Friday, Jan 27th 2012
This article was originally published on #CrisisJam.
Since the foundation of the Irish state, trade unions have had to strategise with successive centre-right Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments. Despite the formal association between the Irish Labour party and some trade unions, it is Fianna Fáil that most trade union members have traditionally voted for. [...]
EU hauled to court over secrecy in India trade talks | Reuters
Good work from Corporate Europe Observatory, who are bringing the EU to court about their unwillingness to disclose what they said to Industry about opening up the Indian market to them.
"Transparency campaigners have hauled the European Union's executive to court for withholding documents [...]
Mondragon Movement in Spain as Discussed by Kathleen Lynch
Kathleen Lynch made the argument on Tonight with Vincent Brown last night that capitalism has failed and that the Mondragon co-operative movement in Spain provides a brilliant example of how to do things better. 27mins in
MONDRAGON Corporation is the embodiment of the co-operative movement that began in [...]
An Interview with Ashis Nandy.
Prof Ashis Nandy is a well known social thinker and social psychologist based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He has been an outspoken critic of science, modernity and secularism. His writings since the early 1980s have been extremely influential, in conjunction with Edward Said’s critique [...]
The February issue of the Socialist Voice is out now.
The articles from the current issue listed below can be seen on the site, or in a PDF here.
• Repudiate the debt!
• Will an election change anything? [EMC]
• Political collapse, and the alternatives [CMK]
• Illegitimate, odious, and perpetual! [NL]
• Further banking losses likely [NL]
• We have rights only in so far as [...]
Latin America Solidarity Centre’s Thursday night talk this Thursday, the 17th Feb will be held at 7.30pm in the meeting room above Connolly books in Essex St, Dublin. The speaker, Stephen Sefton, who has worked for a number of years on a project in Esteli, Nicaragua, will give a country update. Stephen worked for Comlaimh [...]
Today in Berlin our “Taoiseach-elect” Enda dealt in a most business-like fashion with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, described as the most powerful politician in Europe at the moment. A bullish Enda said after the meeting was over:
“I made it perfectly clear to the chancellor that, from our point of view, the corporation tax and [...]
What a week. So limited were the parameters of Tuesday night’s TV3 Future Taoiseach debate, it’s a wonder the papers succeeded in eking more than a tweet’s worth of commentary out of it. CrisisJam felt the Empty Chair put on an excellent show. Student nurses and midwives took to the streets to protest against government [...]
Crowbar
She jiggles her one year old on her knee
and smiles like Magda Goebbels,
of whom she has never heard.
If you don’t have central heating,
more fool you for having no respect
for yourself. She is not au fait
with trade unions. Her laughter,
a bag of rattling crowbars
and always at someone else’s
expense. If you didn’t get paid
no one to blame
but [...]
We Promise an Electrifying Campaign!
If you are say to anyone, “Who was your favourite ancient Greek philosopher born in the 4th century BC and who was belong to the Cynic school and who live in a barrel,” seven times out of ten they will answer you “Diogenes of Sinope.” Because he is. Everyone is know [...]
