Friday, Jan 27th 2012
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. And it’s a fascinating poll in its own way because it points to a serious disconnect now between the government [...]
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 came off the train at Heuston. It’s been raining all day but there’s a break in the weather and the [...]
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 and lasting interest of Marx’s theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a ‘pure’ economics, it is [...]
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 and Best Practice, outlining the legal framework, policies and practices regarding the use of custodial measures for children in Ireland and [...]
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 Ministers or TDs about this affair. Here is a PDF copy of the sample letters which you can amend [...]
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 many thanks also to the SP for allowing us access to some documents from their archive) and seems entirely suitable for [...]
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 statistics show US gross savings in the 3rd quarter of 2009 were $1,483 trillion or 10.4% of GDP. US fixed [...]
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 would later leave the Labour party and join the Irish Workers League, which was a communist organisation, the antecedent to [...]
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 their minimal market/political differentiation. The crowing populism of the Examiner still imagines that it hears the Fine Gael Ard Fheis [...]
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 international human rights standards to children detention in Ireland, and details best practice examples from Ireland and other European jurisdictions.
The [...]
