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Vol. 4- No 8
Wednesday 21st March 2007
E-mail newsletter of the
Irish Republican Socialist Party
1) Editorial
2) Coalition Against Water Charges
3) 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TREATY OF ROME
4) RSYM Statement on Noel Maguire
5) Trade Union News
a. ATGWU insists ESB break-up will not benefit consumers
b. Solidarity with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
6) Letters
a. The Perspectives of the IRSP
b. Is the SEA prepared to engage with the IRSP?
7) What’s On?
Editorial.
This edition carries material from the Coalition Against Water
Charges and we advise all activists to read and absorb the material
therein. All over the North meetings have been held on this issue
and there is no doubt that it is one current issue that has the
potential to unite people as never before. Unfortunately there are a
number of so called “campaigns” on the water issue set up so that
this or that group could claim “leadership” of the struggle. Real
leadership is however something that is not achieved by
self-proclamation but is earned during the actual course of not one
but many struggles. Some groups on the left seem to think that they
and they alone are the real leaders of the class struggle and refuse
to even acknowledge the existence of other socialists or Marxists or
republicans. They do socialism a grave disservice. We say this not
in a spirit of political sectarianism but in a spirit of regret. The
forces for socialism are so small, squeezed, as we are between two
major sectarian blocks that the prospects might seem bleak to reach
out to the majority of workers and convince them that the struggle
for a socialist republic is worthwhile.
But the IRSP has optimism in the working class and we approach each
issue from the perspective of does this or that action or position
advance or hinder the forward march of the working class. For that
reason we reject nationalism. As republicans we bitterly resent
those in the PRM who embraced the same narrow nationalism that
republican had for generations rejected. Irish nationalism today
stands as a reactionary tool to divide people just as unionism does.
That is also one of the reasons why we rejected the Good Friday
Agreement. We certainly do not deny the progressive nature of the
struggle for an independent Ireland but we have always argued that
the struggle for independence neither can nor be achieve without the
struggle for socialism. We reject any struggle for a capitalist
united Ireland.
In saying that we recognise that there is a huge task ahead of us
all to win the majority of workers to our socialist perspective. We
certainly will not do that by embracing the same kind of political
sectarian approach that others have. We have made political
criticism of other republican and socialist groups. But that has
never been a barrier to us co-operating on issues on the ground. For
in struggle is how we all learn.
For that reason it was good that Fred Weston from the International
Marxist Tendency could briefly address an Ard-Comhairle meeting of
the IRSP and share his groups perspective on Ireland today and pass
on some of the lessons learnt from international struggles.
We cannot ignore international issues and that is a reason why we
include material on the European Union. National independence under
capitalism has all but disappeared as the advances of Globalisation
transform the world. The lessons of struggles worldwide have to be
absorbed by the militants of the Irish working class. We may act
locally but we need to think globally.
Coalition Against Water Charges
The government’s case for charges.
The government set about the introduction of water taxes a number of
years ago. Their arguments for the introduction of the charges were
as follows:
• That the Water Service was in desperate need of upgrading.
• That the service was rundown and dilapidated, many of the pipes
having been laid over 100 years ago.
• That leakage of clean water was close to 30 per cent.
• That the demands on the service, because of population growth
and the growth of new water based appliances, dishwashers, washing
machines etc were going to increase.
• That the European Government directive on water, demanded a
certain standard in cleanliness of water and this had to be
implemented by 2010.
Few people could disagree with the idea that the water service needs
an upgrade. All sorts of difficulties exist with the present system:
Sewerage is pumped out into the sea, water is sometimes of poor
quality and leakage is high.
The government argued that they had no funds to upgrade the service
and would need to find funds from another source. They suggested
charges and consulted on this.
At the consultations, the government argued:
• That we, the public, didn’t pay for water.
• That there was no allocation in the rates bill for water.
• That according to the European Framework Directive the water
service had to be self-financing.
That the only way to get the funds required for an upgrade was to
introduce charges
The government’s case is flawed.
• We do pay for our water through the regional rate.
•We pay approximately 40% of our regional rate to the water service.
•While there may no longer be a direct allocation on the rates bill
that is where they get the money for the service.
