debate is taking place (Friday June 16th - Saturday June 17th) on topics including:
Same Sex Marriage
Boycott killer coke
Pro Choice Activism
Boycott Killer Coke
US Military out of Shannon
Shell 2 Sea

i didn't know conolly was pro same sex marriage, anti-coca cola, pro choice on abortion, anti coca cola (again), wanted the us military out of Shannon and didn't like Shell

plus i thought weekends usually include sundays but hey what do i know about the working classes and what they do?

sorry i'm in a bitchy mood tonight

note: i'm not saying i disagree with the issues, i'm just saying i didn't know that's how conolly felt on them

 

[Doctor Muscles]

any hott labour chix going to this?

Judge for yourself: http://www.labour.ie/youth/about/nye.html

 

[Janer]

Guess he won't be going so ;]

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Hott labour chikz

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I personally think james connolly would probably be either the head of siptu or throwing rocks at us planes in shannon were he alive today.
Possiby could be life partners with pearse?

 

[jackwhite]

Connolly was very clearly in his life time on the side of anti imperialist struggles and on the side of liberation particulary in relation to women.

So of course there was no boycott Coke campaign at the time but he was one of the stongest advocates of international solidarity between workers and would not have hesitated to support Colombian Trade Unionists killed for joining a union.

He didn't advocate Shell 2 Sea because there was no proposed gas pipe line - but he was resolute in oppossing capitalist bosses who tried to expolit local communities.

There was no US war planes in Shannon, but Connolly took every opportunity to oppose imperialism in all its forms - the motto of the Citizen Army was "we serve neither King nor Kaiser" - ie we reject all forms of imperialism.

He was not pro choice of pro same sex marriage - these were not issues of contention in Ireland at the time. The issue of contention for women was whether they could exercise the right to vote - on this Connolly was robustly solid:

Speaking of Connolly during the Dublin strike and lock-out of 1913, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, editor of the suffragist newspaper Irish Citizen, stated:

"Mr. James Connolly . . . is the soundest and most thorough going feminist among all the Irish labour men . . . He has done more, by speech and writing, than any other man to bring about that strong feeling of sympathy for the suffragist cause which now exists among the Irish Labour Party."

 

[Polo]

But tell us Jack, do you think that Connolly, the Marxist revolutionary, syndicalist and anti-imperialist, would be out canvassing for a Fine Gael led government if he was alive today? Colour me cynical and all, but I think he would be unlikely to give Rabbitte's Labour Party the steam off his piss.

 

[jackwhite]

Fair question. Its all a bit hypothetical what would Connolly be doing if he were alive today. You could suppose that he might be in a whole range of left parties or just as likely would be setting his own up. And of course he wouldn't support a FG led government - but neither does Labour Youth which is organising this event.

But what is relatively clear is that he would be on the side of ordinary people in campaigns like Shell 2 Sea and that he would be active in campaigns to against imperialist war and in support of his international trade union comrades in Colombia. I guess that's why the festival is about these campaigns rather than about elections and government pacts and so on.

There are many socialists in the Connolly tradition in the Labour Party and many people who have proud records of struggle in his tradition including people like Declan Bree.

 

[Doctor Muscles]

Hott labour chikz


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She's a hottie!

 

[ICUH8N]

Hott labour chikz

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I'd easily fuck that.
WWJD = What Would James Do
Is Boycott Coke the same kinda thing Brits Out was, back in the day?

Anyone seen those pictures of Enda Kenny on the new Fine Gael posters?

Oompa-loompa doompety-doo
I've got another annual conference for you.
Oompa-loompa-dumbety-dee
Poor people and Foreigners are frightening to me.

 

[jackwhite]

BTW I think comments about the aesthetics of Labour Youth members are pretty irrelevant and superficial.... I know your just having a laugh.... but the insinuation that politics has anything to do with aesthetics is what you'd expect to find on a young pds site ... not on a slightly alternative music board.

 

[ICUH8N]

I reckon Graham O'Maonaigh is a Jedi.

Use the force (of collective bargaining)

 

[Polo]

And of course he wouldn't support a FG led government - but neither does Labour Youth which is organising this event. [...]There are many socialists in the Connolly tradition in the Labour Party and many people who have proud records of struggle in his tradition including people like Declan Bree.

This is a bit disingenuous isn't it?

1. Labour Youth may not "support" a Fine Gael led government, but they exist to gather support amongst young people for the Labour Party which enthusiastically supports a Fine Gael led government. In the next election Labour Youth will be showing their lack of support for a Fine Gael led government by canvassing for candidates who are committed to taking part in a Fine Gael led government.

2. I'd have lots of criticisms of Declan Bree, but he does stand for something and better than Rabbitte and the other scum who run the Labour Party. Thing is though that Bree is clearly on his way out of the Labour Party after having been shafted by its leadership which makes it a bit cheeky to use him as an example of what's right with Labour.

3. To bring these two threads together, when Bree stands as an independent socialist or something similar in the next election, what little exists of Labour Youth in the area will be canvassing against him and for the local Labour Party candidate... who isn't just committed to a Fine Gael led government, he's a recent defector from Fine Gael.

I don't think the Labour Party's politics have anything remotely to do with those of James Connolly. I think that you have a fucking cheek using his name to market yourselves. And as I said above I think he wouldn't give you the steam off his piss.