A FAIR AND JUST SOLUTION TO IRELAND’S CRISIS STILL POSSIBLE BUT MASS PROTESTS NEEDED URGENTLY

In a statement, the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) has said that the arrival today of IMF/EU officials and imminent intervention of these bodies into the running of the Irish economy, would make a bad situation worse and accelerate Ireland further down a disastrous path of neo-liberal ‘shock therapy.’

PBPA said that the ‘free’ market economic doctrines championed by the IMF/EU were precisely those that had been pursued by the Irish government over the last ten years and were the same as those that had wrecked the international economy.

PBPA said that more intense doses of the same doctrine would cause intense suffering for ordinary Irish people and further undermine the possibility of genuine economic recovery.

PBPA said the Irish government had sacrificed Irish democracy and economic well-being on an altar of ‘free’ market profit and greed.

PBPA said there was now an urgent need to mobilise Irish civil society onto the streets to drive the government out of office and stand up to the ‘vultures and bullies’ of the IMF and EU.