• The European Framework Directive does not say that the water
service has to be self-financing; all it says is that there had to
be an adequate contribution.
• There are any number of ways the government could get the funds
to pay for the upgrade of the water service. They have found
billions for other projects.
• The government is committed to the privatisation of public
utilities.
•That is the real reason behind the introduction of the charges.
The government has said a number of times that it considers
privatisation a more efficient and cost effective method of running
public services.
There is no evidence to support this view if anything all the
evidence points in the other direction.
When privatisation takes place:
• The service becomes less efficient.
• There is less money spent on infrastructure upgrades.
• Staff numbers are reduced.
It is the view of Communities against Water Taxes that:
• Water is a basic human right and that it should be provided for
all citizens through a publicly owned service.
• It should not be sold off to major multinationals or even locally
owned companies where the sole reason for running the service
becomes a commitment to maximising profit.
In England and Wales where privatisation has taken place the water
service has increased prices dramatically.
The quality of water is poor and many people have to reduce the
amount of water they use to reduce their water bills.
This often means not flushing toilets, having baths or showers and
generally putting their health at risk
•We are suggesting that people refuse to pay their water bills.
•We know this is a big decision for many but it is the only decision
that people can take which can defeat the government’s campaign.
•The government is going to introduce any number of measures to
force us to pay.
•At the moment it is not a criminal offence to refuse to pay. The
government is looking at introducing new legislation to take people
who don’t pay to the magistrate’s court where we would need a
solicitor to represent non-payers. CAWT is preparing a legal fund
if this eventuates.
The more people who don’t pay the more likely it is we can win!
We at CAWT are saying that no-one should have to pay twice and that
water should remain in public hands.
We oppose Peter Hain’s privatisation agenda.
We are suggesting that a mass campaign of non-payment will force the
government to find the money somewhere else.
Water Charges were defeated in Dublin and
The Poll tax was beaten in the UK using this method
Coalition Against Water Charges
Water Tax is a Double Tax
Yet we already pay for our water through our local rates 37% of our
rates bill currently goes to the Water Service. That’s why water
charges are a double tax. The average household at present pays £225
per year towards water and sewerage services. If the Water Tax is
not beaten water charges will rocket. The water company will be
privatised and the demand for rising profits will lead to massive
water bills. No household will be exempt from water bills — not
pensioners, the unemployed or those on benefits. The reduced tariff
for people on benefits could be scrapped in 2 years time.
The Water Tax can be beaten but not without a battle. If households
refuse to pay, money cannot simply be deducted from wages. This can
only be done by taking people through the courts. If we stay united
they cannot take tens of thousands to court. Amass non-payment
campaign would make the water tax dead in the water! We urge
households to unite and ensure that no-one is left isolated. This
means building a grassroots campaign of non- payment in every
community. Non-payment and a legal campaign defeated the poll tax.
40% of people refused to pay. The courts and the system were totally
clogged up and paralysed.
The Water Tax cannot be implemented if tens and hundreds of
thousands of families say: “The
Water Tax is a Double Tax — Don’t Pay Water Charges!”
H OUSEHOLD WATER bills averaging £100 per year will begin coming
through your door on 1st April 2007. In 2 years this will treble to
£334, at least. THE Water Tax can be beaten. The poll tax was
defeated in Britain in 1990. In Dublin water charges were abolished
in 1996. Both were defeated by a mass non-payment campaign and a
legal campaign to defend non-payers.
Don’t Pay Water Charges
email: watercoalition@btconnect.com www.waterchargesnonpayment.com
(1) 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TREATY OF ROME - TEN POINTS WORTH
BEARING IN MIND
Anniversary: Sunday next, 25 March 2007
1. THE EU'S MYTH OF ORIGIN: The myth of origin of the EU is that it
was a peace project designed to make war impossible between France
and Germany. The truth is however that it was the American
Government's insistence on German rearmament to meet the needs of
the Cold War that precipitated the European Coal and Steel Community
in 1950, which was the foundation of European integration. The
pooling of coal and steel under a supranational authority, the
precursor of the Brussels Commission, was crucial in overcoming
French hostility to rearming its ancient enemy. Jean Monnet,
America's man in the affair, saw it as a way of pursuing the project
for a supranational Europe, which he had been nurturing since World
War 1. It was the Cold War, not the EEC - later the EC and EU - that
kept the peace in Europe between the end of World War 2 in 1945 and
the end of the USSR in 1991. During that time neither America nor
Russia would have permitted a war between the member States of
either rival bloc. After 1991 war broke out again in Europe, in
Yugoslavia and Chechnya.
