Comments on The Pensive Quill: Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum.

Right now the Irish working-class, the poor and in...

2013-04-22T16:52:01.452+01:00

Right now the Irish working-class, the poor and infirm are really badly served by social-democratic opportunists who will not challenge the EU ECB and IMF control of our country and economy.

Engaging in divisive 'campaigns' against selective austerity measure instead of fighting the politics and causes of the entire government imposed austerity programme, does nothing to eliminate that programme. If we are to retreive our short-lived independence and control over our natural resources, we badly need a principled Left force. So, I wish the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum the best of luck with your endeavors. Noel Martin

Given the retreat into social-democracy by the maj...

2013-04-22T16:31:19.681+01:00

Given the retreat into social-democracy by the majority of political parties that might have been known as Left parties, there is most certainly the need for a genuine, principled left force to challenge the control of our country, its people, economy and natural resources by the EU and foreign and native Capitalism.

Opportunist political campaigns against a small minority of the austerity punishments that have been imposed on the working-class, poor and infirm are noting more than 'sticking plaster' solutions. They are no substitute for a challenge against the Irish government/EU/ECB politics of mass austerity, nor do the offer a challenge against the causes of the austerity. So, I wish good luck to the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum.

All these ‘isms’ to enlighten and awaken the worki...

2013-03-15T11:44:55.799Z

All these ‘isms’ to enlighten and awaken the working class to their plight! Are terms like ‘imperialism’ not of a by-gone colonial age and an extremely difficult concept to convey to the masses these days? Do we even have ‘the masses’ these days since the majority strive to rid themselves of their working class yoke?
The irony of it all is that you need a bloody middle-class education to understand the damned ‘isms’ in the first place!!!!!!

Good luck and I hope that where others have failed (O’Donnell, Mellows and Connelly for instance) you succeed

Great stuff. I look forward to this unfolding.

2013-03-13T14:33:55.035Z

Great stuff. I look forward to this unfolding.

This is a refreshing post and the message is spelt...

2013-03-13T08:26:11.534Z

This is a refreshing post and the message is spelt in a clarity,which gives us the aims and objectives of this aptly named forum, my advice to Tommy,Hugh,and Eugene is go the whole hog a chairde and establish yourselves as a party in your own right,the timing is right (the previous post must be a glaring example) and I for one really wish you every success,the working class of both communities here north and south need a new beginning and a new vision Peadar O,Donnell was a visionary, that is what we badly need right now.