Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Those to whom I refer should declare that in every constituency and local authority area the parties which are imposing the property tax will be faced with political candidates representing the mass movement of opposition to said tax, to the bank bailout and to the disastrous austerity agenda that is ruining our society in order to bail out bondholders and the European financial market system. In that way, in the coming six, 12 or 18 months - however long it takes - we will see an unprecedented movement of mass opposition among workers and other people to this fundamentally unjust measure of a scale which has never before been witnessed in Irish society. One would be obliged to go back to the campaign run by small farmers against land annuities in the 1920s to find a possible parallel with the resistance which is already apparent and which will continue to emerge in the coming months. The aim of that resistance is to secure the abolition of this odious imposition on a people that can bear no further burdens in the interests of bailing out the European and Irish financial market systems.

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