2. THE DREAM OF WORLD POWER OF THE EU'S FOUNDING MEMBERS: The six
founding members of the original EEC had all been, apart from
Luxembourg, imperial powers, with colonies and dependencies in
Africa and elsewhere. France, Germany, Italy, Holland and Belgium
were defeated and occupied during World War 2. After that war they
found themselves in a world dominated by the two superpowers, the
USA and USSR. Their traumatised political classes were still
nostalgic for world power. They decided that if their countries
could no longer be Big Powers in the world on their own, they would
seek to be a Big Power collectively through the EU/EC. One formula
for understanding the EU is this: Take five broken empires, add a
sixth one later - Britain - and try to make one big neo-colonial
empire out of it all.
3. THE NEED TO REPATRIATE LAWS FROM BRUSSELS TO THE MEMBER STATES:
Two-thirds of all legal acts in the 27 EU Member States now come
each year from Brussels. Only one-third originates in each Member
State. This shows the loss of national democracy and independence
entailed by membership of the European Union. The first step in
remedying the EU's widely admitted democratic deficit is to
repatriate policy-making powers from Brussels to the Member States.
Any new EU Treaty should provide for this. Despite much rhetoric
about subsidiarity from the EU Commission, there is not a single
example in the 50 years of European integration of a national power
that was surrendered to Brussels being repatriated. What is known in
EU jargon, as the "acquis communautaire" is sacrosanct. That
is why some call it the "doctrine of the occupied field". What
Brussels has once occupied, stays occupied.
4. THE PUZZLE AS TO WHY NATIONAL POLITICIANS WELCOME THE GROWTH OF
EU POWERS: Government Ministers and aspiring Ministers welcome the
transfer of powers from the national level to the supranational
because it means a big increase in their own personal power, at the
cost of a diminution in power for their own Parliaments and fellow
citizens. At national level if a Minister wants to get something
done, he or she must have the support of that country's national
Parliament. Remove that particular policy area to Brussels however,
where laws are made primarily by the EU Council of Ministers, and
the Minister in question, who is part of the executive arm of
government at national level and responsible to an elected
parliament, becomes a powerful legislator at EU level - one of an
oligarchy, a committee of lawmakers, making laws for 500 million
people as a member of the exclusive club of the EU Council of
Ministers, which is irremovable as a group. Simultaneously senior
national civil servants, who prepare EU laws in interaction with the
Commission bureaucracy, are freed from questioning by their fellow
citizens. There is an intoxicating increase in personal power for
the politicians and bureaucrats concerned, and a corresponding
reduction in the power of their fellow citizens, national
Parliaments and countries.
5. THE EU CANNOT HAVE A STABLE DEMOCRATIC BASIS BECAUSE A EUROPEAN
PEOPLE, AN EU "DEMOS", DOES NOT EXIST: Democracy means rule
by the people, the "demos". There cannot be a political
democracy without a people, a "demos", a national community,
a "we", whose members feel sufficient solidarity and mutual
identification with one another as to induce minorities freely to
obey majority rule. Minorities are willing to do this because they
regard the majority as their majority, that is, as belonging
to their own people and national community and as having the
democratic legitimacy and authority which derive from that. This
normally requires that people are able to communicate with one
another in a common language, and share the same territory, culture,
historical experiences etc. That is why democracy can exist at the
level of Europe's ancient national communities. There is however no
European people or "demos" that transcends and is superior to
Europe's many nations and peoples, and one cannot be artificially
created from above by Brussels. The EU can therefore never be a
genuine democracy. Cooperation between Europe's countries can only
be built from the bottom up, with the free agreement of the peoples,
not from the top down at the behest of political and economic elites
who aspire to build a European superstate which they see themselves
as running.
