House 6 off College Green is arguably People Before Profit’s most influential albeit informal branch in existence.
The college offices of Trinity College’s Student Union (TCDSU), the narrow left-wing circuit built around the organisation stumbles through each consecutive year through student passivity, barely managing a 10% turnout at election time.
A rotten borough to rule all rotten boroughs none the less the strategic importance of TCDSU is underlined by the rogues gallery of left activists who have trekked through its committees from Ivana Bacik to Lynne Ruane.
At the wheel of the SU this year however has been a slightly less stable pair of (noticeably masculine) hands in the form of James Jenny Maguire, the union’s first (overt) trans president, and ardent PBP affiliate.
Dedicating his her tenure to battling the rising crest of white supremacy on campus The Burkean hears of a good deal of dissatisfaction with Comrade President Maguire in the shadow of the Campanile.
Judged as being too much of a woke hardass even for the left-of-centre university rank and file, Maguire’s failure to win hearts and minds is about as noticeable as a protruding Adam’s apple and a topic of frequent discussions in the group chats around the SU nexus.
TCDSU has survived (even very often medicated) communist headbangers, most notably Gabi Fullam but there is just something about Maguire that is irking even the PBP faithful on campus.
Are even Marxist diehards sick of checking their pronouns and toning down their machismo?
Which part of Marx specified getting verbally pussywhipped by the gender-impaired dregs of society?
Among the potential challengers to Maguie is László Molnárf, another PBP stalwart proactive in both activist and journalist circles on campus having former been in Maguire’s shoes as SU President last year.
Perceiving himself as a Magyar version of James Connolly (he is naturally much more handsome) László fits perfectly into the under-25s Trotskyist archetype. Too much time on his hands and little brains to back it up.
Far from being your average trot whinger however, László is currently angling to be involved with a campaign to make membership of TCDSU voluntary for the student body judging by his social media posting.
Such a campaign, if successful, would gut the Student Union’s legitimacy with erstwhile students, the government, and the college itself and have severe repercussions for its funding.
So, why has Laszlo decided to back a group that wants his former office dismantled?
Perhaps even László, the perpetual student he is, recognises that the uber-woke politics of current SU President Ja- I mean Jenny Maguire are toxic to the student body and the hopes and dreams of the global communist revolution.
László is a lot of things (perhaps the last heterosexual in PBP) and is potentially aware that the vast majority of the uni does not like the SU, as he experienced during his stint in the office.
One wonders if Laszlo’s change of heart potentially originates from the realization that Maguire and co’s commitment to a woke, LGBT-driven, trans agenda, trumps any actual workers’ agenda in so far that it can exist in the modern world.
To quote prominent migration control advocate and armed ultranationalist James Connolly,
“I have long been of opinion that the Socialist movement elsewhere was to a great extent hampered by the presence in its ranks of faddists and cranks, who were in the movement, not for the cause of Socialism, but because they thought they saw in it a means of ventilating their theories on such questions as sex, religion, vaccination, vegetarianism, etc”
Laszlo’s about-face on the TCDSU’s role in uni certainly bodes interesting portents of the left’s future on campus. Whatever his motivation for the new swipe at the SU one suspects unity may be wearing thin at House 6 and student life in general is much the better for it.
Let’s see what happens when the cracks really start to show.
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