Friday, Jan 27th 2012
GALWAY COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS
in association with
Irish Labour History Society,
Galway City Museum,
School of Humanities / History, NUI Galway
commemorates
A CENTURY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN GALWAY
8 June 2011, 7.30 pm
Town Hall Theatre
- Part of the People’s History of Galway programme -
Programme
1) The fawning and fluttering of the rulers and chatterers of These Island’s over the Queen’s ‘apology’ AS IF SHE WERE SINCERE and AS IF SHE WROTE IT HERSELF shows their amazing capacity to suspend their disbelief as long as they are allowed to be part of the pageant themselves. The Irish ruling class are [...]
Anyone trying to make sense of Ireland’s crisis, and looking for an alternative to the right-wing consensus shared by the three major parties and virtually the entire print media, is most likely to find their starting-point in the writings of Fintan O’Toole. O’Toole’s columns in the Irish Times, his regular appearance on radio and TV, [...]
I’m working on an article for The Citizen at the moment, on the general theme of ‘Is Fianna Fáil Dead?’
It’s more of a reflective piece on the development of the party since its inception 85 years ago this week, and on the contradictions between its position as a populist party with a strong working-class base, [...]
This article was originally published in China.org.cn. It is being republished here with the kind permission of the author.
Discussions between China and the European Union (EU) have speeded up during 2011. To take just the most recent events, the second China-EU Strategic Dialogue was held in Hungary on May 12-15. European Council President Van Rompuy [...]
April tax figures - not as good as they look | An Saoi - Progressive Economy
As I missed this when it was originally published at the beginning of May, and I have only got around to it now, I think its worth highlighting An Saoi’s reading of the April tax returns, which officials in the [...]
Hara Kouki of Critical Legal Thinking on Greece’s Doomed Generation…..
“Young people in Greece can no longer make ordinary life choices: they cannot plan for the present, let alone for the future. But they are told – and many of them feel – that they can’t complain. They belong, after all, to a doomed [...]
Paying for the Jobs Initiative | Gerry Hughes
Important information on the pension levy from Gerry Hughes…
"Apparently the Government discussed with the pensions industry the option of standard rating pension tax relief, as has been done for other tax reliefs. The ESRI estimates that standard rating the reliefs could yield €1 billion per annum. The TCD [...]
Visit of King George V - James Connolly (1910)
Fellow-Workers,
As you are aware from reading the daily and weekly newspapers, we are about to be blessed with a visit from King George V.
Knowing from previous experience of Royal Visits, as well as from the Coronation orgies of the past few weeks, that the occasion will [...]
Hugh Green of Punishment of Sloth provides some very helpful detail on the ¡Democracia Real YA! campaign in Spain, which saw a massive 50 city-wide demonstration last Sunday (May 15th).
He also compares the nature of the various Irish campaigns with the emphasis of ¡Democracia Real YA!
“The post-crisis ‘civil society’ initiatives -whilst differing in scope and [...]
