[Marxism] Ireland's Green Party Sell Out

["John oneill" <John.oneill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A Greenwash for Bertie Ahern
Ireland's Green Party Sell Out
By HARRY BROWNE 
Dublin. 

Ireland's Green Party has agreed to go into a coalition government with
the centre-right Fianna Fail party -- despite having spent 10 days in
negotiation failing to get the larger party's agreement on several
crucial issues. 

A hastily arranged Green conference secured a solid 86 per cent majority
of party members for the coalition deal, an outcome earnestly desired
and passionately sold by almost all its most visible politicians --
three of whom will pick up ministerial office, while others pick up
various government appointments. 

The word "Betrayal", however, has echoed through the party and the wider
left, as the Greens go into a government that will continue to
facilitate thousands of US troops at Shannon Airport; that will send a
motorway through an archeologically sensitive area near the Hill of
Tara; that will continue effectively to privatise the country's
disastrous health service; and that will prop up the leadership of
prime-minister Bertie Ahern despite ethical and financial questions
hanging over his head (as Eamonn McCann has discussed here on
Counterpunch). 

In full at;

http://www.counterpunch.org/browne06142007.html



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