Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Irish Home Rule? | The Nation
Any departure from the austerity script would require a level of political mobilization so far completely lacking in Ireland—or for that matter in Britain, where George Osborne remains determined to follow the Irish example on the theory that only by starving the state will the private sector be freed to [...]
This is a slightly updated version of an article I wrote for the latest edition of the Scottish independent Marxist journal Frontline.
Ireland is now the centre of a European economic crisis, as the events of the last few weeks have made startlingly clear. The continuing rise in the cost of borrowing on the bond markets [...]
Public anger is growing. Three austerity budgets and the banking guarantee have deepened rather than resolved the economic crisis. And now, in defiance of all the evidence the Government are going to continue with these failed policies with more vigor and determination that ever before.
The four-year plan and Budget 2011 will push thousands of families [...]
When journalists arrive at Government Buildings for the launch of the 4-year ‘plan’ they will have many questions on their mind. Here’s one that should be asked.
The Irish economy has suffered from three years of a domestic demand recession. Domestic demand is the measurement of all components of our GDP excluding net exports. It comprises [...]
Some of My Best Friends are Male Prostitutes
The ancient Chinese use to have an ancient Chinese blessing, which was go like this: May you be in the Interesting Times. The Interesting Times was the first ever invented daily newspaper, based in Beijing, which then was called Peking, and before that Constantinople. It was consider to [...]
The anger I’m referring to is not about the meltdown in my broadband, my modem, my phone line - which has kept me off-line for the last two weeks.
After the anger, the rage, the disappointment - we are still left with the question: what do we do. Just because the [...]
Every time we hear a minister, an economist or a journalist talking about the economic catastrophe, we hear them talk about the pain to be suffered by the tax-payer. We should listen carefully to the language our masters use, because language has a way of turning things into reality.
Tax-payers will pay for the catastrophe, they [...]
This Government, like the Irish economy, is holed below the water line and is sinking. The life-raft being constructed by the EU and the IMF is not designed to solve the deepening problems facing our people but only to save the rich and powerful, in particular the German, French and British banks, as well as [...]
IMF: The Power and the Folly | New Internationalist
The fundamentalism of the IMF lies in its religious adherence to the idea that the untrammelled free market is the solution to every economic problem. Its own equivalent of a holy commandment is the idea of 18th-century economist Adam Smith that the profit motive acts as an [...]
Rise like lions!
This blog is dedicated to collating and sharing information on resistance being organised by people up and down the country, in mass and individual capacities, against this corrupt government, the toxic banks and the IMF/EU bailout.
We hope that to motivate people by showing them that individuals and groups across the country are mounting [...]
