We need to revive spirit of Emergency

EMOTIONS are naturally running high at the moment at the prospect of our future being determined by an outside body such as the IMF. We need to be clear about our aims because the financial situation has already extended beyond our national resources, which have been hazarded somewhat imprudently to date.

The real question is surely this: who matters more to us, the poor of Ballymun/Dublin 1, etc, or foreign bankers? The answer seems to be foreign bankers. In truth, this is the answer we have been giving for a long time now.

The poor come low down in our list of political priorities. We need a new democratic kind of revolution to reverse our present priorities.