Wednesday, May 23rd 2012
The “pretentious little bastard” known as BHL
The photo at the top of this article almost made me puke. To get a flavour this line says it all…."After travelling to Libya in his trademark white shirt unbuttoned to the navel…"
"Despite being dismissed by one Élysée adviser as a "pretentious little bastard", BHL's influence over the [...]
Taken from WSM, about the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2011 in Liberty Hall on the 14th of May. Worth highlighting too that Conor McCabe will be giving a talk at it based on his forthcoming book Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions That Shaped the Irish Economy
This year, for the most part, the meetings [...]
The May Day march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions will take place this year on Sunday 1st May, assembling at 11.30 am at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin, and proceeding to Beresford Place (Liberty Hall). The theme is ‘Resist Austerity’: the need to organise against and resist the cuts to [...]
Review: Democratic Left: The Life and Death of a Political Party | Workers Solidarity Movement
Despite Kevin Rafter's relatively high profile this book hasn't got nearly the same amount of attention that Lost Revolution recieved, probably because it's not nearly as good. As the review says, the Rafter book deals exclusively with the leadership of the [...]
Teachers’ Union unanimously votes to take Natural Resources into public ownership - update | Workers Solidarity Movement
A motion at the annual Congress of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) today calling for the “setting up of a policy study group” within the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to “conduct an urgent enquiry into …. the [...]
New Left Review - Perry Anderson: On the Concatenation in the Arab World
In Lenin’s famous dictum, a democratic republic is the ideal political shell for capitalism. Since 1945, no Western strategist has ever disagreed. The Euro-American imperium would prefer in principle to deal with Arab democrats than dictators, provided they were equally respectful of its [...]
JAMES CONNOLLY sung by Patrick Galvin
‘James Connolly’ sung by the man who wrote the song - Paddy Galvin, recorded in New York, in 1981
Thanks to William Wall for the link.
Originally published on the 4th of April. I missed it at the time, so maybe others did too…
Former internal market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy waited just one week after the requirement that he informed the Commission of his professional activities expired, before he signed a contract to join the board of a bank.
McCreevy stepped [...]
Book Review: Springtime, the New Student Rebellions (Edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri. Verso, March 2011.)
The autumn and winter of 2010 saw the sudden and dramatic re-emergence of radical student movements, with mass student uprisings taking place across Europe and the United States in opposition to both the austerity measures being levelled against [...]
Evidence shows sale of key state assets will cost us vastly more | Tom O’Connor
Tom O'Connor in the Irish Examiner on Colm McCarthy's Report on the sale of State Assets.
"Fundamentally, it is worrying that one man, Colm McCarthy, who has always been called in simply to slash and burn, is given the power to make [...]
