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Multi-national
corporate greed has won out as 400 Irish glass workers
in Dublin feel the sting of loosing their livelihoods.
Once again it is the capitalist mantra of “profit
over people”. After respectful negotiations by
the workers to make concessions to save their jobs
the multi-national parent company pulls the plug anyhow.
A slap in the face of the workers who sought accommodation.
A peaceful workers ”sit in” to receive a
fair and rightfully earned severance package failed
to sway the bosses from trying to cheat and stop the
workers aims.
Where
is the cry of outrage? This should be the rallying
and wake up call for the Irish working class to unite
and fight for their rights and justice. No amount
of concessions or negotiations was to save the workers
for they were just the pawns in the new global economy
of profit takers. The bosses had bought a new plant
in Italy where more profits could be had for the few
at the expense of the many. This is the same parent
company that idled shut a union shop in England only
to resurface as a non-union shop later. Who has been
made to answer?
A new Irish Citizens Army of workers should take the
action to make those accountable held before public
scrutiny and demand full regress and accountability
to the injured workers. The Leinster House politicians,
who are sworn to have and uphold the rights of the
Irish people, (even the working class) are clearly
negligent in their duties. The glass plant closing
has a dreadfully direct affect on all the Free State
by adding to the already swamped social services and
the environment, as this was the only glass recycler
in the 26 counties. The impact on the environment
will suffer as the cost to recycle will escalate and
monies will be harder to find to fund. Not to mention
the mental hardship and social and medical stress
that accompanies these and all betrayed workers.
The wave of multi-national companies in Ireland do
not hold Irish interests at heart. It is the mere
exploitation of the working class that drives their
hunger. The only loyalty they have is to the jingle
of silver. When the milk runs dry they will just find
another cow and put the old out to pasture. The line
must be drawn. Only revolutionary change can bring
about an equality-based society focused on liberty,
fraternity and the rights of all people. Irish Republicanism
in the vein of Connolly and Mellows can be the vehicle
to bring about economic justice, which in the end
can be the road towards Irish freedom. Until National
Sovereignty is placed before the Irish people and
power smashed from the claws of Westminster, Stormont
and Leinster House will that freedom be at hand. Freedom
will not be had in the current Belfast Agreement that’s
for sure. The current corporation failings in the
States show capitalist greed run amuck. And in the
end it is always the workers who take it on the chin.
None of the major political parties in Ireland support
true change and are irrelevant in the eyes of Irish
Republicanism as they hold their power by accepting
the status quo. of Brit partitionist Statelets! Sinn
Fein Poblachtach has accepted the challange by leading
with ideas and actual blue prints towards a lasting
peace called Saol Nua and the creation of a new governmental
structure based on a 4 province Democratic Socialist
Republic which is Eire Nua. The Irish Republican Socialist
Party realize that freedoms cannot be had till Irish
National liberation is achieved and they bring a needed
voice to the table with fresh ideas that should be
part of the debate. Why settle for less? This is where
the future lays.
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