A Conference entitled ‘New Political Possibilities in Ireland for all Left-Wing Parties in Partnership with Civil Society‘ will be held on Monday January 31st in the Davenport Hotel, Dublin. The conference will give TDs and public representatives from Labour, Sinn Fein and the Left Alliance an opportunity to showcase their economic [...]

It wasn’t the greatest of years for cinema, to be honest, and it’s hard to figure why, unless the planets pulled sufficiently at once to put filmmakers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo to Rome sufficiently off their game. There were certainly no more bad films than usual out there this year (though certainly more than [...]

Enough is Enough
My ghost stepped in from the fog
to the theatre, it fished
out my tenner, was duly admitted
to the warm innards,
and in there it found that
when furious people
already have pittas ciabatas
and memories of hard chewed
grandmothers sodas
to pick from, when
the common old circus,
is rarer than teeth on an egg,
then, well then, to appease it
a good ringmaster [...]

Is Julian Donkey-Boy. Everything About Him Is Scream “Antichrist”!!!!
The always-reliable Bible (New Testament) is tell us that when the Antichrist is come to Earth, everything about him will make people think that he is really the Messiah, and you can see from the picture above that the founder of Wikileak is tick ALL the boxes [...]

The following is a speech I delivered at a public meeting in Dublin hosted by the Communist Party.
The fundamental division in the economic debate is between those who support austerity and those who support an expansionary strategy.
On the one side we have those who believe that deflating growth, wages and living standards is the pathway [...]

The December edition of the Socialist Voice is now available.
The articles in this edition are:
* Break the connection with the euro! [EMC]
* The budget delivered as ordered
* Have faith in the people to rally and resist! [EMC]
* A [...]

Book Review: Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic, Fintan O’Toole, Faber, £12.99
Suppose you were swept to power on the back of a massive popular vote - say something like 80%, the kind of number that usually has the USA and its client states jumping up and down and calling you a leftist [...]

Refoundation
Shine light on the edge of the square
and there a clutch of the creatures
brass necks and ostrich eyes
guffaw grins and slapped sore thighs

walk without waking through the lanes
the baton charge and horseback riders
weighing up with pounds and ounces
how to stop these kilograms

from taking hold and spreading over
the marble halls and archways           now
calculate in museums of [...]

I was never a fan of social partnership. It was based on a flawed economic premise - limiting wage increases in return for income tax cuts; it was hardly a partnership (employers had the legal right to refuse to bargain with workers’ collectively); and it wasn’t terribly social (the social wage never featured - universal [...]

In the weeks leading up to the budget, as the IMF were descending upon us to ‘talk’ and the plans were being laid out to widen the gap between rich and poor, a billboard campaign ran across the country which fitted perfectly into the government rhetoric of the moment. They read ‘Me. You. Everybody. We’re [...]