The election changes nothing - effective resistance needs to be built

andrew
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:18:35 +0000
Capitalist crisis, Election2011, Miscellaneous, National, Opinion, Analysis, Andrew N Flood

Today, in an even more meaningless exercise then normal, a minority of the population of Ireland will choose between two almost identical options as to who will implement the ECB / IMF austerity plans for southern Ireland. Outside of this plan the wealthiest 1% will continue to set economic policy tomorrow as they did yesterday and have throughout the last decades. The electoral circus we are now going through provides the rest of us with the illusion of control even though deep down almost everyone acknowledges the ritual as having no real impact on what policies are actually implemented.