Friday, Jan 27th 2012
…The United Left Alliance, launched 29th November 2010.
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Jodie Ginsberg, Reuters’ woman in Dublin, on TV3’s Vincent Browne Tonight on Thursday 25th November, when asked for her impression of the situation here, said “people are shell shocked”.
They have been for some time, but in little more [...]
It is now possible to begin to draw a tentative balance sheet of the vast movement against the reform (or more exactly, counter-reform) of the pension system that we have seen in France over the last few months. We need to look at the depth and breadth of the movement, the forms that [...]
Yes, the Government has taken a sledge-hammer to the living standards of low and average income earners. But sometimes it’s the little things that expose the venality of policy - the unannounced, below-the-radar, buried-in-a-table-on-page-34-of-an-annex little things.
Last year, when the Government was cutting both social welfare rates and Child Benefit, they increased [...]
Thou Art Weighed in the Balances…
This is the story of a bunny—
add batteries and watch him go
in every unforeseen direction.
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
—
Someone whispers on my shoulder.
Angel? Devil? I don’t know.
Signs and wonders? Choices, choices!
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
—
From Peterloo to Westminister -Mounted police charged at protesters (again)
Book Review: Europe’s Alliance with Israel - by David Cronin - PlutoPress, London and New York, 2011 ISBN: 9780745330655 - £16 in the UK
By its own account, the European Union “sees human rights as universal and indivisible. It actively promotes and defends them both within its borders and when engaging in relations with non-EU countries.” [...]
Critical Legal Thinking › The state of kettling
The resort to kettling as a preliminary strategy of the London Met has left many of us worried – not to mention cold, hungry, and angry for hours at a time. Those of us who have been subject to the pigpen have many stories to share about being [...]
Ireland bailout: the Datablog guide to who will fund it, which countries are most exposed - and who will be next? Visualised | Guardian
There are so many things we wanted to know about where the rescue cash would come from, and how it would work but these were he key things:
• How exposed is Ireland?
• [...]
The Government repeats the mantra - we didn’t touch pensions, we didn’t touch pensions. They’ve been saying that since the beginning of the crisis even though they have cut the incomes and living standards of the elderly (e.g. cutting the Christmas Bonus, co-payment for medical card prescriptions, carbon tax which regressively hits low-income households, etc.).
And [...]
Our public meeting on “After the budget - What to do now? will take place next Tuesday at 8-00pm In Liberty Hall.
Are we reduced to marching up to the gates of the Dáil and marching back down again? Exposing more our frustrations and to some degree the great weaknesses of the left?
How do we [...]
