Armageddon Sunday morning
& to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges
King James Version, Revelation, 2.12
I dream of the collapse
of everything we hold dear
probably on a Sunday morning
things will just stop

the last man will walk
the suburbs
on feet of brass
& will be defeated

DCTV programme on the seminal Irish feminist journal, Banshee, which was produced by Irish Women United in the 1970s.
Contributions from Anne Speed, who was a member of Irish Women United, and from Clare Butler and Angela Coraccio of RAG (Revolutionary Anarchafeminist Group). I give some historical background. The programme was recorded in February of [...]

Details of the 2010 FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference have just been announced for those interested in attending. Full program and list of speakers is available here.
The booking form, which you have to complete and return to TASC is available here.
Registration forms should be returned to contact@tascnet.ie.
The Conference - entitled “Towards Recovery” - is being organised jointly [...]

This is an interview published in El Público today with Luis García Montero and Joaquín Sabinaby that Hugh Green translated this morning and posted on his own blog. I’m cross-posting the full post with the interview and an introduction with his permission.
While we might get enthralled by cement mixers at the expense of the [...]

Pretending to be Taoiseach

Nearly all politicians are
dummies and mimics,
as are most junkies and drunks.
Also in nature predators
learn off their roles
by long-settled rote
and so do their victims.
Dissent is a kind of seeing deformity
that shows a way out.
This much I’m used to and sure of.
Last night I strolled
the Liffeyside boardwalk
being reminded, as usual,
by every new scene of [...]

Europe wide day of action in protest against the cuts and austerity measures being imposed by the EU Commission and carried out be national governments.  Please assemble outside the Anglo-Irish Bank  headquarters St Stephen Green at 12-30 and march to the Dail.  It has been poorly organised and advertised by the TU movement but everyone [...]

There’s a whole new narrative around exports at the moment, in the Irish Times anyway, which is effectively a mouthpiece for the government’s economic policy at present and as good an indicator as any of where the Right’s head is at when thinking about this particular stage of the Irish depression.
Michael Taft wrote about this [...]

William Slattery of the financial services company State Street, and a member of the McCarthy Committee, has offered some advice to the nation in its time of need. With unemployment climbing ever higher, with 250,000 jobs already shed since the start of the recession, he proposes that the largest employer in the [...]