There’s been so much news in the past week or two that it’s difficult to remember that the Sunday Business Post ran a poll the results of which were published on the 22nd of November….
Monthly Archives For November 2009
Lights of the City
It’s 2pm on a Sunday afternoon and I’m standing in the Croppies’ Acre in Dublin. Down the street the SWP are holding a conference in the Ashling hotel where Wittgenstein stayed in ‘48 after he…
Exploring Marx's Capital (Historical Materialism Book Series) | AAAARG.ORG
Exploring Marx’s Capital (Historical Materialism Book Series) | AAAARG.ORG This volume, originally published in French under the title Que faire du Capital?, offers a new interpretation of Marx’s great work. It shows how the novelty…
Detention of Children in Ireland
New report aims to inform best practice in the detention of children in conflict with the law The Irish Penal Reform Trust has today launched a new report: Detention of Children in Ireland: International Standards…
A Litany of Abuse, Abuse, Abuse – Part 1
Update: Simon McGarr of the Tuppenceworth.ie blog has set up a Facebook group to argue for the diplomatic expulsion of the Papal Nuncio from Ireland. He also provides two sample letters to send to either…
The Socialist Party of Ireland 1971 – 1982
Pdf of SPI 1973 Report of the 1st national congress here: SPI73REPORT As a means of opening the discussion on the SPI the accompanying document was donated by Mark P (for which many thanks and…
Key Trends in the World Economy | The US Falls Behind China in Terms of Capital Creation
Key Trends in the World Economy | The US Falls Behind China in terms of Capital Creation The impact of the financial crisis has however driven US saving precipitately downwards. The Bureau of Economic Analysis…
Joe Deasy: Irish Marxist
The following clip is from an interview with Joe Deasy, who was born in 1922 and who met and worked with Jim Larkin Snr in the 1940s. Both were Labour councillors on Dublin Corporation. Joe…
Turning TINA
Yesterday’s editorials of The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner are politically instructive, that is to say, they illustrate a situation in which politics cannot take place. The differences in tone tell us much about…
IPRT to Publish New Report on the Detention of Children in Ireland
The Irish Penal Reform Trust will publish a new report: Detention of Children in Ireland: International Standards and Best Practice. The report, which will be launched Monday 30th November in Dublin, considers the implementation of…
Is a Crying Shane!
Behind You!!!! I am not having been bothered to watch the useless football match last week between Ireland and France in Paris, France, if you remember, because I was say already back then that France…
The Downgrading of Equality and Human Rights: Assessing the Impact
The Equality and Right Alliance conference, A Fairer Ireland: Equality and Rights at the Heart of Recovery is on today in Dublin. According to the Conference program, this morning’s speakers included Dr Kathy Walsh and…
Pue’s Occurrences | Historian Brian Hanley on Today’s Strike
Pue’s Occurrences | Historian Brian Hanley on Today’s Strike Brian Hanley, author with Scott Miller of The Lost Revolution has some thoughts on the issue of whether those working in universities and colleges should join…
Irish Examiner Has Made Itself the Sworn Enemy of Public Sector Workers
Everyone knows the Irish Examiner is a Fine Gael newspaper and everyone equally knows that even if Fianna Fail is being obnoxious about public sector workers, Fine Gael would be even worse. The incessant cry from…
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