budget have only postponed public spending cuts and/or Democracy, Irish section tax increases until after the -of the Fourth international world's fastest growing, the Irish State is now widely make gains during the boom reported as the world's most defend themselves during This means an CHASUR the inevicable downturn. in attacks on working class living standards required to political because the trade talist enterprises. It is an escalation the working class have swallowed whole the neo-liberal agenda that has is ill prepared to resist.
The left has criticised the been advanced by the Statel and employers. failure of many working peo- Aer Lingus pic to grab Incir share of th booming economy and has Nowhere can this be seen repeatedly called for more clearly than in Acr action in pursuit of higher Lingus. wages as the way forward. faced with over 2,000 redunhis was inadcquate dur- dancies, a ware treeze and a ing the boom and will be deterioration even less useful now. their conditions. All this conditions before the airline is sold oft will be less forgiving of poor to the private sector where strategies but may also com- its future is anyone's guess. per a reckoning with tae contral issues. union leaders is not to close The most important task the airport through indusfacing workers during the mat acaon, castly possible as was to use relatively witnessed in the Ryanair distavourable economic condi- pute in 1998, but to demand tions as an aid to challenge 30% or the airline for trade union leaders so employee share ownership instead of the 4.9% on otter.
Outlook ment of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), in the south