Friday, Jan 27th 2012
6 per cent of the those who took part in the 2010 Solidarity Factor, incorporating the results of TASC’s 2010 Equality Survey favour raising minimum wage, 29 per cent favour establishing maximum wage and 49 per cent favour combination of both approaches.
Commenting on the findings the equality think-tank’s Director, Paula Clancy, said today:
“There is now [...]
The Irish Anti War Movement (IAWM) and the Peace and Neutraility Alliance (PANA) are organising a two-day Conference on Sept 3-4 at the Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, with the title The Irish Independent Foreign Policy Conference.
This is the first time such a conference has been organised in Ireland and it is our [...]
Swans Commentary: Tony Judt: An Appreciation, by Louis Proyect
Louis Proyect provides an interesting and balanced appreciation of Tony Judt, who he describes as “a courageous and principled social democratic intellectual”.
“Despite being almost totally paralyzed in his last few months of life, he continued to write about his illness and political beliefs, which had been growing [...]
Book review: ‘Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the 20th Century’ by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso, 2010)
This inspiring book examines how women challenged many aspects of public and private life between the 1880s and 1920s, in Britain and in the USA. They did so from different positions in the political spectrum, as liberals, socialists [...]
Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso, 2010) Paperback £9.99 stg.
Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People, an academically minded historical work that nonetheless spent nineteen weeks on the bestseller list in Israel, is a book that is much more incendiary than it ought to be. Sand’s basic thesis – that [...]
This article originally appeared in the August edition of Socialist Voice published by the Communist Party of Ireland. The first part appeared on ILR here. Click here to access the current edition of Socialist Voice.
Neo-liberalism with Irish characteristics
INDEED this is pointed in other ways. As we have outlined, the shift from labour to capital in [...]
Prime minister of Greece: ‘There is real danger in global austerity’ - CSMonitor.com
Interesting interview with Papandreou:
Papandreou: Unlike many countries that ran up debts to bail out their banks in 2008, Greece’s debt has come from years of economic mismanagement — wasteful government spending, an inefficient public sector, chronic tax evasion. Many other developed countries have [...]
The Communist Hypothesis, Alain Badiou (Verso 2010)
Alain Badiou: Key Concepts, edited by A.J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens (Acumen Publishing, 2010)
Badiou’s Being and Event, Christopher Norris (Continuum 2009)
Alain Badiou could be the most important philosopher alive today - time will tell - and his work is gradually reaching English-speaking readers. His magnum opus, Being [...]
The vulnerability of weaker sections of society becomes obvious in times of recession. Already it is clear that those who can least afford further income reductions will be asked once again to ‘share the pain’ in December. It is clear however, that sharing - in the eyes of the Government - is a fundamentally unequal [...]
Over 130 Irish creative and performing artists sign pledge to Boycott Israel
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) ‘Irish artists’ pledge to boycott Israel’ will be launched with a musical performance in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, this Thursday 12th August at 1pm featuring Eoin Dillon (Kíla), Treasa Ni Cheannabhain and Naisrín Elsafty.
The IPSC [...]
