COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND

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COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND

James Connolly House, 43 East Essex, Temple Bar, Dublin 2:

2nd June 2007

Dear comrade.

The current attempts by the political establishment to cobble together a government from either a combination of political parties or with independents provide a unique opportunity to push important questions onto the political agenda: questions which received little or no attention during the recent General Election. In this regard I would like to highlight two issues in particular.




Firstly: The question of the use of Shannon Airport by the US Air force and the CIA in its ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the campaign to end of this practice.




Secondly: The question of Rossport and the ownership and control, not just of the Corrib gas field, but also of all natural resources in and around our country.




Now is the time to develop an intense lobbying of those parties and individuals who may or may not be part of the next government. By this I mean the Labour Party, Green Party, Sinn Fein and progressive independents.




Fianna Fail and all the establishment parties will concede that class sizes are too big, the need for more money in health etc. Such statements will cost them nothing more than words.




In order to open up the political ground we believe that key political questions need to be addressed and pushed. Political questions that push the establishment up against their political masters either in Washington or Brussels and expose their compliance with imperialism, that their own selfish interests and status are of greater concern to them than those of our nation and people.




We believe that these demands would advance democratic accountability to the people and secure real advance and have the support of the majority of the Irish people. Below are the e-mail addresses of the TDs that should be lobbied. Please be respectful and address them in a manner that you yourself would like to be addressed. Let us not miss the opportunity to push forward.




If you are a member of another political organisation or group draft your own letter pass on this or your own letter to friends and supporters. Try and make it a people’s campaign.




Yours respectfully.







Eugene Mc Cartan

General Secretary




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[Papa C.]

Odd. I'd expect any communist party to be addressing social issues first, such as housing the homeless and low income families, inequality, education, financial security of the poor, housing, infrastructure. While the issues above are important, I think any socialist party should always seek to speak on behalf of those who live in poverty or relative poverty and that those issues should be first on the agenda. The fact that their is no mention of these problems in the statement is worrying.