6. THE EURO CANNOT ENDURE WITHOUT A POLITICAL AND FISCAL UNION; YET
THE LATTER IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE THE NECESSARY EU SOLIDARITY DOES
NOT EXIST: All independent States have currencies of their own and
all currencies belong to independent States. A currency is necessary
to enable a State to influence its rate of interest and exchange
rate in the economic interests of its people. The interest rate is
the domestic price of a currency and determines the cost of credit
to citizens. The exchange rate is the price of the currency in terms
of other currencies and is a key influence on a country's economic
competitiveness. Abolishing one's national currency and replacing it
with the euro means that a country surrenders control of its rate of
interest and exchange rate to the European Central Bank in Germany,
which is independent of all government control. The ECB's prime
concern is not the welfare of the country in question, but what it
decides is in the interest of the eurozone as a whole. In practice
this means the interest of the eurozone's largest members, Germany
and France. The euro is a political project designed to give the
European Union one of the key features of supranational statehood,
using economic means that are quite unsuitable for that purpose.
"The two pillars of the nation State are the sword and the currency,
and we have changed that," boasted Commission President Romano
Prodi in 1999. However there is no example in history of a lasting
currency union that was not part of one State, and therefore also
part of a political union and fiscal union, with the common taxes
and public services which all national States possess. The existence
of such common taxes and services serves to compensate to some
extent the poorer regions of a national currency union for their
inability to balance their payments with others by utilizing their
own interest rate and exchange rate. Yet there is no possibility of
the EU having common taxes and public services because the
solidarity that is needed to underpin these - the solidarity that
induces richer regions to finance transfers to poorer ones within
each individual country - does not exist at the EU level. The
euro-currency therefore cannot last. It is only a matter of time
before the strains that stem from its member countries being unable
any longer to control their own interest rate or exchange rate must
force some countries to leave the eurozone.
7. THE EU'S EROSION OF NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP: All independent States
have evolved over generations the right to decide who are their
citizens, in order to maintain their labour standards or their
social cohesiveness as communities. They are free to decide for
themselves the rules they apply for giving rights of citizenship to
people born in other countries. But in the European Union such
fundamental features of citizenship as the right to residence, to
work, to buy property, to receive social maintenance when dependent,
and to vote in local elections, are automatically extended by
supranational EU/EC law, following a transition period, to whatever
proportion of the population of the other 26 member countries
decides to settle in a particular country. Thus rights of EU
citizenship displace key rights of national citizenship as part of
the effort to turn the EU into a supranational State, in which
European citizenship and allegiance to a new country called "Europe"
will transcend and be legally superior to one's national citizenship
and allegiance.
8. THE PROPOSED EU CONSTITUTION AIMS TO MAKE US REAL CITIZENS OF A
NEW EUROPEAN UNION IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL FORM OF A SUPRANATIONAL EU
STATE: The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe
proposes to do this by five precise legal steps: (1) This Treaty
would repeal all the existing EU/EC Treaties and thereby replace the
existing EU and EC with a new European Union that would be founded
like any State upon its own Constitution; (2) It would transfer the
powers and institutions of the existing EU/EC to this new Union,
which would have the authority to decide all areas of public policy
for its Member States either actually or potentially; (3) It would
give this new Union legal personality so that it could act as a
political entity in its own right, distinct from and superior to its
individual Member States, whether as regards their domestic or
foreign policy. At present it is the EC, as part of the current EU,
that has legal personality; (4) It would make the Constitution of
this new Union and the laws made under it superior to the
Constitution and laws of its component Member States; (5) It would
make us all real citizens of this new Union, and not just nominal or
honorary EU citizens as at present, so that EU citizenship would be
constitutionally superior to the citizenship attaching to one's own
country or State. That is why the proposed EU Constitution or any
replacement Treaty based upon it that would seek to replace the
existing EU/EC by a new Union with its own legal personality should
be opposed by democrats across Europe, irrespective of their views
on other things.
9. WHY PEOPLE SHOULD SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT IN DEFENCE
OF NATIONAL DEMOCRACY: The thrust of the EU integration project is
to erode the democracy of the nation States of Europe.
