Left Wing Republicanism vs Right Wing Republicanism

Simple question really. Is there a division between a lot of them in terms of political ideaology and has there ever been an attempt to find common ground between them? Right wing republicanism held a lot of sway in that their views were shaped pretty much by their religious fevour from their catholicism and if I am right (or wrong I apologise if I am) there was a move to more left tendencies from the view that British occupation was imperialism. Is there still that gulf there ?

The Rise of the Far Right in Europe - Wolves in Sheeps Clothing?

With the recent surge seen in the far right in Europe, are they promising people something they can deliver on or are they going to fall flat? In the recent French elections, Marie Le Pen promised to look at the rights of workers and played the left wing card hoping to appeal to those whom might have otherwise voted for the left. Golden Dawn came to power in Greece with the promise to deal with the immigration issues that they have made out to be a bigger deal than it is . Golden Dawn saw their figures jump from .29% support to 6.7% or thereabouts on the back of playing the anti immigration card, they vowed to rid "Athens of the stench" of what is immigrants. In Finland the True Finns are surfing in on a tide of anti European sentiment and anti immgration policies. Couple all of this with well known antics of such parties in Ireland and the BNP in the UK and other far right parties in Europe and we may be setting ourselves up for a dangerous rift in society. Already some of these parties are well known to have violent links and links to neo nazism. Are we allowing these wolves to continually dress in sheeps clothing?

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Finns

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/06/far-right-threat-extremism

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9250885/Greek-immigrants-urge-parties-to-isolate-far-Right-Golden-Dawn.html
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Irelands Newest Right Wing Party - falls flat on its face !

Much hilarity ensued when Michael Quinn, father of eight and leader of Irelands (lol) newest right wing party was ousted from his position of the leadership of the anti immigrationist Democratic Rights Movement . John Kavanagh suddendly announced on Quinns usual rant against the "invasion of Ireland" that he was taking over the mantle but Michael was welcome to come back at the helm. Lets not beat around the bush, both Kavanagh and Quinn made a laughing stock of themselves and again proved why the right wing in Ireland is hilariously inept. Riddled with infighting and playing the race card only attracts the sort of scum you do not want. Lads, give up politics and stick to drawing the dole . Was delighted to see them ,ahem, "give up their protest " at the British embassy .Fuck it Im being too nice.


Your party was a load of old bollocks lads, fuck off back to Limerick and never darken the doors of Irish politics again. Your policies are utter scummery. There is a reason Im a socialist. So I can tell people like yourselves, you are not fuckin wanted ....


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