This new pamphlet by Willie Cumming, with contributions by Deirdre Wadding and Cllr. Gino O’Boyle, examines the Mother and Baby Homes story and makes the case for the separation of Church and State.
While there is no doubt that Ireland was a harsh, judgemental, and misogynistic society, the Commission of Investigation on the Mother and Baby Homes suggests responsibility rests “mainly with the fathers of their children and their immediate families”.
This view completely avoids engaging with how such a society developed. The foundation of the Homes was encouraged and sustained by the authorities of both State and Church.
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-Regular inspections and testing in workplaces, particularly the meat plants
-Take the private hospitals into public ownership to increase bed capacity
-Invest in a proper, permanent test and tracing system
-Give people the minimun they need to live on- €350 a week
-Make employers top up the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme to full pay
-For a complete ban on evictions while this pandemic lasts
-Bring in proper rent controls that allow for rent reductions
-Use public land for social and affordable homes.
-Freeze mortgage payments for those in financial distress
-For a border poll to give people a democratic right to end partition
-For a new, radical Ireland that benefits all workers – ‘Catholic, Protestant and dissenter’
-Break the power of the Agri-export industry. Take food plants into public control re--orientate Irish agriculture
-Invest in public transport - Bring in free public transport to get people out of cars
-Create thousands of new Green Jobs through public investment in retrofitting and renewable energy
-Make Ireland fascist free – oppose the message of racist hate
-Close direct provision - end all discrimination
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