Galway Worker
| Date: | 1974 |
|---|---|
| Organisation: | Socialist Workers' Movement |
| Publication: | Galway Worker |
| Issue: | [N/A] |
| Type: | Publication Issue |
| View: | View Document |
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Commentary From The Cedar Lounge Revolution
14th June 2010
Many thanks to Mark P for forwarding this document which was produced by the Galway branch of the Socialist Workers’ Movement. It’s a brief four page leaflet, hand typed and dealing with issues like redundancies, the Westcon Ltd. Dispute and Life in a Galway Flat.
What is most immediately striking is the emphasis on local issues to the exclusion of all else - remarkable given the period of time in which it was produced. This doesn’t incorporate to any great extent a theoretical analyses or even make much reference to broader political issues on the island. That said it does contain the following outline of an approach:
A Coisti Oibri na Gaeltachta [which] must be formed as a priority… it must build form the start close links of practical active solidarity with the Galway Shop Stewards and rank and File Committee and affiliate to the National Rank and File Movement. A minimum program on which all workers willing to go on the offensive [to]? The bosses can fight must be worked out in fully democratic discussions to become the basic program of these Committees. Revolutionary Socialists accepting this minimum program must be free to propose within the Committees their strategy for fighting all the basic issues facing the working class in such a way as to mobilize the class as a whole and organize it for the seizure of power in a workers revolution that will build the workers Republic over the bones of the Capitalist Class.
And it stands as a contrast to the more polished documents issued by the Socialist Workers’ Movement during and after this period.
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By: Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen (und nicht so radikalen) Linken « Entdinglichung Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:44:00
[…] * Socialist Workers Movement (SWM): Galway Worker, Oktober 1974 […]
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By: Mark P Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:35:32
In reply to PJ Callan.
That website seems to belong to the socialist societies supportive of the Socialist Party in Queens, Jordanstown and Coleraine. Presumably this isn’t the same “socialist society” that was in existence in 1991?
(Although I suppose, given the turnover of student politics, that the Coleraine socialist society could have been taken over or won round at some point between 1991 and the present day).
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By: EamonnCork Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:48:44
Folks, does anyone know who the ACAB were? I’ve got a photo here of a guy in full punk regalia with an anti police brutality slogan on his jacket and ACAB written on top, circa 1985. Just wondering if anyone might know what ACAB stands for and who they might have been? Thanks.
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By: Ramzi Nohra Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:53:47
In reply to EamonnCork.
where was the photo taken?
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By: sonofstan Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:54:29
In reply to EamonnCork.
You’re joking, surely?
Well known football chant, at least in my neck of the woods…..
‘All coppers are bastards’
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By: Joe Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:01:58
In reply to sonofstan.
Ah EamonnCork. The joys of growing up in innocent rural Sligo. ACAB is still seen graffitied on the odd wall in Dublin. As a teenager, I agreed with it as a slogan but the rightward drift with age has softened my cough.
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By: sonofstan Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:09:34
In reply to sonofstan.
Still current -was chanted as recently as Bohs V Glentoran last April when the Gardai waded into the Glens fans to confiscate a Union Jack – and got the sympathetic chant of A-C-A-B! from us.
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