Internationalism presupposes the existence of nations. The champions
of EU integration are seeking in effect to erode the democratic
heritage of the French Revolution - the right of nations and peoples
to self-determination - in order to clamp a form of financial
feudalism on Europe. Hence democrats in every EU country, whether
they are on the political centre, right or left, have a common
interest in taking part in the international movement in defence of
national democracy against the EU.
10. FURTHER EU ENLARGEMENT DOES NOT NEED AN EU CONSTITUTION:
Enlargement of the EU beyond the 27 Members provided for by the
2002 Treaty of Nice can be done in the Accession Treaties of the new
States concerned, as was done with previous EU enlargements. It does
not require institutional changes or a Constitution that would
centralise the EU further and make it even less democratic.
(These points have been issued by the National Platform EU Research
and Information Centre, 24 Crawford Avenue, Dublin 9, Ireland; Tel.:
00-353-1-8305792; Please feel free to copy, pass on and adapt them
as desired, without any need of reference to its source.)
RSYM Statement on Noel Maguire 20/3/07
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement support entirely the
campaign to re-patriate Noel Maguire, an Irish Republican POW denied
his human rights as a political prisoner.The collaboration of the
Free State government in this regard has been sickening to say the
least. It is open season for collaboration with the imperialist
forces of Britain and the USA.
The case of Noel Maguire is just one case in a long line of
political hostages, all of this at a time when the struggle for
Irish freedom is something, we are told, that is a thing of the
past.
The Good Friday Agreement is a cul-de-sac and compromise that
ensures the Noel Maguire case is not an isolated incident. There
will be many more men in the position of Noel as long as Britain
occupies the north of our country.
We wish Noel, and all Irish Republican prisoners of war the best for
the future. Their struggle is ours and we will campaign on their
behalf.
Ni saoirse go saoirse lucht oibre.
Trade Union Issues
ATGWU insists ESB break-up will not benefit consumers
[Published: Wednesday 14, March 2007 - 07:54]
One of main unions at the ESB has claimed the Government's plans to
break up the company will be bad for both workers and consumers.
Earlier this week, Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey announced
plans to transfer control of the national grid infrastructure to a
new semi-state company, Eirgrid.
Mr Dempsey said the move would boost competition and benefit
consumers.
However, the ATGWU says the move is unjustified and will not reduce
consumers' bills by one cent.The union, which is due to publish its
formal response to the plan today, says breaking up the ESB will
damage the company for no good reason and workers will not stand by
and allow it to happen.
Tr
Zimbabwe: Solidarity with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions - for
human rights and the rule of law
The crisis in Zimbabwe has its origins in the misdeeds of President
Mugabe's autocratic regime and its mismanagement of the economy. The
economy is on the verge of collapse, with officially confirmed
hyperinflation at 1,700% per year. The country’s GNI shrank by 54%
in 2000-2005 while unemployment today stands at over 80%. Protests
against the regime have been led by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade
Unions (ZCTU - the ITUC affiliate in Zimbabwe), student, youth and
church groups. Since the disputed re-election of President Mugabe in
2002, there has been a steady deterioration in human rights and the
economy, reducing Zimbabwe to a land of penury and starvation. In
2005, more than 30,000 arrests were made and hundreds of urban
dwellings were demolished under the guise of "a clean-up campaign"
aimed at workers in the informal economy who had been increasingly
turning to the trade unions. In September 2006, a large number of
trade unionists and human rights activists were arrested and
brutally assaulted following a peaceful protest over the state of
the economy and shortages of essential medicines. Alarmed at the
growing willingness to oppose the regime openly, including from
within the ruling ZANU-PF party, the regime has banned political
protests for three months, especially to prevent protests against
the Government's economic failures. But the ZCTU and others have
responded by stepping up their criticisms and protests, and a
general strike has been announced for 3-4 April. Over the weekend of
10-11 March, the security services violently attacked opposition
leaders and on 13 March, raided the offices of the ZCTU to seize
materials about the strike.
=====================================================================From
the Media
Letters
Dear Comrades,
The comprehensive coverage and detailed analysis in The Plough, Vol
4, No 7, was interesting and heartening. With the votes counted in
the latest Assembly elections the perspectives of the IRSP stand
fulfilled almost to the letter.
