Fightback is the printed Magazine and online journal of the International Marxist Tendency in Ireland. The website was launched in July 2009 and has recently passed 600,000 hits. Fightback carries regular updates on the political and industrial situation throughout the island of Ireland and probably the best international coverage on any Irish website on the left. The historic defeat of FF and the
Greens in the last election reflected the extent of the economic and political crisis in the state. The FG/Labour coalition will be a government of crisis which will come under pressure from the bosses on one side and from the working class on the other. Labour must break the coalition and fight for the interests of working people. In the North the effects of public sector cuts will mean the loss of up to 48,000 jobs.The trade unions have a duty to fight against the cuts and to provide a mass working class political alternative to the sectarian blind alley of Stormont. There is only one majority in the North - the working class; and it needs a political expression.
