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(en) Ireland, WSM.ie: Over 15, 000 March against Austerity in Dublin
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Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:38:34 +0200
On Saturday, more than 15,000 people marched through Dublin to demand an end to austerity
and to oppose the State’s transferring of the financial crisis on to the shoulders of the
working class. Organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and the Campaign against
the Household and Water Taxes, the march offered people an opportunity to pressure the
government prior to the budget and to raise the profile of the CAHWT, already the most
popular act of civil disobedience since the foundation of the state. ---- Members of the
WSM met prior to the march at the Ambassador to distribute the new edition of Workers
Solidarity and subsequently joined their union or local campaign branches - red and black
flags flying - as the demonstration filed past. ---- The Spectacle of Hope and Defiance
led the march, using street theatre, notably a Grim Reaper on horseback, to dramatise the
effect that successive austerity budgets have had on local communities’ welfare and
employment infrastructure.
Campaigners against the home charge also travelled in large numbers from around the
country to voice their opposition to the government’s attempted robbery. Spirited chants
from this section of the march included ‘Can’t Pay! Won’t Pay!’, ‘Enda Kenny – not a
penny!’ and ‘Axe, axe, the household tax!’.
The banners of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and associated unions followed the route
down O’Connell and D’Olier Streets and returned via Westmoreland Street to the GPO.
Speakers from the platform echoed calls from the march for a 24hr General Strike and urged
the crowd to attend protests at Leinster House on budget day.
One march, of course, is not enough to defeat austerity or the capitalist system that
imposes it. We must take the combative spirit of today’s demonstration back to our
communities, workplaces and colleges and continue to organize, organize, organize.
There is a large collecgion of photographs from the march in our Anti-Austerity Dublin
march Nov 24 2012 Facebook album
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.555536907805460.149115.132000150159140
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