As you correctly point out (and predicted in your earlier material)
the electorate in the north could grasp only the immediacy of the
objective situation and were overpowered in this sense to embrace
the sectarian camp they felt was best placed to represent their
particular interests.
The present epoch is undoubtedly a difficult one for the working
class in the 6 counties for obvious reasons - indeed it is unique.
However, the skillful exploitation of the people by the myriad of
personalities will in the last analysis prove to be false.
You are correct when you make the point that the lefty groupings are
in real danger of becoming “sects”. Similarly, the coming period
will vindicate your well-founded criticism of the Good Friday
Agreement as events unfold - a position the IRSP have held for
years. The consciousness of the class, as is always the case - is
lagging behind events to a certain extent.
Yet, where candidates like Eamon McCann in Foyle and Peggy O’Hara
stood on an uncompromising, bold, socialist programme, the
favourable electoral results were an indication of a changing mood
which will develop as the crises unfold in the future.
Your editorial, while far from exhaustive, covered all the
points necessary at this stage and offers concrete proof that there
is no substitute for the correct theory, ideas, principles and grasp
of history when applied to the objective conditions. It was mature
and developed, shining through and exposing the compromise politics
being served up to the people of the north as being the only way
forward at this time.
In fact, the way forward as proposed by SF and others will prove
backward. I was also pleased that IRSP resisted merely denigrating
Republicans and Nationalists but clearly and honestly documented the
truth about the facade of promulgation explaining why it is doomed
to fail the working people of Ireland.
Yours for socialism,
Kenny McGuigan
Glasgow
Member of National Union of Journalists (Personal Capacity)
Dear Editor
Re"editor's reply" to my letter about the SEA in The Plough vol4-7
You end with a question: Is the SEA prepared to engage with the
IRSP? At the moment I can only answer this in personal capacity and
my answer isn't any different from what it would have been one, two,
three years ago: Of course I would engage with anybody who is
wanting a broad left alternative and overcome the hindering,
backwards sectarian divide. I can't give the answer for the group
SEA but will make sure this communication gets to the members and
supporters.
Communist regards
Hermann
What’s On?
Thursday 22 March, 7 p.m. International Women's Day event
Doffers and Dockers: Belfast Industrial Struggles, 1906-7
Speaker: Theresa Moriarty
(Author of biographies of Delia Larkin of the Irish Women Workers'
Union and
Mary Galway of the Textile Operatives' Society of Ireland).
Chairperson:
Dawn Purvis (T&GWU). Linen Hall Library (Fountain Street)
Organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
We Won't Pay Campaign Meetings
Larne
7.30pm Monday 26th March
Larne Leisure Centre
Bawnmore, Belfast
7pm Wednesday 28th March
Millgreen Youth Centre
Shankill Rd, Belfast
7pm Thursday 29th March
Shankill Leisure Centre
Coalition Against Water Charges
c/o ,4-6 Donegall Street Place Belfast 028 90247940
email: watercoalition@btconnect.com www.waterchargesnonpayment.com
Sat. 31st March @1.00pm
Assemble: Art College, York Street, BelfastDemo
Coalition Against Water Charges
Don’t
Pay
Water
Charges
BLOWING THE LID ON THE WAR ON TERROR
PHILIP AGEE
Former CIA Agent talks about his experiences in Latin America as an
undercover operative
With a screening of a documentary film by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto
Ruiz:
‘ONE MAN’S STORY: PHILIP AGEE, CUBA AND THE CIA’
(32 mins, Irish-Cuba Co-Production)
Friday, 30 March 2007
@ 1.00pm
Venue:
Room 209
Peter Froggatt Centre
Queen’s University Belfast
&
@ 7.00pm
Venue:
Linenhall Library
17 Donegall Square North
Belfast
BT1 5GB
Everyone Welcome
Sponsored by:
Free the Miami Five Campaign,
Belfast Trades Council
Centre for Global Education
& Cuba Support Group Ireland
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effort go towards the IRSM and it’s various projects.
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/irishshop/index.html
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