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Student March a Turning Point

category national | public consultation / irish social forum | opinion/analysis author Saturday November 06, 2010 00:27author by Bryan Wallauthor email Bryanwall85 at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

The events of the student march on Wednesday the 3rd of November were a turning point in the attitude of the state towards the general populace. As we look down the barrel of what is likely to be the harshest budget in the history of the country, the Government can no longer contain the anger of the Irish people. What happened on Wednesday was proof of this.

After closely following the events of Wednesday’s student march in Dublin from the relative comfort of my small abode in Cork, for reasons which I will get into at a later date, I believe that students in Ireland, and Irish society at large, have reached a turning point in its relationship with the Government and its various arms. For students, Wednesday was all about voicing their protestations at the Government due to upcoming budget which is undoubtedly going to put even more financial pressure on the majority of third level students. What most of us did not expect is that it would turn violent and riot police would be deployed. This is the turning point to which I am referring. In reality, what took place was a microcosm of Irish society contained within small group of students/activists who decided that they needed to make a statement of some kind in the hope that someone, somewhere in the Dáil will pay attention. Whether or not their motives were pure is irrelevant to the point i’m trying to make.

Everywhere you go in this country, someone is angry at the Government while others are simply scared. The overriding emotion however is anger. Anger at paycuts, increased taxes, cutbacks in vital services; the list goes on and this is even before the upcoming draconian budget. But none of this has been shown on the streets. The only thing that the majority of people have done is complain yet, as I have mentioned, they are furious with the Government. Wednesday however showed that this anger can in fact reach the streets and actually, quite literally, reach into the heart of the Government; in particular the Department of Finance. As I was watching it unfold via the internet, it was as if all of the anger in this country had finally shown itself in the form of a small group of students/activists.

The simple fact is that the Government needs to be reminded that they should fear the people and not the other way around. We have nothing to fear from the Government but it is quite obvious that they are extremely fearful of the fallout from their cretinous mishandling of this country. The deployment of riot police and the brutality they inflicted on behalf of the Government shows this. I had read a number of months ago about members of the Gardaí engaging in riot control training, in preparation for a “winter of discontent”, and now they have gotten their practise in. They too have had their own policing microcosm.

What happened on Wednesday really was a turning point. From here on in, the Government will no longer be able to control the anger that is reaching boiling point around the country. They can no longer placate the Irish people with platitudes and promises of corners being turned. A great man once said that “you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”. Here’s hoping.

author by V for vendettapublication date Sat Nov 06, 2010 06:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yeah..there is a palpable feeling in the air. A tension in the psychic commonality if you will. Last wednesday's protests seem to have given the cowering irish people the insight they needed to see that this government will even stoop to brutally assaulting and abusing people's kids by proxy if that is what it takes to get what they want from us for themselves and their shady financial masters before they leave office.

This raw protest and the paint throwing has shown people that we CAN protest in a way that has an effect that politely holding up signs and marching can never have. We need to SCARE these complacent bastards. they need to see us outside their homes, outside their meetings, outside the dail. getting MAD AS HELL and NOT WILLING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Sat Nov 06, 2010 17:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I hope you're right.

I'll believe it when the students march in support of of their contemporaries excluded from the academic sanctuary. Or when the trade union membership demand the dis-employed get access to a share of the work and the reward trough so that all have enough before before any get overtime.
I wonder if they managed to elicit a climbdown on fees and surcharges would they maintain their new-found radical chic buzz.

Dont get me wrong. Its good to see a stirring in the long somnolent student body, but I suspect there may be more education required than is customary on the curriculum. Our best hope is that the government keep alienating this sector of the population until more general solidarity emerges.
If so, they will educate themselves.
We are talking about the tiger cubs generation.Techno-savvy, globally linked, free access to radical music(as well as all the pap muzak), but also raised to know its all about memememe getting mineminemine through the orthodoxy of neo-liberal conformity.

Early days.

 
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