Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Over the weekend, William Wall brought this 2002 article by David Graeber, which has recently been republished on the site Autonomy Against Barbarism, to my attention. It reminded me of John Green’s review of Graeber’s “Possibilities” which we put up in 2008. The reason AAB are posting Graeber’s NLR article now is because of the [...]
[From Workers Solidarity Website]
Contents:
Project 2013 - Re-building a trade union movement from below
Peripheral Vision
Capitalism & the price of fish
A promise broken: Obama & Guantánamo Bay
Obama + Internet + Money = HOPE
OBAMA - change you can’t believe in
BACK to the FUTURE: Imagining the Future in a post-revolutionary world
Review: VIDEOCRACY: Broadcasting Control over the Italian Psyche
Review: Moments [...]
Ireland’s examination by the UN Committee against Torture is being broadcast live right now here and embedded below. More details here.
The examination takes place this morning, Mon 23 May, and resumes tomorrow afternoon, Tues 24 May. Both sessions will be broadcast live online.
Full details about the Irish government delegation present at the UN’s Palais [...]
Erin Weir | Do Wages or Profits Lead Growth?
“Stockhammer’s main policy implication is that the European Commission should be encouraging collective bargaining, minimum wages, progressive taxation, social spending, etc. rather than promoting competitiveness in terms of unit labour costs. One could easily extend this analysis to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, given that [...]
The Government has got itself into a bit of bother over this whole pension levy lark. But the complaints from the pension industry are a bit hard to take. In this regard, contributions from two leading pension experts - Gerry Hughes and Jim Stewart - are worth noting. [...]
The Irish election returned five TDs for the United Left Alliance, with 2.8 per cent of the first preference votes. But this victory for the Left is only part of a bigger picture of political change, writes Brendan Young, in an article commissioned by Scottish Left Review. Republished here with kind permission of the author [...]
Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm | On a loan and a prayer
If the PIIGS cannot inflate, grow, devalue or save their way out of their problems. The only alternative is to shift quickly to Plan B - an orderly restructuring and reduction of the debts of these countries' governments, households and banks.
This can happen in [...]
There’s a protest planned for Dublin in solidarity with Democracia real YA! which is to coincide with many other cities around Europe.
This Saturday 21st of May, 2pm at the Spire on O’Connell Street.
Join the Facebook event page or this one and read the manifesto.
If you speak Spanish here are live twitter feeds from Spanish [...]
Paper proposes replacement of blanket bank guarantee with guarantee for deposits only
‘Extend and pretend‘ strategy should be used to avoid paying Anglo promissory notes
“Ireland can no longer afford ‘zombie banks’, which are preventing our economy from recovering” - O’Connor
Equality think-tank TASC today launched ‘The Debt [...]
