r/theIrishleft • u/schmeoin • 2d ago

Ireland’s Far Right: Britain’s Latest Export

https://youtu.be/_nh0gMFsjTY?si=CDqS7Pvuy2f1J7a5
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u/Negative_Chickennugy Edit Flair 2d ago

The tricolour and the union jack... Waving on the same flag pole...

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u/FrontApprehensive141 United-Ireland Socialism with Zuppyist Characteristics 1d ago

And that's all they are. A Tan construct designed to split the Irish working-class. Colonisers by another name.

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u/dearg_doom80 1d ago

The rise of the Irish far right is because of a complete failure of the Irish left unfortunately . A massive gap has been left that the right is filling because the left has abandoned the working class and become very middle class.

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u/Tiny-Poet-1888 1d ago

Agree

There's a scramble within the radical left to be "top dogs" between certain parties and this has opened the flood gates for the far-right sentiment to grow within communities

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u/Assad_Dayfor 1d ago

Much of the Irish left is now a pro nato OP.

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u/OperationMonopoly 1d ago

A full detailed post on this would be great.

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u/AwareExplanation785 1d ago

And in that shift, they've become very pro establishment too.

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u/AprilMaria 1d ago

The pro establishment shit drives me plain fuckin cracked. The care referendum for example. We went care: no, family: yes & had to essentially beat off the rest of the left. Every fuckin morning, I’d be fighting with feminists insensed at the culchies opposing the care referendum (us) & I’d have a second round by lunch time. Fair play to Rosa though they eventually saw where we were coming from but there was one fucker from some crowd of gobshites in Galway that was the bane of our existence throughout. A posh nasty little bastard that was lucky she wasn’t in front of me in person.

Then in the 11th hour CPI, Rabharta & some one of the trade unions joined the call, finally listening to disabled people, not long after that with mere days to the referendum I think the Socialist Party did too.

All of it, every square inch of it was simply not wanting the government to seem more progressive than the left, & not wanting the far right to have a symbolic victory. No one need deny it I spent a month fighting with yer organisers this was the reasoning.

What has happened? Now the far right are going around using this as evidence that the left are in bed with the government against the people.

& it all comes back to a central thing:

Never fuckin trust FG & FF on social issues there’s a catch 22 somewhere. If they don’t have to be bullied, bate, & dragged kicking & screaming to something it’s a Trojan horse.

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u/folldollicle 1d ago

Agreed, there once was a time when the trade unions were busy in working class areas lifting the people up.

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u/Fearless_Skirt8865 1d ago

We really have no far right in this country, that's based on my own experience spending time in Eastern Europe. If you spend time in the Dublin city centre, but particularly Dublin 1, you'll see non-native beggars plying their trade unencumbered. That just would never happen in a country with a meaningful far-right presence.