Five hundred people took part in the fourth Right to Work demonstration from the Dail to the GP). The majority of those in attendance seemed to have been at least some of the three previous demonstrations.

Speaking at the opening of the rally, James O Toole from the organising committee said, ‘We are the active minority of Irish society – we have shown by our presence at four successive demonstrations that we have the determination to fight. Now we must all move from just consuming politics by letting others do the organising and become activists ourselves. If the 500 people here took leaflets, posters and started to motivate their neighbours and workmates , we could build a network that could really shake this country’.

Des Bonass from the Dublin Council of Trade told the assembled Gardai ‘ You are protecting the wrong people – your pay has been cut and the president of the Garda Representative Authority was only telling the truth when he attacked the corrupt establishment. If you take action, we will support – but only if you take action’.

Rita Fagan, from the Canal’s Communities Project told the crowd that the FF-Green government were trying o shut down community organisations that wanted to stand up for people rights. At the end of her speech she broke into an old US miners song and finished with the rousing cry ‘La Lucha continua’.

Michael O'Brien, from the office of the Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins, called for support for a rally on June 26^th in Dublin that is part of an EU wide protests called by left wing MEPS.

After the speeches the protests went on a lively march through the city centre of Dublin.

It was noticeable that the main component of the march are younger, working class people who are joining the left networks.

At the end of the protest, people queued up to take posters and leaflets to help bring more people out on the streets when Brian Cowen addresses IBEC bosses banquet on June 23^rd.