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So I just got a flyer through the mailbox from "Congress" (0.6 cm font size) and "Irish Congress of Trade Unions" (0.1 cm font size) asking me to "ACT!" with a national demonstration.
Now as previously discussed I think that the attempt to use "congress" rather than the full title in headlines is there to give them the picture of a legit organisation representing all the workers and not just a segment and to offer themselves as an alternative to the exsting polictics structure.
Now reading their manifesto on the other page of the flyer it really reads like a flyer composed by election spin doctors and a party's manifest rather than a union.
So classicly the labor party has been allied to the Labour movement and trade unions but why do I get the feeling that "Congress" has replaced the labour party?
The manifesto read like class warfare (you were paying for the party but you were not invited...) and would make Karl Marx proud.
So, what do we think, has "Congress" replaced the Labour party and will be see them forming a new party running in elections?
And by the way: No thank you I'm not going to join you for your demonstration because the solutions you offer are just hogwash, but thanks for offering.
Now as previously discussed I think that the attempt to use "congress" rather than the full title in headlines is there to give them the picture of a legit organisation representing all the workers and not just a segment and to offer themselves as an alternative to the exsting polictics structure.
Now reading their manifesto on the other page of the flyer it really reads like a flyer composed by election spin doctors and a party's manifest rather than a union.
So classicly the labor party has been allied to the Labour movement and trade unions but why do I get the feeling that "Congress" has replaced the labour party?
The manifesto read like class warfare (you were paying for the party but you were not invited...) and would make Karl Marx proud.
So, what do we think, has "Congress" replaced the Labour party and will be see them forming a new party running in elections?
And by the way: No thank you I'm not going to join you for your demonstration because the solutions you offer are just hogwash, but thanks for offering.