Oscailt25th Desmond Greaves Annual School 2013A Forum for Debate
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I’ve been jolted into re-assessing the old Left. <br />
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The Trots are just mouths. I can see that now with the disintegration of the electoral and Parliamentary pact, the ULA<br />
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Writers like Desmond Greaves seem to have a more coherent, holistic vision Ireland rooted in the application of Marx’s ideas to the conditions the broad socialist movement finds itself in at that moment. <br />
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The first speaker, Anthony Coughlan, is the face of anti-European integration politics all my 25 years. He has consisted argued that the absorption of Ireland into a quazi-federalist entity negates all the efforts of Irish people’s Independence struggle. <br />
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IT IS TO RAY CROTTY WHO WE HAVE TO BE THANKFUL THAT WE HAVE REFERENDA FOR EUROPEAN TREATIES. <br />
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This intellectual, farmer, and member of Coughlan's Sovereignty Movement challenged the 1986 Single European Act.<br />
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The Single European Act was the first significant piece of legislation to come out of Brussels since the R. o. I. joined. The sitting Fianna Fail Government (republican my arse) had no intention of allowing a referendum. The propaganda was spun that this was of no great consequence, merely a tidying-up of some existing informal procedures; a few necessary tweaks to EC treaty texts. Crotty successfully argued that sovereignty of the Irish state was affected and as such there should be a referendum. <br />
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Greaves’ writings and the analysis of this particular strain of Irish socialism differs from the manufactured “consensus” about the nation-state being an anachronistic concept. The state apparatus are there for the benefit for vested interests in that society, few on the Left will contest that. Connolly argued that unless the state he was fighting for in 1916 was socialist in nature than the capitalists would become the new rulers. But …….<br />
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The level of sovereignty that a nation has vested in that state carries with it more democratic accountability. The EU sees the concentration of political power in smaller and smaller groups of people. The erosion of sovereignty in the Irish state over the past 40 years has resulted in the lessening of the capacity of Irish people to determine our foreign policy, our various food policies (agriculture, fisheries) and has facilitated the importation of a turbo-charged spirit in capitalism. <br />
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With regard to the 1986 Single European Act, Crotty points out that the Act set up a framework for a single Central Bank for Europe. He found that buried in the text of the Single European Act were provisions which would lay the groundwork for a European Central Bank and monetary union, something which the political establishment denied. He argued that among other things article 29 of Bunreacht na hEireann was affected, and therefore if this was a genuine republic then a vote by the people should be held. He believed that Single European Act represented a fundamental shift in powers that were up until then vested in national governments.<br />
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That’s a Left I’m interested in. We have a rich socialist heritage in this country.