May day "workers" protests

Because they're 'activists'....

Best of luck to them, we have to stop things such as 'increasing workers insecurity'

pickarooney wrote: »

Because it's a national holiday.

I always that was a brilliant ironic joke.

Can we think of any other holidays where you mark something by not doing it at all?

Permabear wrote: »

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Jesus, the disingenuity from this post. You knew well what he meant :rolleyes:

I've the same respect for those ****wits as I do for those that destroyed the Lidl in Jobstown.

None.

Don't get me wrong, workers should be protected from abuse from unscrupulous individuals and corporations, but if your argument means you resort to smashing **** up, its probably best to left people who can use their words.

I was at Mayday in London yesterday. It was full of lunatics. If we had a day off here for it (as we should have) then we could mobilise some of the average trade union membership so it would be normal people instead of mad old men with long hair shouting at me for refusing to buy "Workers Hammer".

I've been to May Day in Havana and Italy and it's normal workers and their families. In Ireland it would be handy if they organised an event or something as opposed to a march through town.

FTA69 wrote: »

I was at Mayday in London yesterday. It was full of lunatics. If we had a day off here for it (as we should have) then we could mobilise some of the average trade union membership so it would be normal people instead of mad old men with long hair shouting at me for refusing to buy "Workers Hammer".

I've been to May Day in Havana and Italy and it's normal workers and their families. In Ireland it would be handy if they organised an event or something as opposed to a march through town.

what do you think the day off on Monday is for

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

INdeed. The main difference is that we have it on the first Monday of May, rather May the 1st itself.


What percentage of the protesters/marchers do you think were involved in the violence? I'm sure it was a small minority.

I don't think I said they were all involved.

I was condemning ****wits.

If an ideology offers a rationalization for a type of unacceptable behavior, it will often (though not invariably) attract followers with that kind of moral weakness. Such formulas as “Selfinterest is the greatest virtue” or “Your anger is not a personal failing, but a healthy response to social injustice” or “All human relations are power relations” will exert a gravitational pull on selfish, hostile, or dictatorial personalities.

- Jonathan Rose "The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes"

unfortunately explains a lot of the people who agitate on behalf of de wuuuuuurkers

FTA69 wrote: »

... so it would be normal people instead of mad old men with long hair shouting at me for refusing to buy "Workers Hammer".

Gotta love the Sparts. You should have bought their paper - it always has some pure gold in there. They believe some mad, mad stuff.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

An event would be good. Those nutters with long hair, beards and Che Guevara tshirts ruin those events though. There’ll invariably be a megaphone brought out, and some work-shy loser spouting on about Marx. People don’t like that sort of stuff.

I was at one in the north of Italy and after the march there was like a giant picnic with all the oil refinery workers and car plant workers and their family with a few local bands on a stage and generally a good day out. It was a political event but one that was owned by ordinary workers not a shower of mad balloons. There was a group called the Communist Party of Great Britain - Marxist Leninist there yesterday and they looked like Gareth from the Office and the lad you wouldn't sit next to in school cos there was a whiff off him.