Boyd Barrett’s comments on Pfizer expose Socialist Worker Party agenda

People Before Profit is a front for the Socialist Workers Party with Boyd Barrett as their poster boy.

Fine Gael Dun Laoghaire Senator Eugene Regan today (Wednesday) rejected Richard Boyd Barrett’s call last night on the Vincent Brown Show for the Pfizer plant in Dun Laoghaire to be nationalized, reflecting as it does the Socialist Workers Party political agenda.

“Richard Boyd Barrett’s master plan to nationalise Pfizer clearly reflects the fundamental policy of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) - State ownership of all means of production. That, along with raising taxes and rejecting the democratic system in which governments are changed in elections, represents its core political philosophy.

“However, Ireland has tried a policy of nationalisation before in the 1930s and we have been living with the costly legacy every since. Russia experimented with the most extreme form of this nationalisation policy from 1917 leading to the greatest form of tyranny ever seen. Today we need nationalisation of our industrial plants as much as we need another term of Fianna Fáil in Government.

“This call for nationalisation would not even find favour with the workers who bore the bad news yesterday of the closure of the Pottery Road plant. They know that what is needed now for Dun Laoghaire is proper intervention by the IDA to assist in finding a new operator for this modern facility.

“With 210 jobs at stake in Dun Laoghaire, and with the intended exit of Pfizer expected to take place between 2011 and 2014, every effort should be made to find a new, export oriented buyer who would keep this modern plant open and retain existing jobs.

“It is no secret that People Before Profit (PBP) is a front for the SWP, which has a socialist agenda contrary to what most people in Ireland believe in, and that Richard Boyd Barrett is the front man generally for the far left. His call for the nationalisation of the Pfizer plant in Dun Laoghaire only serves to confirm that fact.

“The pharmaceutical sector is fundamentally important to our export performance and maintaining a strong manufacturing base in Ireland. A buyer who is focused on export-led growth is what is needed as far as Pfizer, Dun Laoghaire, and job retention at that plant are concerned.”