Fianna Fail, the main party of the ruling class since it formed its first government in 1932, was crushed in the Irish general election and a bloc of revolutionary socialist TDs elected.
All four of the parties in government, or soon to be in government, are determined to pass the Finance Bill, against which there is massive popular anger, before the upcoming general election.
Obituary of a man who, as editor of the Irish Democrat from 1918 to 1948, and writer of many books, influenced Irish left-wingers in the run-up to the 1968-9 crisis possibly more than any other.
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