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Jump To Comment: 1 2Indeed this pattern of sellout is quite common.
In Germany in the 1990s, the Green's who were originally quite left wing betrayed their core principles, moved to the right, went into power and were subsequently decimated in the elections that followed.
The Labour party in Britain completely sold out, attacked the social welfare state, went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In other countries the main socialist parties where they were in power also sold out once in.
The Green's in Ireland also moved from a modest Left position to the right, into power and more or less decimated.
In these local and European elections, we see that FF -the party that ruined the country rises once again as do the Greens. In the next Dail elections we can expect Labour to do badly, but the elections after that, no doubt they will rise on short memories and false promises.
And apparently Labour in the 1970s previously sold out on their core constituency only then to slowly rise again as memories faded.
The real question is why are the electorate so consistently fooled and not just in Ireland but in practically every other country and the other half of the question is why do all these parties sell out on their principles. Does someone hold a gun to their head or what? Or is it that the apparatus of the state and corporate media somehow capture or co-opt them in such a way a combination of corruption & bribery, threats, threat of scandals, power of business and banking hold them in check?
"It may have been possible to 'punish' Labour through the elections but actually ending and then reversing the cuts won't happen at the ballot box but on the streets and in the workplaces."
Andrew is right! The problem is that much of the soi disant Left dont recognise this. Instead the SP/SWP engage in electoralism. Electoralism cannabilises this pair of organisations. Getting elected on an opportunistic basis becomes the aim of the SP/SWP.