Friday, Jan 27th 2012
One of the things that is regularly repeated now when the current financial crisis in Ireland is being discussed is the ideological stupidity of the Fianna Fail/PD government during the “Celtic Tiger” years. Fintan O’Toole in his book Ship of Fools, provides some background to why there was a serious uplift in the economy in [...]
New Left Review | Eric Hazan: Faces of Paris
Eric Hazan, author of The Invention of Paris on… Paris
"The political division of Paris goes back a long way. In the nineteenth century, between the anonymous night-time barricades of November 1827 and the seventy sunny days of the Commune, the list of demonstrations, riots, coups, uprisings [...]
Audio: How do we know who will struggle? | Workers Solidarity Movement
The left talks a lot about class but in a manner that often confuses more than it clarifies. In this audio recording of a Rethinking revolution seminar at Seomra Spraoi Paul Bowman wonders just how useful the classification obsessed approach of the left actually [...]
Last night’s Tonight with Vincent Browne featured Michael Taft, CIT economist Tom O’Connor, and Labour Finance spokesperson Joan Burton. The topic was the recent ERSI report which predicted that the economy would see Ireland moving out of recession (in terms of positive growth) in the second half of 2010. Needless to say, the devil is [...]
That Outfit is Sooooooo Last Year!!
Until very recent, I was labour under the misapprehension that a Syllagism was a dessert with sperm in, but it transpire that, for the first time, I was wrong. Is not a syllagism, but a syllogism, and what it is is a logical argument which is construct in such a [...]
In discussing mental health, we tend to focus on issues such as the distress and suffering of mental health service users as well as the most appropriate manner in which we might respond to their needs. The human rights of mental health service users are also a significant issue and have been assuming a more [...]
Why Education Workers Should Vote No to the Public Sector Agreement | Workers Solidarity Movement
From a leaflet currently being distributed by the Vote No to the Public Sector Agreement campaign within the Irish National Teachers Organisation. As well as arguing why the agreement is bad for education workers in the public sector it also explains [...]
World’s Worst Countries For Jobs | Forbes.com
“Ireland’s unemployment rate worsened the most dramatically over the last year” according to Forbes citing OECD data. Ireland comes in at number one in its list of the World’s Worst Countries For Jobs.
At the Hands of the State
A TG4 documentary from a number of year back on human rights abuses in Ireland in the 70’s and the Sallins train robbery.
In 1977 Amnesty International published a report condemning the government of the twenty-six counties for its stance on human rights. The case of Osgur Breatnach was one of [...]
I’m reposting this in light of the resignation of Kathleen McMahon as governor of the Dóchas Centre and her highly critical comments about the Irish Prison Service in her letter of resignation. In today’s Irish Times report on her resignation it mentions a chilling aspect, about how the Irish prison service is developing policy based [...]
