The Party's Over - Socialist Labour Party
| Date: | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Publication: | Gralton |
| Issue: | Aug/Sep 1982 |
| Author: | Dermot Boucher |
| View: | View Document |
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| Subjects: | Socialist Labour Party |
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Commentary From The Cedar Lounge Revolution
28th August 2014
Another excerpt from Gralton (and many thanks to the person who is forwarding full copies of same for the Archive). This time an article from Dermot Boucher, of the National Executive of the SLP on the demise of that party.
The article is useful, being written at a time of economic turmoil, but this final paragraph from it is of particular interest:
Significantly, it now seems likely that few ex-SLP members will seek to join another political party, preferring to join the growing ranks of the organisationally unattached. This will reinforce that phenomenon of recent years whereby activists prefer to involve themselves in single issues campaigns and ad hoc organisations, rather than submit to the tedium and discipline of a political party. Given the continuing failure of the Irish Left to create any sort of credible political alternative is it any wonder that eh working class prefers to place its trust in parties of the Right, even at a time of economic crisis and deepening recession.
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