Book Launch : Breaking Dependency with author Eoghan O'Neill

Ireland's transformation over the past half a century is regularly presented as a success story - from poverty to prosperity, mass emigration a “poster boy” for successful economic development that should be the template for other nations to follow?

The book pulls away the veil of the slick Irish government PR spin and exposes the deep economic and political weaknesses that lie at the heart of this social and economic dependency strategy.   The book interrogates that dependency not as moral failure but as a structural feature of capitalism in Ireland.

The road from dependency to sovereignty is neither automatic nor inevitable.  It must be fought for, organised, and defended and ultimately owned by the working class.

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